St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-15
THE DAKOTAS
JAMES FARMERS HAPPY.
The Wheat Is Little Short, But They
Have Other Reliable Crops.
SOME OF THESE ARE NOTED
By the Correspondent as Sheep, Hogs,
Cattle and Gilt-Edged But
ter.
Special TO the Globe.

special 10 the OlODe.
JAMESTOWN, July 14.-Notwithstand-
ing the distressing dearth of rain this
season, the farmers of StutSman county
are prosperous and happy. This is due
to the fact that they have already begun
to place their faith in other industries
than that of raising wheat alone. Your
correspondent has investigated this
matter thoroughly, having visited every
congressional township i'll the country,
and finds the situation Unexpectedly
gratifying. A few facts tending to-
wards substantiating this roseate view
of the present and future condition of
the agricultural class in this immediate
vicinity will doubtless be of some inter
est and benefit to your unknown thou
sands of Dakota readers.
The most general effort to break
away from the wheat disaster has been
in the line of
SHEEP RAISING,
and of the fifty or more farmers inter
viewed who have tried the experiment,
many of them in small way. not one
but who recommends the industry as
profitable. E. F. Horn reports that his
flock of 600 wintered in fine condition
near Corinne. The lamb increase has
been excellent and the wool crop en-
tirely satisfactory. Another farmer, l..
W. Rhodes, near Eldridge, makes an
equally favorable report in general, and
kindly furnishes these figures in par
ticular. Last summer he bought
ninety-nine ewes, which cost him
1925 head. They were from one
to three years old. He kept them
on wild grass until winter, when he shell
%ara1 ond faJ fba1n how onh naf
They ate both with impartiallty, and
this spring we're as fat as peacn-Orchard
shoatS. The cost of wintering can not
be given in dollars and cents. The eX-
penditure was in labor alone, which
could not have been otherwise en-
ployed. The lamb increase was 1O3.
The wool from this years Shearing,
amounting to 726 pounds, has just been
marketed and Melted the owner S123.5S.
He now has over 200 sheep, and next
spring will have SO wethers for sale,
which will bring in this home market
from So to 81 each. 1t doesn't re-
Quire the services of an expert to de-
tect the profits in the deal. Mr.. Lamp
son, who has ranch near Windsor,
makes a similar report. with 400 head
as basis upon which to make the cal
culation. And so it goes all over the
country.
Their. too, no one can drive over the
prairies without beng impressed with
the vast increase OF the
NUMBER OF CATTLE
which has been taking place during
the past two or three years. The Salu-
tary result of this Is the calling into eX-
istence of creameries and cheese facto-
rieS. The creamery at this place has
resumed successful operations under
the efficient management of G. p
Smith, and is now doing plenty of,
business. Mr.. Brady, the butter maker,
has turned out an average of 7G0 pounds
per day. The recent rains and growth
of grass account for the increase in
cream receipts. Four teams are occu-
pied gathering the cream, and the
routes are getting more extended.
Fourteen cents gauge is paid. The
butter is packed in tirkins, or put up by
O COMPRISING machine into pound
packages, branded with the Riverside
Creamery brand, and packed in brine.
In specially constructed box, these
packages are safely shipped. The price
received at the depot is Is cents pound
Most of the butter goes to
- OREGON AND rWASHINGTON, e.
although Steward Schwellenbach. of
the asylum, expects to contract for and
use about 1000 pounds a month. The
articles of incorporation of the Rio
Cheese company were received from
the territorial secretary Wednesday.
Shares in the capital stock have been
placed at $40. and nearly every farmer
in radius of fifteen miles has become
a stakeholder, and is therefore inter-
ested in the success of the enterprise.
The incorporatOrS, James Buchanan,
Owe Johnson, Frank DOWd,J. j. LeiSch,
c. W. Kurtz, o. Christopherson and
William Sturgis, are all farmers living
in the vicinity of Rio, station on the
jamestown Northern branch of the
Northern Pacific. The product from
over 800 COWS has been promised, and
number of farmers are making ar
rangements to trade horses for cows
and do less blowing and more milking.
OF course the Institution will be a sue
cess. A move is also on foot to enable
WHEAT GROWERS
to realize something like fair price for
their peerless No. 1 hard. 1t will be
remembered that q. Ste CrOiX, an En-
glish gentleman, attempted to organize
an elevator company in America last
fall, but didn't make very great prog
ress. He has written letter to friend
in this city that he will be in Duluth
sometime during the present month,
when he will be prepared to show the
wheat-growers of North Dakota COM
plete system of connections, which will
bring them into direct connection with
buyers for English millers. He says
they are getting anxious about the re-
ported shortage in our hard wheat crop
and the excellencies of which having
become generally known they are de-
termined to get their share of it.