Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-06-19
SOME WOOLLY EXTRACTS.

Dy reason OF the almost universal SUCCESS
attained by those who bring to the bust.
ness the ordinary prudence required of
any paying enterprise. The exchange
man has run through some of the papers
received and finds the testimony uniform
ly favorable. Increase, weight of fleece,
quality of wool-all are satisfactory.
They go to show that the prairies of the
state are admirably adapted for wool
growing and the time is coming
when North Dakota will be recog-
nized as one of the leading wool produce
ing states of the union. The excerpts are
not confined to one locality, but range
from the Turtle mountains on the north
to the South Dakota line; from the Red
River of the east to Montana. Being all
based on actual result absolute credence
can be given them. Look at the follow
ing facts:
Grand Forks Plaindealer: Mayor
richardson is home from his Mouse
River ranch and a Plaindealer represen-
tative called on him for statistics. His
1000 sheep have been sheared and the
wool weighed. The heeces average 81
lbs. How is that fer a big flock? He
has already shipped a car load of wool
to Chicago. Has 1000 lambs, did not
lose a sheep in last weeks storms,
though they had been sheared. Mr..
Richardson gave us the following item:
Peter Gilburg, who four years ago
bought some sheep of Mr.. Richardson,
and has now 500, gets an average of over
IL lbs. per fleece! He bought grade
merlnos, ewes, got some blooded Cots
wolds, and now has wethers that weigh
400 lbs.
rHunter Eye: "Sheep shearing'' is now
is full blast at Hon. w. w. Boards, an9
his flock of 400 are yielding up their
heeces as fast as three men can work the
shears. The average weight per fleece
SO far, is about eight and one-half
pounds, which is rather more than was
expected.
jamestown Alert: "a young farmerin
Logan county has blessed the day he
bought Sheep" said william Dwyer of
Napoleon, yesterday. The young man I
refer to, Grin Parks, has been for five or
six years trying to get ahead on his farm.
His crops have been successive failures,
and although he worked hard, econo.
mixed, and was level headed in all his
ventures, he found himself last fall worse
OFT thar ever. In order to borrow money,
some $500, he was compelled to take
sheep. He got both of the Lloyds of
jamestown. He got 260 sheep, among
them thirty wethers and about twenty
five lambs. He has kept the flock during
the winter, having had plenty of hay, and
the increase is such that if the price of
lambs and wool hold as at present, he
can sell enough lambs to pay for his
flock in one years returns"
Ransom County Gazette: Col. G. Z
Tuller, of Owasco Farm, in an interview
with The Gazette says: My 68 ewes
produced l3l lambs, q of which died
(mostly the weaklings of the twins and
triplets.) The wool clip produced on an
average II $40 pounds. I sent a sample
of the wool to a Minneapolis firm and
hey quote me a price of 17@19c per
pound for it; they say. however, that
eastern parties who could use so fine a
grade of wool might give more for it.
One fleece weighed nearly 16 pound. I
have now % lambs weighing IS pounds
and better; one lamb born Feb. IA
weighs 49112 pounds. I can show you on
that sheep transaction Of mine a clean
$500 over and above all expenses. I am
going to put in 300 more sheep this fall,
and | am now building a shed for them,
300x30 feet. IL had 500 sheep I wouldn't
care whether I got a crop or not. I can
clear $4,000 a year on 500 sheep and 1
know it. All I fed my flock last winter
was eight tons of hay mixed with two
loads of millet. I calculate the 100
sheep have not cost me over $50 to win
ter, all told.
Devils Lake Inter Ocean: T. P.
Thompson, who lives about five miles
northeast of town, started in the sheep
business six years ago with three ewes.
Not a very large beginning, some may
say, but the result shows what sheep
will do for the farmer. After selling
twenty sheep, his flock has grown to ff-
ty-ive head. He sheared them not long
ago and the average clip was eight
pounds of wool, which wal sold for II
cents a pound. He had twenty-three
ewes this spring and they now have thir-
ty-two lambs, an increase of nearly $50
per cent, That beats loning money. Mr..
Thompson states that he was not COM
! PEELED to feed his sheep last winter until
after Christmas. It takes about the
same amount of feed for five sheep that
is required for one COW. Twenty tons of
hay, he thinks, will carry his present
flock through the severest winter in good
shape. He has fifty acres fenced in with
a four-strand barb wire fence, and says
it affords ample pasturage for his sheep
as we'll as twelve head of cattle, until az
ter harvest, when he turns them into the
grain fields. Mr.. Thompson says he
wants to add 100 head to his flock of
sheep and then, with his cattle and a
garden, he doesn't care whether he raises
another crop or not.
Valley City Times-Record: We learn
that sheep shearing has begun pretty
generally in this county. Frank P.
Wright says his feeces will average "
pounds each, and those who have ex-
amined the heeces say it is unusually
fine wool.
Valley City Times Record: MI. Moore
of st. Louis, representing a large wool
commission house, was in the city this
week, inspecting wool. He says the clip
of E. P. Wright is the best wool he has
seen in the two Dakotas-and is worth
1896.
C%arrinoton Jndenondant. p n Mr.