The Dickinson press., 1891-06-20
(mostly the weaklings of the twins and
triplets) The wool clip produced on an
average III $40 pounds. 1 sent sample

l1uoollS Iuo WohhlllRS Ol Uuo GWluS uQ(
triplets) The wool clip produced on al
average IL $40 pounds. 1 sent sampl,
of the wool to a Minneapolis firm and
hey quote me price of 17@19c PEI
pound for it; they say. however, tha
eastern parties who could use so fine .
grade of wool might give more for it
One fleece weighed nearly 16 pound.
have now % lambs weighing 35 pounds
and better; one lamb born Feb. IA
weighs 49, pounds. | can show you OF
that sheep transaction of mine clean
$500 over and above all expenses. | am
going to put in 300 more sheep this fall
and am now building a shed for them
30Ox3O feet. If l had 500 sheep l wouldn't
care whether l got crop or not. [ can
clear S2,5O a year Oh 500 sheep and l
know it. All | fed my flock last winter
was eight tons of hay mixed with two
loads Of millet. l calculate the lO1
sheep have not cost me over $50 to win
ter, all told.
Devils Lake Inter Ocean: L. p
Thompson, who lives about five miles
northeast of town, started in the sheep
business six years ago with three ewes.
Not 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 fiji.
ty-tive head. He sheared them not long
ago and the average clip was eight
pounds of wool, which was sold for II
cents Il pound. lie 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. MIR.
Thompson states that he was not COM
PEELED to feed his sheep last winter until
after Christmas. 1t 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 fonr-strand barb wire fence, and says
it affords ample pasturage for his sheep
as we'll as twelve head of cattle, until af-
ter harvest, when he turns them into the
grain fields Mr.. Thompson says he
wants to add 10O 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 i'll this county. Frank p.
Wright says his tleeces will average Y 5
pounds each, and those who have ex-
amined the tleeces say it is unusually
fine wool.
Valley City Times-Record MIR. Moore
of st. Louis, representing IL large wool
commission house, was in the city this
week, inspecting wool. lie says the clip
of Il. y. Wright is the best wool he has
seen in the two Dakotas and is worth
1890.
Darlington Independent: 7. ID. Nc
kenzie informs lis that the increase of
lambs from his flock of sheep this year
is 100 per cent. Captain Warren of Lar
rabee sheared yearling buck last
Monday, whose fleece weighed eighteen
pounds.
Northwest News: Mayor Richardson's
1000 sheep have been sheareu and the
ileeces averaged 81 lbs. His lambs did
not suffer any from the late rains.
Bottlneau Free Lance: We were pres
ent when William Dinwoodie sold the
wool from his flock of sheep Il few days
since, and the average weight per fleece
was IA LIS pounds.
Church's Ferry Sun: Bunker Nore
of Minnewaukan informs one of tn,
Suns news cleaners that the sheep put
out on shares by Il. Ashley Mears have
multiplied over 100 per cent, the small
est increase from any one band being Z;
per cent.
Devils Lake Inter Ocean: Another
farmer who has become convinced that
there is money in sheep is Frank Rutten
who lives about ten miles northeast of
town. Last fall he purchased sitxty-two
head, forty-four of them being aged ewes
and the remainder lambs He finished
shearing his flock last week and Oh Mon
day was in the city with the wool-54E
pounds, an average of nearly nine
pounds head, including the lambs
One yearling sheared twelve pounds OF
wool. His ewes are not through lamb.
ing yet, but the average percentage OF
increase to date is 115 per cent. Mr.
Rutten hasn't hau Il loss since he p,lr.
chased the sheep. lie hasn't paid out q
dollar for feed, and he says that half Il
dozen COWS would have required more
care and attention than he has given
these sheep.
Fargo Republicans: w. Kirby, of
Mapleton, was in this morning with siS
tleeces, taken from full Cotswold ewes
that weighed 10S pounds, or eighteen
pounds to a tleece-and two of the ewes
are only yearlings.
Turtle Mountain Star: James Hanni
has finished shearing his flock of sheep
and informs us that the clip was on al
average of II { pounds to the fleece.
Mandan Pioneer: Sheep men are feel
ing exceedingly happy over the pros
pective results of the lamb and WOO
crop.