The Dickinson press., 1897-02-27
Rance and Stock Notes.

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The snuw is very deep OH Powder
River, Monttna.
j. j. Coughlin: Cattle are all right
in the Bad Lands.
r. Carnahan: The grazing is get
ting to be pretty hard for sheep.
The Northern Pacific has secured
land for ample approaches to the
stock yards at Miles City.
w. j. Steele: We will get the Par
ker sheep through the winter i'll good
shape. No losses to speak of SO far.
VIM. Colgrove: Snow is deep at the
Lime Kiln ranch, but we have plenty
of hay and shelter and are not losing
any cattle.
l.. Christensen, of Belield, is win
tering 1900 ewes at his ranch on
Bull Greek. so far with slight loss.
He has plenty of hay and is feeding
IL rlgnC along.
A well-known sheepman claims to
| have overheard. as he passed the cor
raj one night. all old ram declaiming-
sThis is the winter of my discomfort"
Seven hundred sheepmen in Mon
tana own something over 2,50O,O0O
sheep. An average of $3.50. Fergus
county has 475,000 head and is the
banner sheep county of the state.
The raising of scrub horses will
never pay again. But the indication
is that the bottom price for good
horses has been reached and that
hereafter we'll bred horses of good
size will be fairly profitable.
The Montana Wool Growers asso-
citation, i'm their meeting of Feb. Is,
resolved that sheep owners in Mon
tana should contribute 81 per 1000
head of sheep to raise a fund to keep
up the fight for a sufficient tariff.
1t also favored selling wool in the
markets of this country by auction
and passed a resolution recommend
ing the London plan.-Stock Growers
Journal. Miles City.
Geo. F. Woodman writes that he
has a patent prairie fire drag which
has every appearance of working to
perfection. 1t IA he packed on a
horse and started to u fire at a mo-
ment's notice-withoutlthe %inconven.
fence of y gun, al a. and a beef.
In short it is Il beef and labor saving
apparatus. Mr.. Woodman will ex-
hibit his g fire drag at the April
meeting of the North Dakota and
| Montana stock associations.
There's a young fellow over in Wy
oming who has solved the wolf prob
lem. He is likely to take rank with
Grant Brambel of Sleepy-Eye-rotary-
engine fame AS IL Of the great dis
coyerers of the day. His scheme is to
catch q wolf or coyote and in%oculate
it with hydrophobia virus and then
turn it loose to spread the disease a.
mong its kind to its and their de-
struction. He is Emil Streitz, of
Caspar, Wyoming, and claims that
he has been "Streitzing" the beasts
| for some time with great effect.
H. G. Williams, of Billings, Mon.
tana. manager Of the Hqrlburt Land
and Cattle Co. says cattle have win.
tered we'll in his locality, and the
losses are merely nominal. The grass
Is not as good as ranchmen would
like TO see II, having been "sheeped''
too much to suit cattlemen. A good
many stock cattle have been pur-
chased, but NOT as many as II condi-
| lions had been more favorable. Pri-
ces were pretty stiff and the dry
weather of. the past few seasons tend
ed to- discourage ranchmen. The
wolves are doing lots Of damage, but
the crop is not increasing. A boun-
ty of So is paid by the state and IS
additional by stockmen, but the
brutes are foxy and keep we'll out of
the range of the hunters guns.-Ex.
The statistics of the export trade
of the United States in animals and
animal products for the past eight
years makes interesting reading.
The great gains In the exports of live
animals have been with horses, mules
and sheep. In 1889 the exports of
horses were 3,748 head, and the aver.
age of the four years. 1889 to 1892,
inclusive, was 1896. In 1895 the ex-
ports of horses reached 25,126. with
an average for the four years. l80a
to 1896. Inclusive, OF 1881. The
number Of .'leep exported in 1889
was l2s,s52.jy6d the average fol the
four years, 1889 to 1892, vas 7e,070.
In 1895 the exports of sheep reached
the remarkable number of 4ol.50
and the average for the four years.
1893 to 1895, was 2e8, 730. The ex.
ports of fresh beef have increased
from 1877, 895, 3ol lbs. in 1889 to 224
783,225 lbs. in 1895.
On Tuesday, says a Cody City
Wyo., speciA of recent date, A. j
Legg, who has a ranch near this
place, had an exciting experience
with a buffalo. Mr.. Legg was riding
the range looking for stock and while
crossing a clearing in a little park
saw a buffalo. He at once gave chase
and succeeded in roping tho animal
His horse was a trained cow-ponJ
and stopped as soon rs the rope was
.round the animals neck. He wa!