The Dickinson press., 1897-04-03
Range and Stock Notes.

Range and Stock Notes.
j. E. Phelan tells the BismarcI
Tribune that he has heard from all o
his ranches and that there are n
losses to speak of.
S. S. Sutherland: Cattle winters
good and we have 100 tons Of hay O
hand. Our neighbors in the Ba,
Lands are all right too.
Massachusetts is trying to legislat
Tuberculosis out Of cattle, and ha
appropriated 8250,O0O for its extermi
nation. Connecticut refuses to az
propriate money for a like purpose.
On Monday T. S. Underhill return
ed from Chicago, and he writes tina
he found conditions better at hi
ranches than he had expected-stocl
grazing and probably past the DANCE
point.
Through Towers & Collins 800 eve
were sold last week to Geo. Burt o.
Bohemian, consideration $3.50 ant
$1.75; 1000 head of stock cattle from
Cascade county to Chas. Baldwin'o;
North Dakota.-Stock Journal.
Joseph Hartinger dehorned sol
head of cattle on March %. TIL,
work was done in one and one hal
day, and he thinks that the cattl,
will stand the operation without
any bad effects. One hundred bee1
stock were not dehorned.
The Wool-growers of Central Wyo
ming met at Casper, March II. The
wool market already feels an upward
impulse. Commission men are offer.
ing to bond wool at Z cents and NJ
Withdrawals. Wethers command ii
some cases $3.50 shorn.-Buffalt
Bulletin.
H. c. Christensen was q happy mar
when he heard from his ranch a few
days ago. He is feeding 23O cattl,
and has lost only six head, and ha.
40 to so tons of hay on hand. Mr.
Christensen's range cattle-stronf
steers that have run out all winter
are also in good shape.
Speaking of finely bred horses
there are none better than those O
r. S. Brookings kept at his Oakdalt
Stock Farm, two miles east of Rich
ardton. Eo mas Percheron, Shir,
and B elgian stations, imported ant
graded stock, and his Is Percherol
brood mares are not for sale, as h,
prefers to raise colts for the better
market that is sure to come within
a year or two.
CIR Pendergast has been riding
the range south and finds that the pc
cent Of loss among the cattle-ove
3O0-which were taken from hi
ranch in November by a herd o
rangers is not half as large as he ha.
feared it would be. MI. Pendergas
tried to gather these cattle and &c
them home but the snow got dec
and all efforts failed. Among hi
cattle which remained at the rancl
there is no loss.
James d. Henderson, manager o
the Dayton ranches, came in from
the south Monday to confer with Mr.
Dayton. MI. Henderson report
things IN fair shape at the ranches
says the losses up to the time he left
had been about 400 altogether at tn
three ranches out of ll,075 sheep. A
one of the ranches he reported tina
they were short of hay, but hoped t.
get through without much loss nov
that the sheep could get good graz
ing.
Thomas Harrington writes tn,
Press that stock in Mercer county i
coming through in Igood shape. I
has been a long hard winter with lot
of snow, but the ranchers general!
we're we'll provided with hay. Keogl
Bros, says Mr.. Harrington, have ha!
enough to last until July. MI. Far
rington is wintering IS COWS, has 2!
calves already and has saved all bu'
two. He has been a resident Of tn
county for Is years and reports thu
past winter the toughest of all. Blu
all the same the careful stockme en-
are not having large losses.
j. X. Moody: Have not been t.
Dickinson until this week since las
fall; only got out to Medora twice al
last winter. Stock all right at m,
ranch. You see I put up hay in tn
summer-lots Of it-and I don't cal
q half ton a ton either. I don't tr,
to keep any more cattle than I kno,
I can provide for against the wors
kind of weather. and I always know
where to find every head. 1have fe'
IS cows and calves every day sine
along in November, kept them in tn
corralls. and it has taken lots of hay
Ny steers I kept rustling for a lonl
time after some people commenced
to feed and they are looking fine.
shall have 100 for market this year
l hear Of some big losses in cattle
but you can't tell much about tn
early reports.
Prices for cattle are 45 q head high
or than they have been for man,
years. This advance is not local, Blu