The Dickinson press., 1901-06-22
Stock Items.

WOrlQ.
Heavy rains are reported from both
the north and south this week. The hay
crop ought to be immense.
E. H. Kinsey has bought a carload OF
stock cattle which includes two Polled
Durham COWS at a cost of $40.
L. M. Summerville's sheep averaged
81 pounds per head which is about one
pound better than last year.
Iohn Clark has a band of lAoo ives at
his Cannon Ball ranch and reports a lamb
r of 1000 which is about the best yet.
Register A. c. McGillivray recently
sold six head of Aberdeen Angus year.
ling bulls to parties living east of the
Missouri river at 500 per head.
The Advocate of Glen Ullin thinks
that 100000 pounds of wool will be ship
ped from there this year. Dickinson
will exceed this amount by n million
pounds.
! On Wednesday ~ carloads of Montana
range horses, purchased at the Forsyth
sale, passed through the city en-route for
eastern points. These horses were in
ferior to the grade raised in this section
of the country and it is understood that
the purchasers paid from $50 to s44 per
head. They were unbroken.
]. C. F. Parker is much pleased with
his wool clip of this season. He has
1900 sheep at the Wamsley ranch and he
thinks that the wool is going to average
w pounds. or about u pound better
than last year, and the quality is certain
ly as good if not better. From I1oI ewes
Mr.. Parker finds that he has 1850 lambs.
Mr.. Wamsley took this band of 1900
about 8 months ago and his loss for this
time has been E head, mostly old ewes.
Parker Bros. have 346 cattle which are
doing as we'll as anyone could ask. They
have I2o cows which have raised them loo
calves this spring, and they will have Sc
head of fine 8 and 4-year-old beef steers
to ship this fall. Parker Bros. raise mil
let which they find to be very fine for
feeding calves in the winter. Last year
they had 50 acres in millet and cut the
crop twice, and now have about half OF
this fodder on hand in addition to some
200 tons of hay, a part of which was left
over from two years ago. The only stock
that was fed last winter was their calves
STOCK RAISING PAYS
The editor of the Jamestown Alert Wis
tied the stock show at Dickinson last
week and became very much interested
in the growing of sheep, horses and cat
tie which he thinks should be given more
attention in the valley where the farmer:
have been raising wheat almost exclu
sively. The Alert editor dated his article
at Dickinson, which reads as follows:
The stock exhibit here during the pas
week excited a great deal of interes
especially among people from the east
ern portion of the state some of whom
had an idea that the broncho is still the
leading horse On the Slope. AS a matte'
of fact the broncho is a scarce article
here. There are but few of them lief
and the number grows less year by year
This is a result of the new strains o.
blood instoduced. The broncho has beer
breed up until the result is horses of lar
ger build, fine appearance and plenty o
spirit. This has been carried on to sucl
an extent that go anywhere on the reng'
and horses superior to those raised il
Iowa and or other older states may b
: found. The animals range unherded ane
eat only the choicest so it is little wonde
that they grow to a greater size and are
| more active than the less favored ami
mails of other states which are cooped VI
in a little pasture often quite bare. Man,
of the horse owners came to the Stop
with little or no money and are no,
worth many thousand dollars. sJAf(Aos
!, who had considerable money and invest
, ed it in horses, sheep or cattle have com
out big winners as a rule. The only fail
ures have been among the deluded pei
I sons who attempted to devote their entir
e time to the raising of crops. A numbe
of the people of the last named class di:
covered their error before it was too lat
, and now can point to great herds of Cal
: tie. sheep or horses that have increase
and multiplied.
v In the more thickly settled commun
| ties creameries are being built and butte
I making has become quite a Slope indu:
try. The cattle have been improved a
have the horses and some fine herds ar
in evidence, The Aberdeen-Angu
seems to be a popular breed. They ar
a hornless variety and bring the highe:
/. prices on the market for beef. Som'
however, prefer the Hereford or som
:, other kind of beef animals. The ranch
: men do not believe in raising scrub
e The scrubs are disposed of and only tn
best COWS kept forbreeding purposes. l
it this way only cattle of good size al
raised.
Ranchmen devote their time to tn
, raising of one kind of animals. If horse
is their investment, they seldom rails
cattle OF sheep in addition. They pa
!, strict attention to the one line and max
;. the most of it.. There is no such thing ;
failure.
There are numerous people who cam
:. here Fifteen or twenty years ago wit
~ nothing and are now owners of big herd
is Harry Quinion of the Q bar ranch is a
or example. He became disguised wit
farming ID years ago-having lost all h
~, ~ money-and decided to raise horses. H
N. started in with three mares, one of whit
er; is still alive and has 500 dollars to h
by credit. Mr.. Quinion has 900 horses mt
eu and exhibited II of them at the sto,
e. show last week. Among the numb
ed was the slittle broncho mare the first
his herd. Beside her were her daughte
who were at least twice as large al