The Dickinson press., 1904-07-02

This week Thomas Fowler bought his
4th car of horses at Dickinson and ship |
ped to Casselton where the Fowler Farm
Co. operate, having one of the best farms
in he state. For two years now this
firm has been buying and selling from
200 to 800 horses each year. They buy
mostly unbroken horses, take them to
their farm where they are handled and
worked for a rear and then sold to Win
n!peg buyers The firm owns 10 sections
OF land and 1t takes a great many horses
to do their farm work and at the end OF
a years training a horse is we'll fitted
for market The nrn rest their wheat
land BY planting It 10 orn They have
a section planted this year and will feed
the corn on the sock 70 their horses
during the coming winter. Mr.. Fowler
is pleased with the class OF horses raised
at Dickinson and will visit this marke,
again
Frank Janisch has sold his cattle to H.
W. Tippier OF Gorham-
Wool has been rolling in at a lively
rate this week and lower Willard street
has been blocked with loaded wool wa
| gons much Of the time. The fore part
OF the week the frequent rains made
much trouble for the wool teams.
Some wool sales in Dickinson the
past week: Emanuel Barth to Suddards
at lSHc, VIM. Armstrong to Meadows at
l8Kc, Koesel & Co. to Suddards at lSc,
Gilbert of S. ID. to Jackson at a little
better than NC, Sexton of S. D. to Sud-
dards at a little better than ISc, Schnell
Of Richarton to Suddards at l7c, Jim
Dobson sold at I74c, W. c. Hecht sold
1 aSeo The NJ 90 md 7 Th0-,e eo1I ~
the same figure, also Crosthwaite & Met
calf.
The first trainload OF the Arnett, Jef-
teries and Richards cattle we're unloaded
at Hebron the first of the week and were
driven north. There will be eleven train.
loads in all.
In Montana the cattlemen are just
waking up to the fact that scab is pre-
valent all over the state and that an
order has been issued by the secretary
Of agriculture requiring that all cattle be
dipped before being shipped from the
state. On Tuesday a mass meeting was
held in Helena for the purpose of select.
ing a committee to 60 to Washington to
see if the order could not be recinded.
The order was issued as the result OF
an investigation made by DR.. Hickox OF
the bureau of animal industry, but the
Stockgrowers Journal says it is unpop.
ular, and adds:
Some cattlemen do not anticipate
serious consequences because of this
order, stating that, in their opinion. dip
ping will no set the cattle back materi.
ally. They say an average steer will
commence eating again in two days after
being dipped and that as the cattle
must be rounded up anyway for shipment
no loss will ensue On that account. The
main expense will be in building the
dipping plants, in providing the dip and
having the work done.
Doctor Hickox was asked by the Hele.
ne Independent. why the order requiring
the dipping was made. and he told how
prevalent cattle scab was in the north.
west. 1.-THE ORDER" said Doctor Hickox
"applies to every state in which the scat
exists to such an extent as to say the
state is afflicted With it. OF course in a
state where there are isolated cases ii
cannot be said the disease is general
But in Montana there are but four esun
ties in which 1t is not prevalent. For
purpose OF Investigation our men made
an examination on the ranges last winter
and we know in what brands the disease
is prevalent. The order has stirred UP the
cattlemen, but they had warning. Las,
spring | told them Of the conditions, and
my understanding was that they would
take measures to eradicate the disease
but found they took the warning coolly
my. territory. A part of Wyoming is
North Dakota the cattlemen took hold
of the matter in a prompt and intelligen,
manner, and the result is that BY Augus1
over 100000 head Of cattle will have
been dipped twice. The trouble is
Montana is that there is no state law re-
quiring the dipping, and the national
government has had to take the matter
in hand. If the cattlemen will live up tc
their promises, the scab can be cleaned
out of Montana in two years. am sure
one year will not do it Ranges are at.
fected, SO are corrals, and it will take
two years to clean them"
"How do you account tor the prevail.
ence in the state?" the doctor was asked
any Investigations have convinced
me-" said the doctor, "that infection is
due to the use Of imported and we'll bred
bulls. l have found that before bulls
were imported into the state from the
east for the purpose of improving the
herds there was no cattle scab, or mango
as some cali it, and it has also been dem,
onstrated as result of our inquiries
that in every case where it has been no.
ticed in a herd the owner, asked whep he
first noticed it, has put the date aftefth
use Of the imported bulls. Down In
Utah I had a sample case. Two men
who were rivals al TIE 3ajir for the premi:
,ums sent east for bulls. They came and
both of them were found to have scas.
di snss only IS to va. SXip 70 s tse ts sni S9sGt'y e e. ;sas
the disease will contaminate the cprrals
where they are unioaded to be fed, aad
they will also contaminate the pens at
Chicago, or wherever they are marketed.