The Dickinson press., 1904-04-09
RANCH TALK.

tered bulls, North Dakota bred. There
are four Herefords and three Galloways,
all excellent individuals. I-I6-tt
VIM. Gardner has been losing sheep
about 3oo-from worms. He used stock
food and found that it helped. =
A Fargo man bought a car of horses at
Taylor last week, paying from $50 to
SIPS per head.
B. L. Dodge: At our ranch on Buffalo
there has been a loss of 50 sheep out of
a band of $500. Out of go cattle the
loss SO far has been 5. think my BROTH
er has wintered his stock equally as we'll.
The Japanese agents have contracted
with Washington and Oregon parties for
the delivery of 1000 horses per month for
10 months.
Frank Stone & Sons went into the
winter with 5000 sheep and have now
about 5000. This is not bad for large
bands like what they run and TAX
ing into account the severity Of the win
ter. In the March 24-25 storm they had
a loss of 900 in a pile.up.
E. G. Bishop had a heavy loss Of
sheep in his band in the breaks. The
band at his old ranch wintered we'll. q
G. w. Grove and son Denny, on the
old e. H. Pearl range, wintered their
sheep we'll.
w. R. Veigel: 1t has been a hard
winter north, but my cattle wintered by
Mr.. Sperber came through in fair shape.
F. L. Ash: At Beaver, Bowman coun-
ty, the winter has been fine for stock
We lost a hundred sheep in the last
storm, but aside from that we cannot
complain.
Word comes from the south that Ell.
i win Johnson has wintered his cattle
| without loss.
w. L. Richards and Alex Fowler have
bought of Overton Harris a thou
sand-dollar Hereford bull, "Benj. We'll
ton 4th", calved January 20. 1902. This
| splendid bull is to head their Kildeel
Mountain herd of pure bred Herefords
and will be received in Dickinson in a
few days. Richards & Fowler have the
finest, herd of registered Herefords in
the country.
want you to say through the PRESS
that l will not ship any registered bulls
in this spring as l had previously plan
ned to do. have been very busy the
} past three weeks at the ranch and could
, not possibly attend to the matter, and
further than this l find that L. Beaumont
J of Stanton has just as fine registered
Shornhorn bulls as can be found any.
where, and Massinham & Cosgrove, OF
Hartman, have equally as good Hereford
bulls, and l am sure that no ranch.
men will make a mistake in buying
from either of these herds. Thier bulls
are all registered and we'll bred.
O. P. liner.
At Gladstone S. D. Gregg has winter
ed 6 cattle with the loss of one calf.
Recently MI. Gregg lost a good horse
from a cause pronounced by Veterinarian
Mackin as lung fever, and he has others
sick.
1t is reported that many old horses,
thin in flesh, which were turned out late
in the fall have been found dead on the
prairie.
] Arthur Sands came in from the Flat
creek country near the South Dakota
line on Thursday. Sands Bros. have
wintered a large herd Of cattle with only
a 3 per cent loss. They had plenty Of
hay and a good range.
E. Z. Cook near Rainy buttes has win.
tered 1000 sheep without loss and they
are in good condition.
Geo. c. Ludolph: Our cattle have
wintered we'll in Bowman county. We
have had good grazing, probably better
than was found in the country north.
The last storm was bad and drifted some
of the cattle but ! don't think there are
| any losses to speak Of.