The Dickinson press., 1906-02-03
RANCH AND FARM.
C.E rrask went west this week to
look up the price Of stock.

Taxidermist Dodd has some fine deer
heads on exhibition at Mcdonald &
fcmroy's drug store. They are for sale.
Inquire for prices. I1-4-tf
1t begins to look as though nothing
less than four-pounds. fora dollar will
meet the ideas of the wool growers for
1906 clip.
w. H. Denny has resigned as cashier
of the Williston bank. He is the party
wanted by Montana authorities in con-
nection with horse stealing.
Edwin Johnson was in last Saturday
from IS miles southwest. He is getting
along without help this winter and re.
ported his cattle as doing well and so
far having been fed very little hay.
E. E. Cook: The weather is fine and
the sheep are out grazing every day.
There is scarcely the natural loss, l
keep the lambs out and feed them once
a day. think they do better that way.
Prot. Shepherd: LET as many farmers
as possible get pure registered sires of
good constitution and quality to lead
their herds and locks and North Dakota
will soon be as noted for its live stock
as it is now for its wheat and flax"
The department of agriculture shows
the importance Of the sheep industry in
North Dakota by the report that in 1904
there we're 0 2,28o in the state, and this
is not taking into ccoun the many
thousands which are brought into the
state each fall and winter from the west
to be fattened for the South St. Paul
market.
John Gunwall: At our ranch IL miles
north OF Taylor on Deep creek we are
feeding our cattle n foddcring a dav.
We have 8 or 10 inches Of snow and
seem to be in the snow belt this year.
Our cattle get a good deal Of grazing
nevertheless and are looking we'll.
December and January have been good
months Tor stockmen.
DR.. Tracy: There are more good
horses in the western part OF this state
than in any other section of North
America. Montana has been about
cleaned out and this state offers the
only field for buyers. AS an evidence
Of the scarcity Of horses, attention is
called to the fact that several carloads
OF wild, unbroken horses were sold in
Dickinson last fall at an average price
of SIPS. Never before in the history Of
the country have such horses brought
anything like such a figure.
Prof. Thomas Shaw, for many years
with a Minnesota government expert
ment station, was asked at the live stock
convention in Fargo last month his
opinion of the best breeds Of cattle for
North Dakota and his answer was this:
"There are four classes OF beef cattle.
The Shorthorns are the larger cattle;
the Angus cattle develop faster; the
Herefords are a rather hardy stock, and
can rough it perhaps better than the
two preceding bloods; the hardest stock
of all is the Galloway, and l believe this
class Of stock Is, perhaps, the best for
this climate"
S. Sedore, located 3 miles from South
Heart, is wintering a band of 2,ooo
sheep, including 1000 lambs. 1t is not
usual to run a large band of lambs with
sheep, but Mr.. Sedore says that the
lambs are taught to Craze and in this
way do better than they would if handled
by themselves. He folders his flock
only in the morning and has had a loss
of but IS or I6 since last fall. There
has probably been more snow in the
locality of the Sedore ranch than in
many other parts, but the weather has
been unusually favorable otherwise, and
Mr.. Sedore is we'll satisfied. He has
$50 tons of hay on hand and could ieed
all the time until spring if necessary.
!. N. Town, located in Bowman
county for the past 5 years, has sold hi:
cattle, us head, and horses to J. ]
Marshall, who recently came out frcn
the east. The price paid for the cattle
was $50 per round, calves thrown in
MI. Town took his homestead within
two miles of the present Site OF Still
water, but at the time he engaged ii
stockraising there were no indication!
of settlement other than now and then
rancher, in all the vast area in Bowman
county. Mr.. Town made we'll raising
stock, and had a large number o
natives in his herd, but it seemed t,
him that the settlers would interfere will
his heretofore free land grazing and S,
he sold.
From our purchase of nearly half
million acres of western North Dakoti
land three years ago, we have sold al
WI owned in Hettinger county an,
about all we had in Stark and centra
eastern Billings counties (about thre
hundred thousand acres.) In anothe
part of the PRESS we list description c
the part sections of scattered lands W