The Dickinson press., 1906-03-31
n N FARM.

Sigard Engvold and Paul Overle
have formed a partnership in the
sheep business at Oakdale.
P. F. Berringer of Berringer Bros.
made a trip to Cakes this week to get
a car load of hogs.
Nat Bradley, the Canadian buyer, has
purchased some 500 horses for June
delivery. He returned a short time ago
from the Camp Crook country.
]. B. Stoddard purchased in Grafton
ten head of Aberden-Angus, four
registered heifers and three bulls.
They will be delivered about April I.
Geo. Ultschak, a thrifty farmer living
10 miles southeast of Dickinson, has
increased his holdings by the purchase
of the Martin Andor farm at slI.5o per
acre.
Jim Wilson: We have led quite a little
hay the past winter to our cattle, but we
consider that it has been a fine season
for stock1nen. Cattle are looking we'll
and there have been no losses to speak
of.
Wool has sold at the opening OF the
season on advance contracts at u cents,
and one rancher in western North
Dakota, is said to have contracted his
entire clip at 28c. A price around
about 25c is generally looked for by
we'll posted sheepmen.-Glendive
Review.
l.. Nollet is up from Saltwater,
Minnesota for a week or two. Mr..
Nollet shipped 100 lambs and some
calves from his Sentinel Butte ranch
last fall. These have been fed on his
large farm at Saltwater and the lambs
are now ready for market but as the
price is a little off MIR. Nollet will hold
them probably until about May /. He
is entirely independent since they are
on his W farm with plenty OF hay and
screenings at hand.
Mandan Pioneer: c. F. Massingham
sold a Car load of two-year-old regis
tered Hereford heifers to b. J. Broers of
Mason City, Iowa, who owns a farm
eight miles from that city. The stock
was shipped and will be put on SIS an
acre land as an investment. Surely this
should be a lesson for North Dakota
farmers. Mr.. Broers says that Hereford
cattle are making Iowa farmers a little
more money than any other breed as
they convert about everything grown on
the land into money, and a little quicker
than any other stock, and they find that
the northern bred Herefords are the best
for Iowa climate.
This week T. +. Roberts delivered a
car Of horses at Belfeld for P. A. Will
liams and E. D. Stokley. of Towner,
N. D. The price paid for this a of
stock was $4,000. MI. Roberts will re-
place with a car Of registered Coach and
Percheron horses and is now in the east
for this purpose. He reasons that there
is just as much money to be made from
a bunch of 40 or 50 registered breeding
mares as from several hundred of the
ordinary range horses. The settlers are
coming in on every side and Mr.. Roberts
is wisely making preparations to narrow
down his range operations, but this will
not necessarily mean a reduction of his
annual income.
1t will be of interest to many new
settlers to know that Billings county is
under the fence law. The estray law
was published in the PRESS on March
10, but it was not stated in connection
with the publication that the voters of
Billings county, at a general election
some years ago, abolished the herd law
This means that any person in Billings
county who crops land must fence the
crop in order to protect it from stock
that may be running at large. So far as
the PRESS knows, Billings is the only
county in the state which has abolished
the herd law. This county has been
used more as a grazing country than for
farming and the fence law has been best
adapted to the majority. Whereas, in
Stark and other counties of the state,
the herd law seems best adapted to the
needs of the majority. The people
living in the unorganized counties of
Hettinger. Bowman, Dunn and Nc
Kenzie are within the operation of the
general herd law, which means that the
stockmen are liable for damages which
their iocks and herds may do to un-
fenced crops between April | and No.
vember I.
Charles S. Haigh, representa- g Justice
Bateman & Co. of Philadelphia was in
the city Thursday looking over the
wool situation. His firm is not con-
tracing in advance as a year ago. The
growers are holding for twenty-five
cents which, from the buyers standpoint,
is too high. P. H Rumble. will repre-.
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