Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-09-25


age farmer to follow the best meth
DDS and that the information that
will benefit the average farmer will
be of untold value to the man that
thinks and observes But they need
and want information.
After leaving Bertram Lein's to
the south and west lies a good coun-
try and we'll farmed but so many
were away from home that the ter
ritory will have to be covered again.
Shorthorn Cattle. 49,,
Theodore Torgerson took a home
stead ON section 2-140-75 and has
been putting in some hard work in
j., making improvements. After a resi-
:. dence of year and half he has
about seventy . acers broken upon
which he is raising feed for his cat
tie as he does not raise grain to sell.
He was hauling the manure out on
the land and says that he finds that
manure is one of the most valuable
products on the farm. Also, he finds
that some times grain crops are pref
ty short but that there is always
crop of grass on the prairies and
that if man takes can of cream
to town as he goes that he need new
er. have the merchant charge the
purchase to account. y ''t
When asked if Jersey and other
pure milk strains of cattle. paid said
most assuredly but the dual pur-
pose COW suited his needs better as
he could keep the steer calves until
grown and make a profit and that in
a country with so much feed that
beef was one of the paying products
as we'll as milk. And for his needs
nothing would equal milk strain
of Shorthorns. Mr.. Torgerson has
just bought nice quarter in the
adjoining section and is going to
feed and milk more roam shorthorn
COWS. f.... ~, II. r.E,s.
J. H. Yackey has good improve
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section just described and he too is
a believer in the value of the COW.
Mr.. Yackey says that old ways of
farming as used down east will not
do here and that while the land is
rich the Russian or Finlander is the
only man that is getting rich farm
ing and that he prospers because he
uses mthods adapted to the coun-
try and that other people must do
the same or pay the. penalty. But
dry farming and the COW would solve
the problem and asks for all the in
for nation available along that line.
; A Beautiful Sight.
Just little north of Mr. Yackey's
was beautiful sight. Hundreds of
white wild geese were circling
around as If going to light and as
the sun was shining directly against
: them the color was something ex-
; tremely beautiful and as they made
numerous evolutions in the air the
sight was one to gladen the heart
of any lover of nature or the beau
tifuI.
Dan Torgerson, brother to Theo-
dore, lives on section ten in this
township and grows corn and milks
COWS. Next year he is going to plant
) quite an acreage in white cap yellow
dent corn as from his experience in
corn growing he feels sure of a pro
fit and he wants the feed for his
COWS. -4....
Helmer Helgerson lives on top OF
n the divide, just before reaching the
beautiful valley north of the hills
t in section 24-141-75. His place is
n new yet but he has some of the best
s flax in the country and the low
l. ground in these hills are producing
e crops and grass to a degree that Ii
o surprising. ~a#& Ts
It Andrew Anderson lives over in sec
d ton fourteen in the next TOWNSHIP
G north. His farm is quite rolling, bu'
re the land is rich and the fax a good
e crop. S's 'R. 5$aS
l. ~ An Early Settler.
n About six years ago ]. w. Prathel
le settled on his present location in sec
e ton 22-141-75 and was the first sett
u Ter in the township. At that tim,
Y the Lands ranch S. e. few mile
s. and one man in the next TOWNSHIP
c west were the only people in tina
/ entire country. Mr.. Prather's faith
8 er was a book binder and in his boy
'e hood a more populous country wa
" his home. But he came to his pres
4 emit home and after the longest Ell
II perience of any one farming in tina
et township, or in fact a number o
Al townships, he is fully persuaded tina
le the country Is well suited to farm
cling and stock raising but that TIL