The Dickinson press., 1910-12-10
RANCH AND FARM.

FARMERS-Haul your coal from Miss
ouri Slope Brick & Tile Co. mine, price
sl.5o Der ton. 7-3o-tf
We pay high price for hides & furs, sell
guns, traps cheap. Northwestern Hi e
& Fur Co, Minneapolis, MINI. 9-z4tf
W. j. Motley had 1, 700 bushels Of
wheat from 100 acres which is a good
yield for any ear He threshed z, 400
bushels of flax. but. he had some fields
which did not comfy up to his expecta-.
tions on yield. This was due to the
fact that he seeded the ground too early.
A field seeded q month later yielded at
the rate Of II bushels to the acre.
Edward Kirk is still in the sheep BUSH
ness away out in the southeastern part
of Hettinger county. not so very far from
Showers. He has /, 500 sheep and is
practically alone in the business. In
fact. he says it is a little lonely at
times out herding sheep and watching
This year the farmers did not get a big
crop out that way but it was an off
year.
A dispatch from the Belle Fouche
country has this to say about stock ship
ment: with the shipping season for
live stock practically closed, railroad
officials and stockmen are commencing
to figure m q new year. While the
shipments of this year have been much
heavier than heretofore, they were not
nearly as heavy as was anticipated last
summer when the extreme drought made
it certain that q number of the
large companies would 60 out of bust
ness. Figures given out by the railroad
show that to date there has been Z, 075
cars of stock shipped out of here, as
compared with 1. COG TO the same period
last year, while the Northwestern rail-
road points divisions west of Long Pine.
Neb., which includes the Casper divi-
esion, sent out 10. $50 cars, which is
2, 600 cars greater than in 1909. Even
with these large shipments, there is
little material decrease in the amount
of stock on the range this winter or the
number of stockmen still in the business
in this section and it is estimated that
there are today from 5000 to 8. 600 head
of stock held back from shipment, that
earlier in the season it was intended to
send to market. 1t is now declared by
local stockmen that there will be larger
and better shipments next year than
ever
Richardton News Peter Gress, an
old time sheep rancher of this place,
has sold out the last of his sheep, and
this year, as a side line, he put some
of his land in crop. The result has
been so satisfactory that he will never
have another flock of sheep. He has
marketed flax to the amount of ST.
200. 90, and 81, 900. 90 worth of wheat,
and still has on his farm enough wheat
and flax to bring him 81. 500 more, in
Guiding a lol of fine seed wheat which
should bring more than market price.
This is a total of Sc. 800, aside from his
sheep business. and is probably as much
as he ever made in a single year from
sheep. Gress has a large blowing outfit
and will have about a 1, 900 acres seed
ed next spring. He says there is more
gold under the prairie sod than there
ever was on top. Although he has a
comfortable farm home and abundance
of everything around it, he has pur-
chased a house in town for the winter.
The idea of making a big years profit
in six months is new to him, and he is
impatient to get his piow started again
in the spring.