The Dickinson press., 1911-07-08
RANCH AND FARM.

Duluth grain experts. who were IN the
county last week. stated that South OAK
ota had practically no prospects of a
crop this year. These men were auto
ing through the Dakotas and Montana.
They did find conditions very good in
this state, but judging from government
rain reports expect to find more favor
able conditions in Montana.
W. j. Runyan The state and govern
ment experiment station a mile north
west of Dickinson has drains that give
promise of average crops. Corn, wheat
and barley look we'll. also potatoes, and
l am particularly. impressed with the
fine trees and handsome shrubbery grown
on the farm. The dry farming process
is being successfully worked out, demon
s%trating what grains are best adapted to
this locality and the best methods of
handling the land.
E. J.. ScharI The land southwest of
Dickinson that | had broken last season,
disced and double disced several times
during the summer, disced and narrowed
again this spring. gives promise of II or
IS bushels of wheat to the acre. In
fact, most people who have looked al
this Grain field this week say that it
looks good enough for ~ to 20 bushels.
This is enough to convince me that it
pays to work the soil we'll. In the first
place people as a rule do not pillow deep
enough and they should never pillow in
the fall if the land is dry as it was last
year. [ am satisfied that there is no
land in the world that will. give
greater returns for labor properly applied
than will the land in Western North
Dakota. We are experiencing an ad-
verse season for farming operations,
one that shows the poor and improper
handling of the soil in every instance,
but l am convinced that it takes less
work to produce a crop here than it does
in Iowa. expect to give up the land
business another year and to devote my
entire time to farming. l have nearly
1000 acres of new breaking in Dunn
county, a portion of which is cropped
with flax this season, and it is my in
tention to plant 500 acres of this flax
land with corn next year. Corn is a
good crop for this country and it puts
the land in fine condition for grain
crops the following season.
Portland Journal. Bred and grown to
two-year Odds in Baker county, Oregon,
shipped to North Dakota for grazing pur-
poses, sent thence to Nebraska as feeders
and finally returned to and sold in Ore
gon as beef is the history of a bunch of
steers recently received at the Union stock
yards, Portland. Joseph Teal of Portland
is the authority for the statement The |
cattle were bought by D.B. Zimmerman in
Baker county when they were two
years old, and shipped to North Dakota |
for grazing purposes. After a period of
growth there. they were sent to Nebras-
ka where they were used as feeders.
The final act in the drama was their sale
in the Omaha stockyards as beef, and
their shipment by a long rail haul of
1900 miles to Portland, where they went
to the ultimate consumer at many cents /
per. 1t has been demonstrated in Nebra- !
ska that there is a revenue of 1920 from
a quarter of section of land on which al
falfa is grown for livestock feeding. |
One small town in that state shipped
half a million dollars worth of live
stock in 1910 and it was alfalfa that did
the work. The Oregon of the future will
never ship two-year-old steers more than
1000 miles via North Dakota to Neb-
raska and later buy them back for a Sec
ond shipment of 1900 miles as beef. Her
fertile acres will grow alfalfa and with
alfalfa as a basis, the state will pro- +
duce its own beef.