The Dickinson press., 1911-06-24
RANCH AND FARM.

recent rains have figured to the farmers
of Dawson county.
A Glendive paper says: Out on the
Berry ranch is some winter rye which is
now five feet and five inches in height,
and alfalfa two feet and eight inches.
Glendive Review: Wool sales con-
tinue to be made. Prices are not always
public, but they are now ranging around
10 cents. with evidently better demand
than usual.
hettinger County Herald: The large
black, pure bred Percheron stallion,
belonging to Geo. Gardner, died Sunday
night from collie. Cub was a valu-
able horse and was purchased recently
in Wisconsin and brought here at q
great expense, and the loss means con-
siderable money to George.
A wholesale horse stealing venture
was nipped in the bud by Stock Inspec-
tor Roberts of the TT. Yates agency at
Mclaughlin, June 3, and resulted in
the arrest of Leo Bruigiere, who pleaded
guilty and is now serving a term of a
year at Bismarck. When arrested
Bruigiere vas loading the horses at Nc
Laughlin, having sold the bunch to Geo.
Kel]um, formerly of Mandan, who
had arranged to ship the horses to
Wisconsin. One of the horses stolen
belonged to Robert Wilcox. 1t is said
that Kellum is in no way implicated in
the theft.
Andrew Swanson. a sheepherder of
Reeder, was killed by lightning last
week. THE Big Swede.' as he was
commonly called. was about As years
old and had worked in that section
about nine years, the first three of
which was in the employ Of Levi Dodge.
since then he worked Q couple of years
for the Bar II outfit and since then for
Mattson. He had no family, having
been divorced from his wife years ago
He is said to haveb cen we'll educated.
Rhame Review: C. F.. Garbush has
been at work with his steam rig for
some time on the section he bought neal
Billings. He will soon lave 400 acres
broken and in flax. Besides this. he has
considerable flax IN his other places
south of town, and put in nearly 600
acres of wheat this spring. Altogether
he will have in the n~eighborhood of
1. 200 acres in crop this year. He has
his own breaking rig and threshing ma
chine, and from present indications, his
thresher will be as busy in the fall as
his breaking outfit has been this spring.
Marmarth Mail: c. P. Allison. the
genial rancher on the Missouri. has been
busy this week gathering in his wool
crop. The shearing camp of Is, men
started in last week and from there will
60 to the pens on Coyote Creek near
Rhame. A good shearer will relieve. a,
sheep of its fleece in five minutes and
will average 100 head a day, catching
the sheep and tying the fleece. Two or
three men are generally kept busy PEN
ming the sheep and turning out the
sheared ones while two men take care of
the fleece, packing it in large sacks of
300 to 400 pounds apiece. The feeces
average close to eight pounds this year
and Mr.. Allison is well pleased with
his wool crop.
According to the Pioneer, Mott has
received but an inch and a half of rain
during the spring and summer. or for
the entire growing season up to June
9th. People who have lived in North
Dakota a few years know what this
means so far as crops are concerned.
Under favorable conditions, from June
9th until late in the season, a good,
crop of flax can be grown but where
farmers have plowed up whsat fields
and re-seedcd there is grave doubts as
to the result. Here is what the Pioneer
said last week. observer Upland re-.
ported an inch rainfall al Mott which
totalled an inch and a half for last
week. The rains went into the earth
from six to eight inches in depth and
has caused the grain to terminate and
shoot out of the earth with great rapid
ity. Grain that has lain dormant for
weeks and weeks has taken root and
made wonderful progress in the mean
time. The grain that was up and at q
standstill for lack of moisture and good
growing weather, has taken OH a new
lease of life and is growing rapidly.
The flax growers have been very busy
the past week putting in their crop,
confident that with ordinary conditions
there will be a plenty"