The Dickinson press., 1911-11-04
RANCH AND, FARM.

out in the Bowman. country recently.
DR.. v. H. Stickney has so head of
beef cattle at the j. w. Stimson place
that he expects to ship about the 10th.
At Bel6eld those who made shipments
last week were Frank Ecklund. Christ
Oyhus and Henry Reimers, president of
the Open A ranch. Eighteen cars was
the number shipped, if13 cars for the
Open A. 3 a r for Oyhus and 2 for
Ecklund. -.
E. J.. Scharf was out in the vicinity
of Midway last Saturday to look at a
buck band of sheep belonging to c. C.
Mead. Mr.. Scharf purchased the Suth-
erland sheep which were out with Arthur
Clark at Gladstone last year and has
been figuring on buying enough to
make his number up to 1000 head.
F. F. Butler returned Sunday night
from Chicago, having taken down 2, 900
head of sheep last week. He struck the
market in the wrong time, and states
/ that at the time he. was unloading there
were 500 cars of sheep on the tracks
around Chicago waiting to unload, and
many more on the road. Bowman
Pioneer. -"
Joseph Kasper is practically out of
the sheep business at Fayette. hav-
ing shipped 2. 100 head, 9 carloads. to
St. Paul the first of October His
lambs brought ST. 10 per head. He has
a band of bucks which he is Offering for
sale or trade for cattle. Mr.. Kasper
and his sons are growing horses and a
few cattle and doing a little farming.
The following is a potato story from
the Mckenzie Chronicle Joe Lalonde
of the Antelope Valley is one of the
prize potato raisers of this county. In
digging his potatoes last week he exca-
waited a tuber which weighed five
pounds. one weighing four and a half
pounds, and several around two and
three pounds. He also raised a cabbage
weighing fifteen pounds
Ben Ash, one of the old time cattle
kings, who lives at the mouth of the
r abit creek on the Moreau, has pur
chased a 100 horse power gasoline engine
and a centrifugal pump from which he
expects to irrieate 1000 acres Of land
on the Moreau Bottom. Mr.. Ash OWNS IL
miles of bottom land along the Moreau
and expects to put it into alfalfa ard
corn. This will make the largest pri-
vate irrigation project in the state
Strool(S. D.)Leader.
Joe Hawks ran into town with his
auto on Tuesday after some kerosene.
He is running IN Advance separator
with his Rumley Oil Pull and doing
| good business threshine for Nthe farm
ers Ten miles west of here. He states
,, that on his own farm he threshed fif-
! teen acres OF wheat that showed a yield
of ten bushels per acre. Much of the
flax in that n%eiehborhood that for a time
was thought to be hardly worth thresh-
ing is going three bushels to the acre.
Bowman Pioneer.
Medora Herald: We've tried EN- both.
and know where we're at, by hen. We
have burned Ignite, and we have
watched Montana coal trying to burn the
house down. The Red Lodge is undoubt-
eddy a good coal ; but CHI, you Ignite
Give us not coal that burns like cellu-
loid, but rather hand to us the native
coal, which is honest whether in a sulky
mood or a cheerful n We of Medora
recently tried. a car of the foreign pro-
duct with the result that we have re-
turned to the use of the coal that the
Lord put here for us.
The Courier.News of Fargo said or
Monday: Charles F. Eggert, proprietor
of Eggert.s Sanitary Market and Cole
Storage, has received from Medora 6
load of d fine fat North Dakota steers.
one of the finest lots ever brought into
Fargo. Within a short time these steers
will be turned into beef and will bt
tickling the palates Of Fareo's most dis
eliminating meat eaters. They arr
big fat animals and should make juic!
tender eating. This car load was speci
ally selected for the Eggert Market b!
an experienced stockman from tn
famed stock range in the vicinity o
Medora.
A South Dakota Exchange says Owe
100 carloads of stock have been shipped
by Indians of the Standing Rock reser
walton to Chicago this year. The amour
to he distributed is about $12O. 600, o
SIS for every man, woman or chile
on the reservation. In addition tn
Indians furnish the government school,
and also the winter beef rstion for tn
old and the INDECENT. This is the las
season for the big cattle: outfits in III
west Missouri country. All the lease
expire in June and the cattlemen viii