The searchlight., 1912-12-13
AGRICULTURE and
STOCK RAISING
Report Of shipments Of Cattle,
Horses, Sheep and Grain for
Year 1914. for culbertson
Written by w. Mathews.

Department Of Culbertson, shows
shipments tor the year. as follows:
Wheat 6s cars, fax 63 cars, cattle
80 cars, sheep "a cars, horses 4
cars, and potatoes car. Taking
the shipments tor December at a
ratio of the shipments made during
the first week thereof, would bring
the number OF cars forward to
January 1, 1913, to wheat - cars,
flax ga cars, which will be approx
mately correct.
i The meaning OF these figures
can perhaps be comprehended
more readily, by reducing the
amounts to bushels OF grain and
heads of stock. The average num-
Der OF bushels of wheat to the car,
may safely be placed at 1900,
which gives us IoI, 400 bushels.
The average number OF bushels OF
fax to the car, may be safely
placed at 1875, which gives us
slII2,75o bushels. The average
} number Of cattle to the car, may
safely be placed at 2I, which gives
US 693 head. Sheep will run
I about 100 head TO the car, which
gives us 3.84o head. Horses may
I be figured at 40 to the car, which
gives us 80 head.
= Reduced to values we have
wheat $40, $50, flax sI24, ,o25, cattle
! $62. $40, sheep sII,52o. horses
! SI2, ,ooo-,otaling $3.50. .S9s, not tax
( ing into consideration ! car OF po
! tatoes, the value of which we are
\ unable to estimate.
n We have noted seversl state
D ments from different districts whict
have been published Throughout
, the length and breadth OF th'
< Treasure State, and they have
, without exception been unaccom
< panied by any figures that wouls
D furnish basis to check the cor
< respondents estimate. And the,
D were all estimates. The distric
< for which Culbertson is distribut
J ing point, contains an area OF IS.
x square miles, and the products
. shipped amount 10 sI.5Is s. pc
< square mile OF area, or 1919. 50 pc
. quarter section. Taking into con
4 sideration the waste areas includes
Z in the district the showing is re
4 markable and our pride prompts
i US to challenge a better showinl
= from any dry farming district de
4 veloped during the same period o
= time.
Il The lands embraced in the Cul
. bertson district are 40 per cen
= grazing, so per cent agricultural
. per cent water, ; per cent tim
= ber. and per cent ungrassed bad
. lands. Ignite coal is the Princl
II pie fuel used and costs S2 90 pc
. ton at the mines, or s.. 90 per tol
4 delivered IN your bin.
II The butter and eggs produces
. in the district have been traded a
\ the bookstores for groceries, An
. we are therefore unable to Civ
y accurate figures on these products
. However, the butter may be safel
\ estimated at 40, 900 pounds with
. value Of aSc per pound, whic
would add s., 600 to our grand ts
. tai and the eggs may be safely e.
Y timated at 8, 600 dozen with valu
. OF 25c per dozen, which would ais
add s., 900 to the grand tota
. bringing it up to s287. .S95.
. Diversified farming is claimin
= the attention Of practically eveI
= settler in the district. and the pr
q duction OF both stock and grai
= will increase rapidly, until Il
. maximum area has been placed III
= der cultivation, which will prob
= bly, take about three years. The
= the alfalfa areas will encroach {
q the grain areas Tor a time, SO tn