The Dickinson press., 1912-03-16
RANCH AND FARM.

John w.. Goodall reports stock in
pretty good shape on the reservation.
The Glendive Review said last week
1t is impossible for anyone to tell as
yet how much range stock has suffered,
but it is certain that large losses have
occurred. especially among cattle. Sheep
have Jared better. it is said. and horses
have done remarkably we'll.
Senator A. L. Martin Of Sentinel
Butte has announced that he will give
Is bushels of seed corn. a peck to an
individual. to farmers of Billings
county. He hopes that the raising of
more corr will increase the number of
cattle and hogs on the farms.
f. Marks was at the Dickinson stock
yards the first of the week feeding two
carloads of good horses that he had pur-
chased of John Christensen of Sentinel
Butte. He expected six or seven loads
on Tuesday from the Dillon country in
Montana. The horses were all for the
eastern market.
A carload of 3-year old Montana
range steers, shipped from Bridges by
bundle g. Walters, sold in Chicago this
month at $3.50 per cwt. ; average
weight LAB. One Swear old steer.
shipped by the same firm sold at So. so,
said to be the highest price ever paid
for a hay-fed steer. The average weight
was /, $50 lbs. !; gross price, STA. IS.
Anton Anderson of Bel6eld says that
the cold weather of the past month has
been very severe on stock. 1t has
taken a great deal Of hay and there are
many people who are short of feed and
there is practically none to be hand in
the country. Some farmers are almost
without hay for their teams for spring
work.
Joe Cuskelly says they have been
feeding stock at the mountains for some
time and probably a hold out until
the first of April. They had 800 loads
in the feed lots and will feed it all
this year. In other years they had
been able to Craze their cattle almost
wholly and keep the most of their hay
over.
John Gunwall. IL miles north of Tay-
lor, purchased a setting of " heat stacks
that did not get threshed last fall. He
had about hay enough for his herd of
cattle to last until April. but he rea-
soned that if he had the stacks he
could saw some of his hay for spring
work. Farmers generally r very short
of feed this spring and they cannot buy
hay, for there is very little in the
country.
During the month of April the public
leasing of school bonds will be held
in the various counties of the state.
The minimum rental price is $40 per
quarter section with an additional fee
of So. The dates of these leasings in
the neighboring counties are Dunn,
April 10Th; Hettinger, April 10th Bow
man. April 18th; Billings, April 10Th
Adams, April 18th; Mckenzie, April
23rd Mercer, April oath; Morton April
22nd and Stark April 10th.
Schafer Record AT Alexander last
week, John Mitchell. a homesteader,
was found guilty in justice court of
shooting a horse belonging to a neigh
Dor and was fined SIS. There are still
other cases of stock shooting in the
county which are now being %investiga-
ted by the authorities. It's a safe bet
that the next man found guilty of will
fully and unlawfully killing any stock,
the property of another. will assist in
the manufacture of binder Irvine for
one or more years at the state peniten-
tiary.
The state commissioner of agriculture
is in receipt of a letter from S. J..
Reign, Elkhart Lake. Wisconsin. which
reads as follows: Several parties. in
Guiding myself. intend to come west
this spring and buy land for general
farming. We will probably want from
two 10 three sections of good level land
for raising grain, that can be farmed
with traction engines. We prefer good
prairie land, or may consider land
that can easily be cleared, free from
stones, that can still be bought cheap.
If the land is good and conditions are
right there will be more people from our
SIS REWARD