The Dickinson press., 1912-11-23
RANCH AND FARM.

RANCH AND FARM.
Stockmen say that the prairie grass
lacks its usual nutritious qualities this
The late rains prevented its
curing properly, and the wet and early
snow matted it close to the ground,
making it difficult to get. A cold and
snowy winter would work hardship for
the range stock. -Medora Herald.
Ianatz Muth. from the Antelope
country. was n of the Stark county
farmers to finish threshing before the
ran and n storm. He had S, 100
bushels of wheat. I, 1000 bushels of oats.
besides millet. speltz and other crops.
His brother, Alex Muth. had 400
bushels of wheat from 220 acres.
BY reason of the immense. amount of
threshine there was to be done thia
year. farmers have not had much time
to devote to blowing, and very little
has been done. This will no doubt
mean a reduced acreage of crop for next
year. The soil is going into winter
in the best possible condition, being
full of moisture. with sufficient stored
so that next year good crop returns
should be had, ever though the rain
fall is considerably less than this year.
Adams County Record: The Hettinger
State banks two carloads of dairy stock
arrived from Wisconsin or Sunday and
were all delivered to purchasers on Mon
day. There were seventy eight head
in the shipment, among which were
forty head of yearline heifers for Hugo
Jensen of Maltby. This makes some
thing like $50 head of stock that the
Hettinger State bank has shipped in
and disposed of this fall to farmers
tributary to Hettineer. Out of this
number about $50 head were young stuff
and the remainder dairy cows.
Tom Stevens health. says the Het-
finger paper, has not been the best of
late and he finds that he will have to
give up work temporarily. For this rea-
son he has decided to sell all his stock.
machinery, and all the other goods that
60 with a we'll equipped farm. One Of
the big attractions at the sale of No.
vember 18th will be a twenty five head
of cattle which will be sold to the high
est bidder along with the rest of the
stuff. Among this lot is a number of
good mich cows. These are the same
cows that have enabled Mr.. Stevens
to draw the big can checks at the
Hettinser creamery during the past year
and he would like to see some good
dairyman get them.
Mandan News: Over 400 hundred
bushels of potatoes to the acre and 1T
bushels of oats to the acre-those are
the two records established in Morton
county this year, the first here in Man.
dan, the second at Glen Ullin. The
state training school was the grower OF
the big potato yield and the oats were
raised on the farm of A. M. Lidstrom,
six miles south of Glen Ullin. Bott
/, records are remarkable and will doubt.
E less stapd long unbroken. There were
five acres of the potatoes grown, from
which a little over 2. 600 bushels were
picked by the boys of the institution.
The storing of the vast quantity wal
just completed Wednesday evening.
The potatoes were grown on the bottom
land just west of the buildings, lying
along both sides of the we'll known old
Flasher road; the piece grew corn and
millet last year. both of which yield
ed we'll. The potatoes are of two vari-
cites. some being early Ohios, but the
greater portion being of a kind known
as Rural New York potatoes. They were
planted during the latter half of May,
not a. dates having been kept
neither does Mr.. Brown remember how
many potatoes were own to the acre
though he is certain that only q very Or
binary amount were put in, and he
states that no particular pains were
taken. The potatoes were all of fine
quality, large and smooth. but there il
one record breaker which!is as remark
able as the yield. One of the Rural
New Workers weighs just three pounds
and eleven ounces-one of the largest
potatoes ever grown, so far as records
show. Papers all over the country are
printing a story of 10 potatoes at the
Minneapolis land show which weigh
30 pounds but ten of those like Mr..
Browns would weigh 81 pounds.
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