The Dickinson press., 1912-04-20
RANCH AND FARM.

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For sale or exchange-two pure bred
stations and me pure bred
Hereford bull. Also will sell 100 head
of good horses. H. B. Schaffner, Glen
Laurel, N. D. 4-6-4t
Two cars Of tiolstien cattle were ex-
pressed to Sumner, WASH, from the
eastern states, passing through here on
No. 3 Monday.
The commissioners Of Mckenzie
county got around at their regular April
meeting to make arrangements for fur
aishine farmers Of that county with
seed grain and feed. amounting in all
to about SIS. 00o.
According to Farm. Stock & Home
of April 18th. much Of the wheat bar
ley, and fax being sowed this spring
will not grow. and the suggestion is
made that 100 kernels of each be tested
before further sowing. 80 that the rate
of seeding q be gauged by the per
cent of termination. This Is a play
hat has profits in it..
Reductions in freight rates on wool,
both in sacks and bales, transported
from western points Of origin to eastern
destinations, g prescribed.April 18th.
by the interstate commerce, commits
sion. The commi ssion held existing
rates On wool were unreasonably high;
that the blanket system Of making those
rates should be broken up and graded
rates established; that the rates on
wool in bales should be lower by about
is per cent than those on wool in
sacks. and that there should be a read.
justment on classification of wool to the
distinct advantage of the shippers.
A carload of eastern Montana hogs
were sold in the Union Stock Yards.
Chicago. on March 10Th, for S7.95 per
hundred weight. This was 1.-THE top
of the market for this year. The hogs
averaged 1879 pounds each. The size
not being normally large indicates that
the western quality brought the price
rather than the quantity. This proves
that western ''pigs' is pigs" and shows
what can be done. besides growing
prize-winning alfalfa grains and other
products. 1t points the way 10 a most
lucrative part of farming when properly
taken up and we'll handled.
THE drench is a most common man.
ner of giving medicine to large animals.
Use a long necked bottle. insert this
between the cheek and the first back
tooth. Raise the head to a level so the
fluid will run back to the throat. Do
not tie the horses head so far up that it
is unable to swallow. Grasp a COW
around the neck and by the muzzle
with the left hand, and by inserting
the bottle just in front of the back
teeth and cheek. the medicine will be
swallowed even by the most stubborn
animal. For hogs. cut a small hole
in an old shoe or boot and give the
medicine very slowly. As a rule. it
is not wise to drench pigs. Farm.
Stock & Home.
Mandan News: That it pays to keep
your cattle over winter and fatten them
a little was demonstrated the first of
the week when P. w. McGillic paid. D.
B. Gore, q farmer of this vicinity. $50
cash for a ~ months old steer.
New England Herald: Joe Brisk is
eoine to do a little experimental work
Al his farm this summer. Joe has been
doing considerable writing to a friend
of his in Council Bluffs, Iowa. and has
sent to him for ten pounds of seed
Shallu. the new grain recently brought
from India. This grain has been tried
out in Nebraska, Iowa and other west
ern states and is claimed to be the
best substitute for hay that is known.
This grain in the remarkable short time
of q month reaches the height of three
or four feet. Three crops ear be cut in
n season. Joe thinks if the stuff does
we'll that nearly all the farmers in this
locality will want to SOW it.
Dunn Co. News: A few weeks ago
the News published an item about a
SOW belonging to w. c. Pelton, on
Spring creek. giving birth to eighteen
healthy pigs, and now comes Pelton
again with the statement that one OF
his ewes recently gave birth to three
lambs which are all in good condition.
walt" says he just had to tell it Ia
keep up with his reputation on the pit
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