The Dickinson press., 1912-05-11
RANCH AND FARM.

NANxO Anu fAbKNUs
Bismarck did not Get quite a. much
rain in April az Dickinson. the record
being $50 inches 40 compared with
2.4s inches for our locality.
The Haley paper tells about the 70
turn of James Vines from Rainy Butte,
and some loss Of sheep. The same
paper hears that H. A. Gilbert lost
1000 sheep during the winter.
The big stock raisers in the country
south of Medora. report only about a
two.per cent loss Of stock the past
winter. Other places in the Bad Lands
the losses were more revere.
The So. 900 Belgian mares at r. S.
Bookings Oakdale farm lost their colts
this spring. This is quite a loss to Mr..
Bookings as the colts would easily
have been worth $500 each as soon 90
they could stand.
Robert Wilcox said it did not take
long to feed 400 or 500 tons of hay the
past winter at his ranch. He fed q
great deal more than usual but his cattle
came through without loss.
The Deiters Fuel Co. was getting in a
carlo ad of prairie hay this week. Hay
had been selling at SIS per ton but it y
getting very scarce and the price has
advanced to $18 and $50 per ton.
The Hess Creamery Co. at Glen
Ullin Is shipping one to two carloads
of butter and eggs per week this spring.
They load 200 to 800 cases of eggs and
1000 to 2 900 pounds of butter into a
car.
j. S. Pirkl said Monday that he had
100 acres of wheat seeded but that the
rain kept him from getting onto the
land. He had a little more wheat to SOW
and then he wanted to do some break.
ing for flax. 1t was too WEI for a few
days to even do breaking.
Montana ranks second in wool pro
duction among the five western states,
Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada. Utah ant
Montana. Wyoming leads with 40.
600. 900 pounds: Montana. 36. 600. 600
Idaho. 20, 900. 900; Utah, IS, 600. 600
Nevada. II. 600, 600.
Farmers will have q chance to bu!
mich cows at the old horse sale yard
southeast of the city on May nth. Tn
sale starts at 10 O'Clock. Those VIII
cannot pay all cash can make q par
payment and get the balance on bank
able paper. The sale of 100 COWS vii
take place at Manning on May 14th
Ormanzo Brown of The Brown Dairy
last week sold a pure blood yearlin
Holstein bull to j. E. Arnold for 500
also a Grade cow for $50. Mr.. Arnol,
is treasurer of Billings county and ha
land near Sentinel Butte. Mr.. Arnol
is working toward a dairy farm an
made a good beginning by purchasin
pure blood stock from The Brown Dairy
H. C. Short said Monday there wa
practically no loss of cattle down tn
river from Medora. He fed a lot of ha
at his ranch and had to ship baled ha
out from town and also z, 600 bushel
of grain, but he saved his stock. Cattl
are naturally thin and particularly 8
is this true of calves at the Short ranch
w. M. Clark had 100 acres of whea
seeded before the rain last Friday an
Saturday and was planning on roundin
out 40 acres Of wheat for the season
He will also SOW oats, millet and bar
ley for feed. Mr.. Clark tried raisin
flax for two years but he is not sowin
any this year. He does not see prof;abl
returns in the crop.
1t was cold the first of the week. du
probably to the fact that heavy falls Q
snow were General in Montana In tn
Gallatin valley over a foot of the beau
tiful fell and as far east as Beach ther
was a fury of snow on the 18th. 1t rain
ed hard at Dickinson on Friday. Satul
j day and Sunday. the total precipitatie
of the three days being 1872 inches
Fortunately it was not cold until Mon
!, day when the weather cleared and
was not very bad on stock. The farm