Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1913-01-23
Minneapolis Herd Stocks Big Farm

Inc famous Minneapolis herd
Browndale Shorthorn cattle, the priC
of the late Henry F. Brown, is to
the nucleus of great herd to be
the fine grazing country between tn
Gallatin and Madison rivers, jus
west of the Yellowstone park. Th
herd has been sold by R. W. Leach t
a ranch company, except two bulls an
will leave Minneapolis Monday owe
the Northern Pacific road in two spec
ial cattle cars. Minneapolis thu
loses to Montana herd of cattl
which is not known to have lost
prize for which it was entered
from stock farm whose annual sal,
drew cattle men to Minneapolis from
the country over.
c. l.. Anceney of Bvzeman, repre-.
senting the firm which bought the cat.
tie, has picked up breeders in Iowa
also which will go west in three cars
to further enlarge the herd. Mr.. An
ceney's firm plans to strengthen the
blood and produce fine herd of hardy
cattle. He places Shorthorns as
first for his purpose, Herefords Sec
ond and Polands third. Mr.. Aeon
ey returned last night to Fairfield,
Iowa to round up the other cattle.
He expects to place the remainder
of the Browndale farm herd in the
west. It is understood the farm will
be broken up and marketed.
While the passing of the Brown
dale herd, which has been a fixture
in Minneapolis for more than two
decades means a loss locally, it pro-
misses great gain for the west. Mr..
Anceney is associated with Harry L.
Summers, formerly of Iowa, who will
have direct charge of the new herd,
and Fl. w. Childs, who is pl esident
of the Yellowstone hotel and the yell
lowstone transportation companies, in
the ranch business. They have l00,-
900 acres of ranch land and 200, 600
acres of grazing privilege in the
Yellowstone timber reserve abutting
the park. The ranch lies in the
twenty-four mile district between the
two rivers and the Browndale cattle
home will be in a district of 80, 600
acres on Cherry creek, a branch of
the Gallatin river, which will be
blocked off to raise cattle. The COM
pany runs 10, 900 cattle on the range
and winters 1900 park horses. The
firm has 80, 900 acres of arabic land
under ditch, the whole tract being
fenced and cross-fenced with 300 miles
of fencing. On 341 acres of land
tributary to the station Of Anceney on
the new sixteen mile Camp Greek
branch of the Northern Pacific rail-
road from Manhattan the farm raised
last year fifty-five bushels to the acre
of wheat by dry farming.
Il think this is the best combina-
tion ranch in the country today
said Mr.. Anceny. 1T has a large
amount of tillable land with stock
water on all of it. We need Short.
horns in that country and as some
one was going to get the the Brown
dale herd we decided to buy it,
thirty IemaIeS In ali. -l
1--WE have topped, or bought the
best, Of three herds in Iowa, those Of
Besser Brothers, Harper; L. w.
Barnhart, Keswick, and Arthur Nllers
Cooper. We got a two-year-old
Percheron stallion weighing 1870,
from Massdam & Wheeler, Fairfield,
and a three-year-old mare weighing
1,94O. We bought also four mares
which showed at the international
stock show and two from the Robert
Burgess herd, champion two year old
shown at the international, and an
other which was a champion Of the
Illinois state fair. Minneapolis
Journal,