The Dickinson press., 1913-01-04
RANCn AND FARM.

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Joe F. Kralicek from nine mi lee
north Of Dickinson, raised 1900 bush.
els of wheat the past year.
North Dakota farmers will be inter-
ested in learning that a new automo-
bile pillow has been invented that may
revolutionize this feature Of farm work.
Albert Wyles Of Evanshan, England.
has devised a small motor propelled
pillow which with q 4.horse power engine
cuts a fureow nearly s inches deep at
q speed we'll over 3 miles an hour.
After the first furrsw is cut the pillow
need only be started and 1t will auto.
matically cut the next furrow. The
fuel cost per day is between 70 and IS
cents. The cost If horse blowing in.
that district ranges from s.. IS to a. IS
per acre. Dickinson implement men
say that the invention is an important
one and if properly perfected can be
utilized all over the wo Id. The pillow
weighs about 700 pounds. 4
Jens jacobson of Daglum has farmed
over 500 acres the past year and has
IL, 900 bushels of grain in granaries and
bins. A month ago the biggest part of
his crop wat under the snow and things
did not look very promising. His 800
acres of wheat averaged 20 bushels to
the acre1, Is acres of fax averaged is
bushels, "a acres of barley averaged 43
bushels and ii acres of bats AVERAGED
81 bushels to the acre. In one field MI.
jacobson had so acres of late sown flax
that averaged 3 bushels to the acre.
However, the general yield raj excel
lent and Mr.. jacobson is pleased be-
cause he was able to get his grain
threshed this fall.-Herald.
There is a great object lesson for
North Dakotans in the fat steer cham
pionshlp as decided at the International
Live Stock show in Chicago" says
Dean j. H. Sheppard of the North Da-
kota agricultural college. THAT
steer" continued Mt. Sheppard. was
fattened entirely IN small grains. prin-
cipally barley. No country in the world
can raise barley more cheaply. the SELL
ing price of land and everything else
considered, than North Dakota. With
barley as the chief food for finishing.
the answer is easy for North Dakotans.
What is needed is intelligent feeding.
Another thing" stated the dean. is the
expulsion of the old idea that corn fat
tened steers W ere the winners. The
Canada steer that won the worlds
championship and was sold at so cents
a pound, never ate an ear of corn be-
fore he was shown. That indicates the
northwest can raise and fit cattle for
market as we'll as Nebraska. Iowa and
Kansas"
A dispatch from Ashley says: A
great number of horses owned by farm
ers living a short distance below the
boundary inc between North and South
Dakota are reported to be dying, fol-
lowing their vaccination to ward off the
mysterious disease that has killed off
so many thousands of horses in Kansas,
Nebraska and neigh boring states during
the last few months. We have been
told that the horses that have died were
vaccinated by a young man. who. when
he realized that his neighbors were
willing and anxious to have their
horses v%accinated. came t Ashley, pur-
chased about ten dollars worth of
blackleg vaccine. and then started using
it IN the neighbors' horses. Many of
the horses thus treated have already
died and others are in a very bad
shape. One Ashley business man who
has some horses on a farm in that
neighborhood is a loser in this deal.
This experience will probably serve to
warn a few persons against future &C.
ceptance of veterinary services at the
hands of::every Tom, Dick or Harry who
may be in posses sion of an instrument
or two and some drugs, but wholly
without knowledge Of what he is doing
or experience. We understand that
the men who have lost horses have no
chance to recover any damages. the boy
being of age and his father refusing to
do anything. saying that it makes no
difference to him what is done with the
boy-he will not give him any aid.
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