The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1915-03-04

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The South End Farmers' Shipping
Association, with headquarters at
Hope, N. D., have. organized with a
capital stock of 1926, 900, which is di-
vided into fve.dollar shares. The AS
sociation has at present 10 members.
]. D. Parkman is president; B. A.
Kersting, vice-president; Ed. w. Han.
son, secretary-treasurer.
The organization was effected last
March. The first stock was shipped in
June, and since then 26 carloads of
stock have been shipped. Twenty-Five
of these amounted to S25, ,4s2.s3. The
other carload was divided among the;
owners without the money passing
through the Association. The charge
made for handling the stock 10 i've
cents per hundred pounds; while for
one person shipping full carload the
charge is but one cent per hundred.
The transactions have proven. very
satisfactory and have been quite an
encouragement to the farmers In that
they have secured all that there was In
their stock, and it has also brought
them in contact with the market, which
has taught them what the market de-
and which is resulting In their want
ing to improve their stock so as to be
able to secure the very best prices.
The hogs shipped out have meas
ursd up very we'll, as in most cases
they have topped the market, bat
there is more room for improvement
with the cattle.
The Shipping Association is not
limiting itself to merely shipping
stock. During the last week In Feb
ruary they put on a Short Course at
Hope. This continued four days. The
subjects taken up were: COMFY I'd
win Maryland, County Agent TO,
Barnes county; Care OF the Horse and
Colt Judging Demonstrations), Hog
Cholera and Feeding Steers-by ]. G.
Hoke, Special Live Stock Agent OF
the North Dakota Experiment Station;
I, Feeding. Dairy Cattle and Judging
Demonstrations-by j. W. Haw. Ag-
ricultural Agent of Cavalier county;
Crop Rotation, Alfalfa and Pit Silo-
by J. G. Haney, Extension Worker,
International Harvester Co.; Fruit for
North Dakota-by Prot. G.. B. Wei
dron of the North Dakota Experiment
Station; Feeding Sheep with sheep.
feeding demonstrations--by W. H.
Peters, Animal Husbandman, North
Dakota Experiment Station.
A study of this program shows tina,
it is livestock proposition, all the
topics but one being along that line,
either producing the fosd or the hand
ling of the stock.
The farmers showed great interest
and we're particularly interested 10
learning how to feed and care for
stock so as to secure the maximum OF
results with the least labor.
Mr.. Peters, In discussing the sheep,
emphasized the Importance OF having
them on the North Dakota farm. They
bring in two crops-the wool and the
lamb. Phey are easily gone into, as
the first cost is small. They require
no expensive shelter, in fact straw
shed makes splendid winter protec.
ton, and they eat q great variety OF
food, including all the weeds except
the Canada thistle, SO that they eau
be used for cleaning up the farm, and
in this way turning what would other.
wise be- worse than waste-as the
weeds, which are a dstriment-lnto 4
profitable product. He cited the fac'
of a sheep.feeding experiment at VII
liston, where the returns for alfalfa
fed to lambs was $3.50 per ton, while
the alfalfa was selling for s6.
Mr.. Hske, In discussing 'Beef Cat
tle," had some good specimens o.
short horns and Aberdeen Angus tt
use in demonstrating. He called at
tention to the fact that the valuable
cuts, of the animal came from the bael
). and loins, and that the most valuabl,
animal for beef Is one we'll developed
In those parts. He showed how tht
animals that he used In demonstrat
ing fulfilled, these conditions which
+ made them valuable on the market
The animal that is developed for milL
i production 10 necessarily less we'll de-
veloped in these parts that are indisa,
tions of good beet production. Hs