The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1920-01-15
AGRICULTURAL
ACTIVITIES
Montana Man Now in County With
New Plan for determination
of Wolves

Niohtdna MAN NOW IN County With
New Plan for determination
of Wolves
DIR. LADD GIVES SOME POINTERS
Bureau Concludes. that Way To Get
Good Seed is to Raise it
The extension workers met in Fargo
last week. Some one has said, "Strike
and the world strikes with you; work
and you work alone"
j. r. Gillings of Montana is here
at the request of the Farm bureau to
give his plans for the determination
of coyotes. Any group of farmers in
terested in this work should leave
word at the bureau office.
DR.. Ladd in his talk to the extern
sion workers advocated that the peo-
pie of this state emphasize a few of
the larger agricultural activities in
order that production along those lines
might be sufficient in time to attract
the markets Of the world. North Da-
kota should be noted not only for its
wheat, but for flax; not only for beef
but more for its dairy cattle; not 50
much for the lard as for the bacon
hog; not so much for grasshoppers as
for poultry; not 30 much for its wheat
screenings as for it's sheep; in short,
not so much for its raw as for its fin
ished products.
In talking about marketing we used
to say that it would be fine to have as
sociations to secure pure seed the
same as is done in securing pure-bred
cattle or hogs. But we have about
come to the conclusion that il we
want pure seed for this county the
only way to secure it is to get busy
and raise it ourselves. Pure seed is
about as scarce as the proverbial hens
teeth. The seed houses still have a
function. That function is to buy the
farmers seed and clean it, inciden-
tally making good profit by doing
so. The Kubanka wheat catalogued
by certain seed house is listed for
$3.50 per bushel. The same strain of
wheat raised in the same county can
be sold here locally in Glendale for
$2.70. But remember this wheat must
be cleaned, and cleaned right. There
still seems to be a place for the mid
dleman in doing this work.
Ed A. Smith called our attention to
an article of last week "Dickey Coun-
ty Low in Dairying" He says: "The
figures were taken from the state
dairy commissioners report of the
cream statiess,' and while they are
undoubtedly correct report from
these figures, the article in itself is
misleading in the assumption that the
figures, $84,525, represent the entire
dairy products Of the county. We
find that the creameries at Cakes and
Glendale shipped out 1925, 400 pounds
of butter in 1918, worth on the mar
ket $1,444,000. The Cakes creamery
gets considerable part Of its pro-
duct from outside the county, but this
will be about evenly balanced BY the
cream shipped by farmers to the
Equity at Aberdeen, St. Paul and
Minneapolis; so that for the calendar
year Of 1918 the dairy products Of
Dickey county are evidently nearer a
million and half instead Of eighty
four thousand dollars. The dairy COM
missioner's reports evidently do not
include the returns of the Cakes and
Glendale creameries, or the cream
shipped by individual farmers, but
only the cream stations which buy
and pay for cream"
The county agent asked Fred Paul
son of Ludden to give some idea as to
how he profited on the sheep which
were shipped in from Montana last
fall. He writes: "Of the 100 feeder
lambs purchased last fall the coyotes
got IL, lost 3, and butchered g. BY
taking them out Of the barnyard and
placing them in the garden patch near
the house we were enabled to stop
the ravages Of the coyotes. The bal
ance OF the sheep were sold on the
Sioux City market for $15.75, which
was Is cents within the top. re-
ceived $400 more than paid for them.
l should have held them longer but
the weatheF was against US, for we be-
lieve that sheep will sell for $4,000
per hundred by next spring.
THE lambs surely did put on the
weight. They weighed 20 pounds at
the market, having shrunk about 10
pounds because Of the two days hard
trip required to reach their destina-
tion. The lambs were allowed to
range over the stubble for sixty days
and the last thirty days they were
turned into a corn field. They prac-
tically took care of themselves, caus-
ing me little or no trouble.
III you know of some one who likes
to hunt coyotes, please tell them to
come here, as we are pretty well sup
piled with them."
w. r. Whitver, H. ]. Dufelmeier