Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-14
Cattle Club Imports
BlOOdcd Stock; .Guernseys Are
Used AS Foundation of Herd

Il TE.A.-ylEr III ii I'.lHHt ..a4-HtH lAl-E- ~. .HnE
west school OF agriculture of the Uni
|vepity of Minnesota for four years,
and graduating from that institution.
He has 800 acres under cultivation,
the other 20 being timber pasture
land.
Mr.. Flat 10 raising some very fine
seed for csrtification this year. He
has no wheat this season. He raised
IS acres of Manchuria barley for GER
LITIGATION under the state agricultural
college. He has also 40 acres Of COM
mon Barley. He is doing speciality
work on potatoes and has so acres
of the finest Earl ohios and seven
OF the finest Early Ohios and sever
aid visitor has seen. Last ear Mr..
Flat put through IS acres of certi-
fled seed potatoes. He shipped to three
special buyers in Topeka, Lawrence
and De Soto, Missouri. and the low
| est price he received on his shipments
was s1.05 per bushel. After the stor-
age and shrinkage his seed sold this
spring brought in a minimum price
of 50 cents per bushel. He finds this
way of raising potatoes more profit
! able than raising ordinary potatoes.
Mr.. FLATS land, like most of hat
in the Red River valley, has had too
much wheat for it's own good. He is
restoring its fertility by planting fod-
der crops. He has a fine 30-acre field
of yellow sweet clover, 10 acres of.
Northwestern Den corn, and about:
| six, acres of alfalfa, sowed with his
barley this year.
Moe Brothers nave an S0-acre farm
about two miles south of FLATS. In
addition to their own 80, they farm
an additional rented 40 acres. This
farm is a beautiful place with huge
old trees shading the well-kept farm
yard. The trees are out Of the ordin-
airy, for among them are apple trees
loaded as heavily as they possibly
could be with fruit, and back of these
, are tall old e~vergreens. Moe Broth
ers and their parents have lived in
this place since 1897. They are excel
lent farmers. their and looks as clean
as a garden plot. They had this year
AZ acres of Marquis wheat, 6 acres of
corn, IL of oats, IS of barley, Z of
potatoes. 5 of white sweet clover and
timothy. 2 acres Of alfalfa, and 10
acres Of millet and oats to be cut for
land along the coulee, making EXCEL
lent pasturage.
The Moe Brothers have two pure
bred Guernsey heifers, one Of them
from the Jean Duluth farms, Rouge
Moon of Jean Duluth. Her dam is a
$40 pound COW, leader in Glass e in
Minnesota. She was sired by Craiga-
mo May King. The other young
heifer is Clover-Crest Brunette. sired
by Craigamoor Bruce $1,000. and is
! out of Searchlight's Fairy Queen, Sep
TENDER 18, 1921. She was bought at
the Guernsey sale at Thief River Falls
this spring, having been entered by
her breeder, L. Jensen of Clearbrook,
Minnesota.
The other member of the England
Guernsey Cattle club, Alfred Linden,
lives on the same road about a mile
south of Noes. Mr. Linden has a
very fine .heifer. Colleen Moon of Jean
Duluth 1o2681, sired by Craigamoor
May King. and her dam one Of the
foundation cows of the Jean Duluth
herd, Coquette of Haddon, whose rec
ord was ~10,336.10 pounds of milk and
556.19 pounds of butterfat in Glass B.
She was the dam of William May
Rose. winner Of II firsts and 16
championships, and also dam of Gold
en- Cremona, who was first in the
Washington State fair and second at
the Vancouver exposition. and dam
of Julia's May Rose. a member of the
first prize calf herd at the National
Dairy Show. Waterloo Dairy Congress.
and member of the first prize Breed
ers' Young Herd at the Iowa. wiscon-
sin and Illinois state fairs. This heif-
er comes of the May King of Linda
Vista line. She shows her breeding in
the quality of her milk. Her young
bull calf is sired by May Rose Noon
light of Jean Duluth, is a remarkably
fine young fellow. He was born May
20. 1922. 1t is Mr.. Lindem's plan to
build his herd up to about 10 to Is
head Of purebred mich COWS. He is
milking at present II grade COWS
which he will gradually replace with
purebreds as they develop. He is keep