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

west school Of agriculture Of the Uni
versity Of Minnesota for four years,
and graduating from that institution.
He has 500 acres under cultivation,
the other 20 being timber pasture
land. IRIS
Mr.. Flat 10 raising some very fine
seed for cerdfication this year He
has no wheat this 8 He raised
tification under the state agricultural
college. He has also 40 acres Of COM
mon barley. He is doing speciality
work on potatoes and has 60 acres
of the finest Earl Ohios and seven
of the finest Early Ohios and seven
aid visitor has seen., Last year 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 $1.05 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 that
in the Red River valley. a had too
much wheat for its 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 Dent corn. and about
six acres of alfalfa, sowed with his
barley this year.
Moe Brothers have an 80-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 al heavily as they possibly
could be with fruit, and back of these
are tall old evergreens. Moe Broth
ers and their parents have lived in
this place since 1897. They are excel
lent farmers, their land 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, s of white swee clover and
timothy. 2 acres Of alfalfa, and 10
acres of millet and oats to be cut for
hay. The rest of the farm is in timber
land along the coulee, making excel
lent pasturage.
The Moe Brothers have two pure
bred Guernsey heffers, one of them
from the Jean Duluth farms, Rouge
Moon of Jean Duluth. Her lam is a
649 pound COW, leader in Glass E in
Minnesota. She was sired by Craiga-
moor May King. The other young
by Craigamoor Bruce $1,000, and Is
out of Searchlight's Fairy Queen, Sep
TENDER 1S, 1921. She vas bought at
the Guernsey sale at Thief River Falls
this spring, having been entered by
her breeder, L. Jensen of C~learbrook,
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
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
$3.50 pounds of butterfat in Class B.
She was the dam of William May
Rose, winner of II firsts n 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 Moon
light of Jean Duluth. is a remarkably
fine young fellow. He a horn May
%, 1922. 1t is Mr.. Lindem's plan to
build his herd w 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