The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-07
NLLDEER, HALLIDAY
HAZEN TO HAVE LAST.
PUREBRED Sire SALE
Greater North Dakota Associa.
tons Slope Campaign Is
Drawing to Close
so HEAD GO ON BLOCK
$500 Purebreds Now Placed at
Head Of State Herds;
Drive Is Transferred
so HEAD GO ON BLoCt

Effort to bring more purebred
cattle into the Bismarck -Mandan
area through the direct sale method
will be completed by the Greater
North Dakota association next week,
according to B. E. Groom, chairman
Of the associations agricultural
committee.
The association, through its sales,
has placed more than 200 purebred
animals in the area.
That the sales campaign will be
continued in the northwestern Sec
tion of the state after its completion
here is indicated by the constant in
quiries from farmers and stockmen,
anG demands from railroads to con-
centrate in that section, officials say.
A total of 60 head has been pur-
chased and is now en- route to Man.
dams assembly pavilion. These will
be offered at three sales next week:
killdeer, Tuesday, March IL; Halli-
day, Thursday, March IL; and Ha-
zen, Friday, March Is. The Associa-
ton has now placed in excess Of
1900 purebred sires at the head Of
state herds, with inquiries contin-
uing to pour in. At each Of the points
where sales are scheduled, a COM
mittee of local businessmen and
farmers has completed . survey Of
the breeders and farmers in that To-
cality, and placed a tentative order
with the Association for 80 many
head of certain varieties. Chairmen
|of these committees are: Killdeer.
L. @: Huiett; nxfii6uy, xiteyE Chris.
tensen; and Hazen, r. J. Sailer.
At every sale conducted by the
association, local breeders are en-
couraged to bring in their own pure
bred bulls, offering them for sale at
their own terms and prices, with no
charge being made by the .associa-
tion for this service. All animals
shipped in are sold for cash only,
the prices ranging from $125 to
$3.50.
A total Of II head Of high class
young shorthorns is being shipped to
Mandan from Spokane, WASH, where
they were purchased last week by A..
j. Dexter, development agent for
the Northern Pacific railroad. By
special shipping arrangements, these
animals are unloaded at Mandan At
no greater cost than would be en-
tailed by shipping from some points
in Minnesota or North Dakota, while
Mr.. Dexter declares that they are
about the finest car of real quality
young stuff he has ever helped to
bring into the state.
John HUSKY, former state dairy
commissioner, and now dairy cattle
buyer for the association, is shipping
carload Of Guernseys, Holsteins
and Milking shorthorns to the as
sembly pavilion at Mandan from
points adjacent to Crookston and
Thief River Falls, MINI. In every
case, these are all Of breeding age,
and come from herds where butter
fat production records have been
carefully kept.
Martin Apland, beef cattle buyer
for the association, unloaded = car
recently at Mandan which was pur-
chased from North Dakota herds,
and which will also may 20 to make
up the quota for these three sales.
This shipment includes Aberdeen
Angus from the Hartley Stock farm
at Page, and Shorthorns from the
Byram herd at Casselton and the
Black herd at Grandin.