The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-10-16
KILLDEER AREA LETS
PROFIYLESS FARMING
WANE;FAV0RSS STOCK
Keeling, Fable, Kary, Ingvo|ds,
Reems, Fettig and John
son Diversity
HEREF0RDS ARE POPULAR
Robert Wilcox and M. B. Lewis
Are Two Leading Dairy
Farm Operators
HEREF0RDs ARE POPULAR

Two years ago, Wnen Ounn county was
organized, Campbell Scott (Scotty)
and Joe Brew built the first business
house at Manning, the county seat. It
was intended for a restaurant, but
turned out to be an eating, meeting
and sleeping house, all in one.
On May 20, 1908, a blizzard came
bowling out # the north. "Scotty's
Place" was crowded with guests, and
they had to be cared for. After sup
per tables and chairs were piled in
a corner and "Shakedowns" were
spread on the floor for the visiting
men and cowboys.
Twenty-Five years ago 'Dauntless
Dunn" was one of the COW counties
of the Missouri Slope, where the hard
riding cowboy held dominion over
herds of sinewy range COWS and thin
thanked steers. Dunn still is known as
a COW county, but the COWS are Of the
Hereford, Shorthorn, Holstein, and
Guernsey breeds, and the farmers are
proud of the designation.
Years ago the cowboy was forced to
drive westward before the incoming
rush of stock breeders and wheat
growers. The stock breeders continue
to flourish, but the exclusive grain
growers are far less numerous than
they were, and it is expected that they
eventually will fade from the picture,
as far as Dunn county is concerned.
liberalization on Increase
One is forced to this conclusion by
the rapid increase of Investigation
on the farms, and the high grade of
livestock raised on the ranches that
still are maintained along the rich
and well-watered edges of the scenic
Bad Lands. Dunn county farmers and
ranchers have in recent years had the
proud distinction of almost continue
ally topping the South st. Paul and
Chicago stock markets in competition
with the corn-fed steers of midwest
ei.l states. The record is a forceful
testimonial of the nutritious qualities
of the native grasses of Dunn county
and the Missouri Slope.
Every railroad town in Dunn county
is a stock shipping point, but Killdeer
holds the lead with an average Of $50
carloads a year. In September this
year 90 carloads of high quality stock
we're shipped out of Killdeer, includ-
Ing two special trains that carried
nothing but cattle.
III 1928 $50 carloads of grain were
shipped from Killdeer and put this
town at the head of all other cities
on the Northern Pacific system in the
amount of grain exported. There Is q
tremendous slump from that high
~nA0vl $hic Vyoow md ~ DC nNf ha11aVod
that Killdeer will ever regain its
laurels as q primary grain market.
The farmers who practice diversifi-
cation have stepped in more numer-
ously than ever to prevent q repe-
tition of that record in the future.
A. E. Lawhead, who spent five years
buying cream at Grassy Butte and the
last five years at Killdeer in the same
occupation, is authority for the state
ment that butterfat shipments from
Killdeer have more than doubled since
1925. Mr.. Lawhead made this remark:
First we ranched: then we went into
grain growing-a lazy mans job; but
53-cent wheat has made us all sit up
and take notice. All farmers who
made wheat growing their main occu-
patton the last Is years are busted
and gone"
Wilcox Big Producer
The biggest producer of butterfat In
the Killdeer area is said to be Robert
Wilcox, four miles west of town, who
milks Is HolsteinS and makes use OF
a milking machine. M. B. Lewis, seven
miles to the north, keeps Guernseys
and milks an average Of 20 cows. He
also uses q milking machine.
Among the successful farmers In
the Killdeer trade territory who rely
mainly on Investigation are George
Keeling, Ernest Fable, Joe Kary, Olaf
and Sigurd Ingvold, Sam Reems, ia
cob Fettig, T. A. Johnson, and A. ].
BRANDING. There are scores OF 9TH
ers. Hugh Delinger has made a not
able success. mostly with livestock.
Anton Skachenko bought q rundown
farm a few years ago and now has
one of the handsomest homes and
farm plants in the county.
There are some large cattle ranches
still to be found along the Little Mis-
souri, and Big Muddy. Bill Connelly's
with 600 head of Herefords, Is per-
haps the largest. The Connolly resi-
Gence is one of the handsomest rural
homes in the west and modern In
every particular. The Layout" on
this ranch has become q show place
for Dunn county.
Other successful ranchers in the
breaks" are Rasmus Jensen, who
raises Hereford cattle, and Reinhold
HoVaNNAJ Vryh@ has n f1NnE nj a nm
sheep. D. G. Beck, superintendent Of
the PIT outfit on the Fort Berthold
reservation, has 1000 head of Here
fordS on the ranch. He claims KILL
deer is the biggest stock shipping
point in the west. In 1923 he drove
1867 head of "~hitefaces" across the
Little Missouri. and loaded them out
at Klldeer. In 1919 he drove enough
cattle to the same shipping point to
produce $780, 600 in cash returns. One
carload of prime steers that year
brought the record price Of $3.50 per
lead. n
Proud Of Cow Title
The people Of this locality are
proud of the fact that Dunn Is still
known as one Of the Cow counties"
Fred Oberg. manager OF Durham
Lumber company at Killdeer, said
in this connection: "'The Almighty
was thoughtful in giving us plenty
Of rough grazing land that could not
be broken up. Our rich native
grasses, thousands Of springs and wa
rercourses, and abundance of natural
shelter make this locality q paradise
for the flocks and herds, both sum
mel and winter"
=. }. Hoel. manager OF .Killseer
Grain company, who has bought grain