The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 18, 1917, Page 21

Marketing at South St. Paul Carrington Farmer Tells Some More of His Experiences for Leader Readers Carrington, N. D. [ Baitor Nonpartisan Leader: The staff correspondent of the Non- partisan Leader has finished his arti- cles on the St. Paul stockyards. The articles have certainly been in keeping with the way the business is conduct- ed In the yards. I want to give some more of my experiences. After this I shall take my stock through to Chicago, till we get some way to slaughter our own stock in our own state and put it on the market ourselves. One year ago I shipped a double deck car of lambs. Three differ- ent men counted the lambs as they were loaded at Carrington. The stock- yards men at St. Paul had six less. I had the men that loaded them at Car- rington make affidavit as to the count and I put in a claim against the rail- road company. At that time the contract the rail- road gave would accept responsibility for sheep at only $3 a head. My claim was allowed for $18. The lambs on an average brought $7 a head, so I was a loser of $4 a head. The lawyer told me I could make the railroad company pay the full value in transit, regardless of the contract I was forced to sign, but I was glad to stop where I did for fear the railroad company and the lawyer would get the whole blame business. CHARGED TO YARDS I was anxious to find out the sucker who got my lambs, so I asked the agent at Carrington if they got any trace of the lambs. He informed me that rail- road company charged them up to the South St. Paul Stockyards company. Judging from that the railroad com- pany is well acquainted with the man- ner in which the business is carried on in the stockyards at South St. Paul. Two weeks ago last Monday my neighbor and I had a car of hogs an the market at the same old place. My neighbor accompanied the car of hogs. ‘When he got over to the yards the bogs were mixed with other hogs. My neighbor and the commission company had a tilt, the commission man deny- ing that they were mixed. The com- mission company had weighed up 36 hogs weighing less than 100 pounds at 8 cents per pound, but we knew we only had-10 in the bunch of 122 that weighed 100 pounds or less. Also we had one sow that weighed 420 pounds that was taken out of our bunch alto- gether and a hog put in instead, which docked us 80 pounds. THEY LOST $65 The commission company said that if there was a mixup in the yards the stockyards company did it, so the men that did the unloading were called on the carpet together with the commis- sion company, the superintendent be- ing present. The men that did the un- loading admitted that they got mixed, but said that they straightened it all out again and that it wasn't necessary for us to report a mix. So the way it was straightened out it leaves my neighbor and myself out $65. Again the lawyer tells us he can make someone come across on those hogs, but, farmers, what about it? If we undertake to collect the $65, who should we keep our eye on—the lawyer or the South St. Paul Stockyards com- pany? Would we have anything left when we got through? Next. C. W. RICHERT. A Song of Dakota Territory Editor Nonpartisan Leader: Cando, N. D., Dec. 30, 1916. I send you herewith “The Little Low Sod Shanty on the Claim.” This poem was quite a favorite in Dakota Territory and adjacent country 30 years ago and later, and I am saying this because I claim authorship and copyright to this song and its title, other claims and versions of it to the contrary notwith- “gtanding. The Dakota Farmer some years ago made an extensive inquiry regarding this song and its author and I think the song was finally conceded to be a *classic” under this title by a Mr. Murphy. I threw no light on that inquiry at the time, but can, and will if desired, give the history of every line and version, from the first line sent from Iowa to Hon. J. J. Nierling at Jamestown, Dakota Territory, in 1880, entitled “My Little Low Sod Shanty on the Jim,” to the last line of the inclosed version. K. F, Very sincerely yours, EBNER, Cando, N. D, R. 1, Box 9. “ . My Litle Low Sod Shanty on the Claim eV (A reminiscence of 1887, by K. F. EBNER, Cando, N. D.) s Can be sung to the air of “My Little German Home Across the Sea,” “My Little Low Log Cabin in the Lane,” or the erstwhile tune of “The Lily of the Yalley.” = 1. I am looking rather seedy now while holding down my claim, ‘Where everything is scattered 'round about, And the mice play slyly ‘round me when I nestle’ down to sleep, In my little low sod shanty on the claim; My clothes are splattered o’er with dough (I'm really quite a sight) And everything is very much the same, *Till I've feared if T. C. Barnum would get his eyes on me, He would capture me and my little cabin home. 2. ‘When I left my Bastern home, a bachelor so gay, To try to win my way to wealth and fame, = -X little thought that I'd come down to burning twisted hay In a rusty “Two-lid Buffer” on a claim; Still—I wonder if some kind-hearted maiden won’t pity on me take, And extricate me from this mess that I am in? Oh! the Angel—how I'd bless her if this her home she’d make, * In my little low sod shanty on the claim. 3. Then when others would be happy for our dwelling on the claim And would rise and shine and call us Blessed, Though they’d weep and mourn our parting they would lay us down to rest, Near the little low sod shanty on the claim; But, no— that sounds too faithless—we’d never never die, But work and wait and watch and pray, *Till the summons or our Saviour of Earth’s “Ransomed to the sky,” E’en the inmates of the “Sod Shack” on the claim. (Refrain) ‘Where the hinges are of leather and the windows have no glass, ‘While the board roof lets the howling blizzards in, And one fears the hungry coyotes that are sneaking through the grass, ’Round the little low sod shanty on the claim. (Refrain) ‘Where the summers have fair weather and the winters quickly pass, (Here the seasons are of joy and endless chain) ‘When one scents the fragrant posies that are nestled in the grass, ’Round the little low sod shanty on the claim. ¥ (Refrain) To be “translated in a moment—in a twinkling of an eye”— At the sound of “Gabriel’s Trumpet” we'd join the glad acclaim— “The elements desolving,” and Heaven and Earth made new— * E'en the little low sod shanty on the claim. - We Deliver the Goods The Live Stock Department started the New Year by sell- ing the first consignment of steers at $9.25 and cows, at $7.60. No firm on the South St. Paul market got these prices on that date except us. Write Gustave Piper of Davenport, N. 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