The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1871-07-13

sustenance and wealth on the two sour
ces, and on them, combined, the State
must and will take the lead over all 9th.
CIR sections of the continent.
We lately pcrused an article in news
paper published in the interior of New
York State, advising the farmers to give
up the notion of raising cattle for the
market and turn their attention to the
dairy business. 1t alleged rs sequence
that the East could not compete with the
West in raising and fittingout marketable
cattle. This conclusion is sound and well
timed. The West must become the great
cattle region of, America. The East can
not hope to retain vestigc Of the cattle
trade. 1t has in fact nearly departed
from her borders, and the time is not
distant when the places there that know
it will know it no more" There it is
necessary to feed the whole year-cither
under cover or in enclosed pastures, lcav-
ing close margin on the cost of the an
imal. In the West, not more than two
or three months in the year at best, is
requisite for wintering. The remainder
Of the time is most all gain. Cattle are
scarcely troubled by disease, and they.
seem to mature fuller and sooner. Though
the intervening distance necessary for
transportation is great, the East can moi
think, with its retail price Of beef at
twenty-five to thirty five cents per pound,
to compete with the West with beef at
SIX to ten cents per pound. Atsix cents
there is more profit to the West than at
thirty to the East. While the West enjoys
the bulk of the cattle trade it may soon
expect to receive the whole oft. The East
will look elsewhere for profit, and invest
its capital in enterprises that will pay
moro largely.
Kansas is in the Great West, is
an important part Of it, and is destined
to occupy the central portion in the cat
tic business. She possesses some advan-
tages over her sister cattle raising States,
in that, while being endowed with all the
of mild and propitious climate,
fine grass ranges and water courses, she
is one of our most gifted agricultural
States. She has this superiority, that she
is not compelled to send off for her pro-
duce and grains and what she makes is
that much made with comparatively |
small expense. There is scarcely an
acre in the State that can not be made
for one or the other purposes.
Where it fails for agriculture, it can be !
used for grazing. Vegetation Is prolific
from the lowest point of the bottom land |
to the summit of the craggy bluff. Stock
raising must become the chief business
of the people of Kansas, and it will find
in agriculture valuable auxiliary IN
its production. Those men who
their own raw material into
'~loebio goods are the most successful
and none can vie with them. So in con-
rerting our grain into marketable cattle
vo are to reap the greatest gain.
A creditable commencement in the stock
BUSINESS has been made and bids fair to
'rocced until all Kansas is one vast stock
aising and agricultural region.
In contemplating so gratifying scene
is pleasing to argue that Kansas must
ontinue for all time cattle growing
tate. Here is a section, beginning with
he Missouri and ending with the Pacific,
hat was laid out especially for cattle
aising. Everything is SO conducive to
rOwth. The surface is so even, the win ,
ers hre short and mild, and the very de- ,
Ign of the land intended it to produce ,
attic. Tho principal object sought in
he raising or manufacture of any article
J cheapness, and Kansas with its i'm
,ense facilities can continue to grow cat
e cheaply and market them in competi-
ion with all other regions.
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