The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-12-22
NEBRASKA AS A LIVE STOCK COIN
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Beeves, sheep, hogs and horses-one
or all, there is millions in them" At
the base Of ali there is the iiIinitable
market, wide as the world. Then comes
the low down cost of production to sup
ply this market-the low cost because
the climate fayors health and vigor in
animal life, experience proving that
there is no virulent form of disease
among stock in Nebraska, and because.
even on the wild prairie, the pasture af-
forded by the native grasses being abund-
ant and all the hay that is required OBJ
talnable at the cost of cutting. Grain
iced, OF course, is cheap; and sufficient
shelter for the winter months is obtained
by building the rough prairie stable of
posts and boards, covered and wrapped
as with a blanket by piled up straw and
hay. No one has commenced as flock
master, and not found the avocation
profitable. In 1876, flock of Cotswolds
shepherded ON The plains, Welded Messrs.
Creighton, of Omaha, an average fleece
OF lOfbs per head, the price they realized
being 4O cents per pound in the dirt
The Hon. Moses Stocking, of Wahoo. in
Saunders county, had en- July 1st. 1874,
tiack of 1852 Merinos, which he valued
at So per head, amounting to a $50 and
from these on June 30th, 1875, his profit
was $3495.3S. Mr.. A. Richie, an ex-
perienced flock master, of Orton, Sew
ard county, states that his profits for the
sheep year, 1856, exceed his most
sangIne expectations, and he believes
he can get his money back each year,
and have the flock on which he starts be-
sides. Instances of this kind could be
accumulated. Let it be said, however,
that there are now 5000 sheep in Cage
county; and at sheep shearing festival
held at Beatrice, the county seat, on May
II, 1876, Mr.. S. c. Carey exhibited a
Merino fleece weighing 2Ofbs 13oz., and
4 second fleece from a three year-old
Merino ram weighing sixteen pounds
and five ounces; Messrs Paddock & Long
fieeces weighing IL to 14ibs. each and
Dir. Moses Stocking, a fleece of Is lis.
L l 2 o., from a two-year old Infantado
ram. The business is rapidly increas-
ing, and soon textile manufacturers
will look to the Nebraska prairie for
a large annual supply of wool. Mr..
Cornelius Jansen, lone of the leaders
OF the Russian Mennonites, who are
making Nebraska their home, on $50
acres of land purchased from the B. &
u. Company, has established a flock
of 1,620 grade Merino sheep, and
a herd of leo blooded cattle, choosing
Nebraska for his enterprise after he had
carefully examined the country from
Southern Kansas to the Red River of
the north and Mr. N Maloney, capi-
talist of New York, "a practical floJk
mastery who has large landed interests
in Illinois. has purchased two sections of
land, and leased one section from the
State, in the Republican river country.
To this ranch he is bringing 5000 Mer-
inc ewes from New Mexico, and thor
ough-bred Merino rams from Vermont,
anticipating from the cross large sheep
and heavy fleece in Nebraska, which in
the matter of sheep he considers des-
tined to be the Scotland of the States. In
cattle the prairie berdmen are accum-
ulating fortunes.-CoMNUNIcATED.