Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-14
II I STOCK.
TIE BREEDING AND CARE oF LIVE
STNeY

teresting to stock-breeders everywhere:
The rearing of farm stock. consisting OF
horses. cattle, sheep and swine, as q busl-
ness is. engaging the attention Of large
PROMOTION OF the farmers of both the OLD
and. the new continents ;: not only those
farmers who gain their bread by the sweat
of their brow, but those who are already
livingsin ailluence, have turned their attef-
ton to the management and improvement
of the. various kinds OF farm stock as Il
science. It becomes a science with those
progressive farmers who are really success
fill i'll the improvement ofsfarm stock.
If . the man who makes two blades OF
grass grow where but one grew before is a
benefactor to his race" equally so must be
the man who by intelligent breeding can
produce from one animal, with the same
amount Of feed, twice the amount of beet,
butter, mutton, wool or pork that was form
erly done; and that such is the. case nearly
every person will admit.
| can well r%ecollect When my persistent
feeding for a long time, a cow or steer might
be made to produce four or five hundred
mounds of inferior beef; Or a hog two or
three hundred pounds OF head and legs. A
flock of tine-wooled sheep averaging three
to three and one-half pounds of wool was
something extraordinary.
A.dairy of COWS that would produce one
hundred pounds OF butter each per annuln.
was all that could be expected, while at the
present time it is nothing remarkable to
find among our improved herds beeves
dressing eight to ten hundred pounds, q
flock Of improved Merino sheep that will av-
erage six to eight pounds Of wool, pigs that
will dress at nine months of age three hum
dred pounds of pork, and are always in com
dition for the market, and in the dairies OF
New York, where. butter is made a special
ty, two hundred pounds per cow in one sea-
son is no unusual occurrance, and in many
instances a much larger amount is pro-
duced.
Notwithstanding the area of our cultitat-
cd lands in this country for the purpose OF
stock-raising and grain-growing is being an
iAlally increased, the Increase in the popu-
latin of the world makes n demand equal to
the supply, therefore we need not have any
fears of an over-production Of the real nee
eksaries Of life.
Since the introduction Of refrigerator YES
sells the. shipment OF dressed beef and NUT
and France is becoming a branch Of our ex-
ports OF magnitude, and is likely to increase
for many years to come. In a late issue OF
the Royal Agricultural Society's journal is
M article bearing upon the subject of stock
raising, the. substance. OF Which is obtained
from replies to numerous letters sent to
prominent farmers throughout the king
dom, is that the success Of the British farm
or depends greatly upon the amount of live
stock that he is enabled to maintain upon
his land.
Iftllis is the case with the English farm
ar, will not the same theory apply to the
American farmer, only to a greater degree ;
with lands very much cheaper, and well
adapted to the growth of almost every va
rlety of the numerous grasses and grains re-
qnired for its s~nstenance? 1t is almost uni
yersal that those farmers Whou devote a
large proportion of their farms and SUI plus
means to stock-raising are the most success
tul, and that their. success is in proportion
TO the Improvement to which they are ena-
bled to bring their stock. In fine, 1t is the
stock farms that grow rich, and thereby en-
rich their owners, while the grain farms and
their %tillers are alike becoming worn out
and exhausted, the former in their natural
productive elements, and the, latter both
physically and financially.
The raising of farm-stock fol-. profit is no