Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-09-28

MANY IL 11OHtdIlG l1I ilC WILL SIG uOWIi No.
day and grumble sorely over the misfor-
tunes Of our country-grumble peevishly.
until his evel-tempered wife becomes fret
full and unhappy and his children pert and
saucy. Grumb]e until he becomes Disguised
with himself and the rest of the world. He
will draw bright pictures Of a productive
plantation in some summer cline, and COM
pare life under sub circumstance with his
present hard lot, without stopping for a mo-
ment to count whether or not he has the
means to procure a home in his idol cline.
were he there. In drawing his sketch he.
Will compare the poorest condition OF his
with the best condition of his prospect
i've home.
1t has always been a mystery to us why
men are so anxious to make themselves and
all about them unhappy, and why they do
not argue, even with themselves, with any
degree of fairness. The truth is, he who
sits down to reason calmly and fairly upon
the matter cannot but admit that Montana.
although scourged with the grasshopper
plague, possesses many advantages and is
by far the best poor-man's-country to be
oundi in America. What other Territory,
or State, is there where stock can be raised
with as little cost as they can here? The
Rocky Mountains alone afford wonderful
facilities for grazing and on these Montana,
though ii had no other natural advantages.
has more miles of pasture, and more desira-
BILE locations than can be found anywhere
else on the continent.
Let the sore-headed Montanian pause for
a moment and reflect. The farmer Of the
States must keep every hoof of stock in an
Enclosure during summer and must feed
them from four to six months during win
ter, and when spring does arrive the stock
are, as a general thing, in a worse condi-
ton to stand the rains and cold, chilly
winds Of early spring than those who run
wild among these mountains, and whose
only care to their owners may be traced in
disfigured ears and the rude outlines Of the
branding-iron. Yet they multiply as rapid
ly as they do anywhere else, and for beef
and dairy qualities can defy the world. We
have cold, dreary winters; snow often coy
crs the earth and mad winds chase it and
sweep il in heaps; the mercury goes down
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times remains there for days, still our mar
ket is always supplied with good beef and
mutton, and there is as little fatality among
stock in Montana as in any other section.
Herds roam upon our plains and highlands
winter after winter and come out in good
in the spring.
The farmers Of the Western States raise
large crops Of gram, and consider themselves
fortunate if they can market it in the hoof.
while here we receive remunerative prices
for grain, Willie our herds roam at large on
free and boundless ranges. The most Tome
pilgrim in the Territory, if he has spent
one year here, will admit these facts. and
there is not one of those who return to the !
States who does not wish himself back t
again. There are but few who have lived .
here long enough to become accustomed to !
bhe country and learn its advantages who |
will not return when they get : broke" let t
them so to whatever country they will.
lie who has made a raise y here may 90 i
20 some sunny land, where there are more '
social advantages, and be contented. but the +
ess fortunate man, who finds it necessary to il
'tistle in order to provide the necessaries of .
life, will find Montana, despite the maledic- |
ions he. in a fit of desperation, could heap t
lpon her, to be possessed of more ady1n- z
ages than any other country.
1t is a sad misfortune that mankind are Z
more prone to grulnble than they are to rea- B
on, and we verify believe that half the ii
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