The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-09-28
FEEDING FOR BEEF.

Feeding cattle SAYS the american Ag-
ricultUria, must in the future be made
accessory Of all grain or mixed farming.
Dairying, grain and cattle raising, and
special cultures, will undoubtedly form
the three chief divisions of Agriculture
in future. This is made necessary by
the course Of events. some of which are
the gradual change of the soil from Its
new condition to one IN which it must be
fed Systematically and scientifically; the
increasing popular demand for meat,
dairy products, and other choice sup
plies, which are needed in communi-
ty whose manner of life is improving
year by year, and also by the necessity
of conducting our industries in very
economical manner so as to meet the
present active competition. All these
events, with others, to which we need
not refer, are combining TO force farm
ers to feed live stock and make beef
mutton, pork, poultry, Of high quality.
Grain must be grown. There must bel
wheat, oats, barley, and corn, TO supply
the markets. But we can no longer
grow these in a haphazard, slip shod
manner, but only in a regular skillful
rotation with grass, green crops and
roots interchanged, and liberal manur
ing is the first necessity for all these.
We cannot afford to waste straw, chaff, |
or fodder, nor can we sell roots in any
quantity, because of their bulk, and also
for the reason that, except for feeding
beeves, sheep, pigs, and COWS, nobody |
wants them. 1t is needless to explain
further to the farmer who has gone |
through some years experience in grow
ing grass and grains, how this necessity
is rapidly forcing him to change his
methods. There are some who have
adopted the new order of things. and |
are satisfied with the results; there are
others, however, who not seeing, or re-
fusing to perceive, the pinch they are
in, are going on in the old way, year by
year growing poorer, more dissatisfied,
and more given to complaining that
farming don't pay any longer" The
trouble if not in their business, but in
their poor management of it. We have
spoken of the need for better
work, for higher culture, for enlarged
yields, and for the most economical and |
skillful management How to reach |
these, is the point, that they are neces-
sary is nowhere disputed. We see plain
ly, that it is only by choosing the most
desirable branch of farming, suited for
particular soils, locations, and other con-
trolling circumstances, and sticking to
this; briging to the chosen business all |
the study, skill, patience, and capital,
that may be needed. We emphasize
capital, because without this all the rest |
is unavailing. A farmer without capital
is slave; with il, he has the means of
all his other forces or capabili
ties, to the utmost. No man can be
farmer without sufficient capital, any
more than he can be a banker, a mer-
chant, or manufacturer. A man may
go on to the prairie or into the woods
upon fresh homestead with very little
capital, and worry out a poor living, but
he sells himself to the government for
five years for this privilege, and for that
time, until he has the patent for his
land in his hand, he is not a free man,
but is in bonds; but to go into the busi
ness of farming proftably, capital is
needed. When the particular branch is
chosen, not from fancy. because this will
not do, for there are dairy farms and
grain farms, one of which will not suit
he other business; and there are milk
arms and market farms in the vicinity of
cities, that can be carried on nowhere
Else, and upon which other sorts of farm
ng will fail; but the kind of farming to
be chosen must be that which can be
most proitably carried on under the
circumstances and in the locality. Grain I.
growing and mixed farming, including |
he rearing or purchasing and feeding
If live stock, must necessarily form the |
argest branch of agricultural industry s
As we have said, the one cannot be con
lucted alone, but must be assisted by the ,
Dther. 1t comes then to be a most i'm ,
'ortant consideration what kinds of an ]
mails are the most profitable to keep, +;
nd how they are to be fed with most
,roft. 1t is evident, from a view of
What is going on in the live stock mark !
It's. that it cannot pay to feed an animal
bat requires four or five years to ma
ure, nor one that will not be extra in