San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-09-07

producing milk, the East has no rival
in the West, and in the manufacture
OF strictly first-class butter finds rec.
sonable profit in the choice of COWS
aud by late methods Of feeding prom
Using great results, especially under
the ensilage system.
After discussing the character of va.
rious parts of the country in their re.
lation to stock raising, Mr.. Grinnell
says the great South save Kentucky,
has no system in cattle raising, since
her grass lands are not we'll sodded,
and king cotton sways the sceptre. A
good dairy is almost unknown, and
juicy corn fed beef is a myth. New
England and the Middle States have a
limited area of the best grasses, many
good herds, rare mixers kept in barns
scarcely less comfortable than the
dwellings of the farmers. Milk and
fancy butter for the cities is the great
end sought in their cattle husbandry.
VI late the creamery butter of the
West has been successful candidate
for popular favor. and if rn.feeding,
as alleged, gives it peculiar and rich
flavor, its permanence would seem to
be established, since the prairie corn
States can have no rival in the grow
ing of this cereal. The nine States
designated do not produce the beef for
their own consumption, in fact. not
fifty per cent. of the beef required for
the cities; and the cheapening of rail-
way freights and the opening of new
grazing section, places the older States
at great disadvantage from year to year
as competitors. Good bloods they will
rear with profit, finding Western pur-
chasers, and transportation gives them
the monopoly of the market, while the
ambitious boys in love with the herd,
will seek pastures new, where romance
and the promise of large profits
lend their attractions. Westward there
is a mixed cattle husbandry.
In the northwest Minnesota, Da-
kota, northwestern Iowa, eastern Kan
sas and ebreska-there is reliance
on native grasses which are saved in
stack at from ST. to So ton, and, with
straw and cornstalks, grows cattle in
United numbers, and call for butter and
cheese factories, found to bring even
surer gains than wheat growing. The
enlargement is with better shelters, cult.
walton of the tame grasses and improv
ed breeds, showing hay and erass-fed
steers worth from $25 to $50 each al
three years of age, and reared on non
resident lands or farms valued at from
$40 to 1926 the acre. The dairy inter
ests have wide bearing on cattle
raising, and no American industry is
at this time exciting more earnest at
tention. A low estimate of our annual
product OF milk from 100000 COWS is
$500, 1000. How can the COWS be
improved as mixers is the problem in
the corn states, and not impair their
beef qualities? This finds one ans.
wer-select families of the beef breed
that are proven good mixers. The
combination of these qualities is posi-.
sible in high degree, and is strictly 9
practical and not speculative question
Poor mixers, as a rule, lose their
owners money, and have been the
great occasion of encouragement in
butter and cheese. Those for sale are
often found worthless, and extra stock
is cheap at large price. Statistics
show that there has been an increase
in revenue from the COW in 1880 ovel
1870 of $40 a head, which indicates
improved stock, better feeding, new
methods and better prices. Creameries
are springing up through the Central
West. and there are 500 in Iowa alone
where ten years before there were none
This plan gives the farmes the bene'
fit of milk for his calves and pigs, the
cream being only taken to the factory
where, under a system, with ice, i'm
proved implements and good packing
there is uniform article commanding
fancy prices. Good cows are now
saleable at from $40 to $50 each, fol
tie dairy, while poor ones are moi
wanted at any price.