Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-16

music in the house and no mortgage ON The
premises.
Experience declares thai the conclusions o.
the iorego ug propositions should be accepted as
nearly automatic. If MAJ farms exclusively fot
grain, among his mos5 ce. ala products appear
debt and mortgages. The French have t1-s
proverb: ''No cattle, no forming; few cat lie,
poor farming; many cattle good fam g"
You may say that whenever it Is ptodtabie to ran
acow in business it viii be done. Not so;
Facmers R'e more slow to charge their methods
thau other CLASSES of men, Custom and usage
are app TO carry the day, aud oDly toe mole
prog .9oslve and thinking adopS the better way.
beheve that any farmer with an exclusive de-
votion to single branch, makes mistake.
Mixed agriculture, making the dairy and stock
the leading features, will give the best re ;ults
1t Is 10 this point that l press the attention Of
the farmers of southern Minnesota, and of the
entire Northwest. Give grass ald clover: it
means cattle; flocks and herds viii preserve the
land in its original freshness and strength. Some
one has beautifully said that sheep leave track
of gold wherever they tread. A bushel OF corn
sent to England, viii cost about fifty cents but
that corn put into tie compact form of lard, or
batter, or cheese, eau travel around the world
to find its market, aud still leave proit. 1t
does more; it leaves behind it the manur4al sub
stance which enriches the land from which it
sprsug, while the other has robbed the soil OF its
wealth.
THE ENORMOUS VALUES OF CATTLE AND THEIR
PRODUCTS IN tn : UNITED STATES.
That we may have some definite idea OF the
vast values which cluster around the cattle ard
dairy interests of the United States, 1 have
sought for reliable statistics and produce the re-
suits of a long and careful investigation. Ny
lend Gen. Walker, superintendent OF the cen
sus, has kindly furnished me proof sheets on all
census data pertaining to agriculture Tor use on
this occasion. The field is continental and the
figures imperial. Here is the record for 1881,
the percentage from 1880 being added:
Total value of cattle in the United
olaUes. 500, 900, SUJ
Value of butter and cheese pro-
duceo $500. ....... Zo6, o6O,OJO
Value of milk produced. ....... $40, ZOO, 900
Total. ............... ...... 1888, as, 800
The valuation of different kinds of cattle is as
folIows:.
Mich COWS. 1926, 1875, S1O
VI al other cattle. ....... 463,O69, 499
The value of the product of our COWS in but
ter, cheese and milk, is $685., 1866, 200.
The whole number of mich COWS for 1882
may safely be put down at II 1000 900, and their
value at average of $50 each is 1920, 600, 900.
The cattle annually slaughtered, from veals
to matured growth, has been estimated by high
authority (Lewis F. Allen, of Buffalo, N. y.
at $500, 100000. This, taken with the products
of the dairy, make grand aggregate of cattle
production of between $500, 100000 and $780,
0O0,000 Let us compare these figures with the ag-
gregate value of the principal crops for 1881,
and see how the cattle and dairy interests stand
related to other products which more frequently
fill the eye Of the commercial world:
Value of wheat S45s, $3.50, 427
Value of tobacco .............. 43,372,936
Vale of COTTON. ............... 259,016,3l5
Total $40 $50 O79