The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-03-20
Mobiles County Stock.
No. XIV.
wN. PARRY-AN EARLY SETTLER
SUCCESSFUL LFARMER-HOW PLUCK
AND WORK WILL TELL.

We begin our series of stock articles
this week with an account of the farm
ing experiences Of VIM. Parry, of Lit
tie Rock township. Nm. Parry ar
rived in 1872, among the earliest, and
was one of the first men to select q;
farm in Little Rock. He has had II
years experience in this county, and
therefore can speak with authority
He has been success, notwithstand
ing grasshopprrs and other drawbacks
incident to the frontier, and we consid-
er the published experience Of such Is
farmer worth its weight in gold. In
these twelve years, Mr.. p. assures us
lie has known no disease among his
stock, with the exception Of some dis
temper among his horses. Better still,
his family has been uniformly healthy.
lie knows tins to be good stock coun-
try, and finds it profitable.
Mr.. Parry is located on sec. 26. Little
Rock township. lie owns half Sec
tion, has 25O acres of breaking, and 80
acres seeded down. He has 25 acres in
timber. Also an orchard OF 3 acres,
with 800 apple trees. Nearly all his
trees bore some fruit last year, and he
gathered about % bushels of apples.
lie has good dwelling house and a
two story barn, 26x40 tt. His cattle
sheds are 1sx90, and his sheep sheds
16x1OO. Besides these buildings he has
good pig pens and three corn cribs, each
Sxl6fJ. lie has three good wells on the
place. good for watering 200 head Of
cattle. lie will fence 100 acres in the
spring for pasture.
Sheep.-Nr. Z. has 200 head Of sheep,
mixed Merino and Cottswold. His clip
last year averaged about 81 lbs. un-
washed. lie shipped his wool to Phil
adelphia, and it netted him $205. The
increase was 6G lambs, and he sold SO
of them in the fall ut 50 head, making
a profit of 1926 on his sheep. lie is of
the opinion that sheep pay better for
the amount Of labor than cattle. Has
not fed ever 90 tons of hay in the last
two winters, but fed flax and other
straw.
Cattle.-Mr. p. has % head of cattle,
Ii milk COWS. Makes his own butter
and ships to Omaha. He figures the
net profit on each COW at S25 to $50 4
year. Feeds very little grain. His
cattle are all grades, about blood
Short Horns.
Hogs.-He keeps 40 to so Berkshire
hogs. He has the advantage of having
a good field of clover, about 10 acres,
and will seed down 25 acres more in
the spring. Last season he threshed
bu. of clover seed from two acres with
common machine, and sold bu. OF
this at 81 bu.
Horses.-Mr. p. keeps six horses,
of them brood mares.
Mr.. P. informs US that for several
winters he kept his steers without sta
bling, simply letting them run in the
yard to the straw stacks. In these l:
years he has been successful in raising
cattle, horses, sheep and hogs. More.
over, his success in raising fruits is
notable and demonstrates that this is
destined TO be fruit as we'll as stock
country. With the exception of two
years of blight, he has raised goot
wheat crop each year. His corn crol
was good every year except last year
His oat crop has be9, especially good
averaging for the II years at least A
bu. to the acre. Last year the average
was Sc bu. and the year hefnr" - I'm
He has had equal success viii, timotn.
and last year from II acres he tlreshr'
10 bu. to the acre, and sold the seed a
$1.25 per bu.