St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
Stock Raising in Northern Minnesota and
DAKOTA.

oIoch hUtSinD IN northern minnesota ana
Dakota.
The quick returns and large profits de-
rived from wheat raising have, with but
comparatively few exceptions, deferred the
country from this great element of prosper
ity to all agricultural communities, and out
side of the state but little is known of the
natural advantages we have for stock rails
ing.
The native grasses, principally blue joint
and red top, cover the prairies in almost in
exhaustible quantity, and their nutritious
qualities are unexcelled by the best of tame
grasses for production of beef and milk.
| The healthy climate and great abundance
of pure water'tn lake and stream cannot be
surpassed in any country, and the soil is
well adapted to the successful culture of all
root crops and the best of tame grasses, such
as clovers, timothy and blue grass, the lat
ter being natural to the soiD all of which
are great helps in adding to the length of the
pasturing season.
Old residents of the state haya long appre-
D,
as well also as some public spirited capital
lists, knowing the benefits that inure to the
country by the Introduction of blooded stock,
have invested heavily in this direction, and
there is now in the state lot of blooded
stock unsurpassed in any state in the Union,
in fact will compare favorably with some of
the best in the old world.
Among the many and best known farms
cfQtQ ba
the
"LAKE ELYsIAN STOCK FARM"
at GAINESVILLE, owned by c. A. DeGraff, ESQ.,,
with its choice selected lot of Hambletonian
trotting horses, Short Horn, Alderney and
Jersey cattle, Southdown sheep and Berk-
shire swine.
THE "BLUFFDALE HERDn
| of thoroughbred Short Horns, owned by
Samuel Dearing, Esq, of West st. Paul.
THE MEADOW LANE STOCK FARM,n
owned py N. P. Clarke, ESQ.,, of ST. Cloud
| Stearns county, the stock of which now mum
bers some 120 head of Short Horns and fift,
head of Jerseys.
| A creamery and cheese factory, with ca
pacity sufficient for five hundred COWS. 1,
one of the attachments of this farm, ant
its products rank as among the best on th,
market.
THE ''BRowNDALE HERD"
By Fl. f. Brown, Minneapolis, (whose farm
| consists of $50 acres within one mile of the
| city limits on Mfnnehaha creek) consists oi
| fifty head of Short Horns. This herd 1,
valued at 5000.
| Mr.. Brown has also twelve head of JERSEYS
| from various well-bred families, but does
not make a specially of this class of stock
| He is also breeding both Norman and Clydes
| dale horses, having now on the farm some
twenty head. Poland China are his choic
of swine.
ON THE 'NoRTH OAKS FARM,n
The property of j. j. Hill, st. Paul. the stock
consists of Short Horns, Aberdeen Angus
and Jersey cattle, Clydesdale horses. anl
Scotch Highland sheep The Short Horns
thirty-five in number, are mostly direct i'm.
portations from England, prize winners al
the Royal Agricultural society and othel
English and Scotch competitive shows.
THE ''BRooKsIDE FARMs,''
near Kirkhoyen and Benson in Swift county
owned by A. G. Wilcox and associates, hav.
ing now two very fine herds, one of some
100 head thoroughbred Short Horns on the
Benson farm and at Kirkhoven a herd O
100 head of imported ''Friesians'' or Hol
stems, are both breeding and dairy farms
Mr.. Wilcox states as his experience tina
Montana ranchmen prefer the Mfnnesot.
bred bulls to any other, as they prove harder
than those bred further south.
March & Spaulding, of Minneapolis, own.
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