The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07

five months old, weighed 732 pounds; March LIST
they weighed 767 pounds, o gain of 80 pounds
in seven days; gain each per day, gl-2pounds.
They were fed as follows:
$50 lbs skim milk at DC. ..............,..$ az
A lbs corn meal. 70
20 lbs of hay at $lOper ton. .............. 30
Total feed expense. ..............$ 81 30
Cost per pound, 3 7-10 cents, to compate with
the following:
June s, 1878, s pigs weighed 327 pounds:
June p, 423 pounds, a gain in thirteen days Of
96 pounds. They were fed 439 pounds of skim
milk and PIT pounds Of corn. Crediting the
milk with 6 1-2 pounds per 100 would make %
ID pounds increase from 60 pounds of shelled
corn, Figuring the milk at % cents per 100
pounds and the corn at 80 cents per bushel
(market price at time) the pork cost 2-27-100
cents per pound.
In the evening it is estimated that sixteen
hundred people were in the opera house. The
exercises consisted Of an excellent musical pro-
gramme. and a %sprightly, we'll written, prac-
teal paper by Mrs. Curries e~mbodying her ex-
p~erience in butter making. But my own ex-
perience is to furnish a good warm stable,
warm their milk, feed a little bran and shorts
or oats every day, and have a rack and keep it
filed with your sweetest and best hay, keep
their stables clean, and they will have nothing
to do but grow.
With regard to feeding mich COWS, l consid-
er mixed bran and shorts, corn, pumpkins, and
plenty of good, sweet hay, as the best class of
food, together with plenty of pure water: and
don't let your cattle stand around in the yard,
with their backs bumped up like a rainbow,
during snow storms and billiards..
On Thursday the 14th the first business was
the reading of a paper by Hon. Hi
ram Smith Of S~heboygan Falls, Wis.
He said Prof. L. Stewart, the best authority on
cattle feeding, gives as a standard ration for
mich cows, daily, "A pounds of dry organic
substance, ndthis ration should consist of 2
l-2 pounds albuminoids, 1912 pounds Of car
Donates and 40-1W fat Thirty pounds of hay
will produce the dry substance, but will be
deficient in albuminoids and fat; 30 pounds Of
hay at 80 per ton costs Is cents; a much bet
ter ration, consisting of corn fodder 10pounds,
hay 8 pounds, bran 5 pounds, malt sprouts 5
pounds, corn meal 3 pounds, and oil meal 2
pounds, Will cost no more than the hay, and is
worth more as a feed, and three times more for
manureal value. Modern dairymen are learn
ing that cow coming into milk in the fall or
early winter bring in a much larger revenue
than summer dairying.
The reading Of this paper was followed by a
spirited and vigorous discussion of the sub
ject and a rapid fire of questions and re-
plies.
The second paper was that of o. G. Grigg of
Camden, Mimi, on the subject Minnesota as q
dairy state. This is emphatically q grass
growing state, Wild grass grows abundantly.
1t was the home of the buffalo long before the
white men settled here. The writer thought
Minnesota an oat state and thought oats the
best crop farmers could raise. He mentioned
the erroneous idea that costly barns are re-
quired for the proper care of stock in winter.
There is no necessity for an expensive
building-a stable with good roof, and sides
will battened on inside, and well
banked, will keep stock comfortably through
our winters. When the thermometer showed
the temperature to be 80 deg. below zero OUT
side, the speaker found the temperature inside
his stable 81 deg. above. Light and ~ventila-
ton are important requisites. Windows should
be on the south and east. Ventilators should
be placed in the roof, SO foul air may escape.
Plenty of good water should be within conven-
lent distance of the barn. Another obiectionis
that the feeding season in this state lis too long.
This is a mistake. Make the cattle debtors for
abundant feed and creditors for plenty of good
butter and cheese furnished in return. The
key to success is good feeding. A Minnesota
winter gives a wonderful appetite and a faculty
to convert food into milk.
The committee appointed by Judge Blanch-
ard to report al organization of a butter board
of trade, to be located at Mankato, to be enti-
tied the Butter Board of Southwestern Mime
sofa was announced to be composed as follows;
Col. Clark w. Thompson, Faribault county,
c. E. Marvin, Olmsted county, Mimi. i. @.
Huntington, Cottonwood, county, Mimi. J.. @.
Noe, Blue Earth county, MINI. Recess.
G.. r.. Beach followed with q paper on the
subject. 'Is Dairying a Better Business for a
Farmer of q New Country Than Grain Rails
ingg" The speaker began by contrasting the
farmers of Wisconsin under the wheat raising
system with that they now enjoy in the bust
ness of d~airying. The dairying is a more GER
tain business than grain growing. One objee-
ton to grain growing is that profits are nearly,
if not entirely. consumed in shipping and plac-
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light, and extends through the entire year, In
utter contrast to grain growing.
J. G. Lombard of Chicago followed with q
paper on Legislative Control of Railroads, "
which presented a. in a forcible manner the rail-
road side of the question
ssThe Progress of Dairying in Wisconsin"
was the subject of 9 paper read by y. y. Cur
liarlJ adapted to dairying, Astounding in tame
grasses, good pasturage, pure spring water
and blessed with q favorable climate for max
ing butter and cheese in all seasons OF the year,
yet less than a quarter Of a century ago the
popular verdict was that neither good butter
nor cheese could be made in the west,
there had been serious objections made to
quoting Wisconsin butter and cheese as, West
ern.n but as Western butter and cheese was
nov quoted a cent or two above the regular
market quotations the term Western did not
seem Objectionable. The old log houses and
barns have given way to comfortable farm
houses and commodious barns. The farms
are In a high state Ct cultivation, inc their
bank account bespvaks prosperity in every
home.
]. a. Smith Of Cedarsburg, Wis, read . paper
on the subject ssCheese Production, One Of the
Essential Factors in General Dairying."
Mr.. Smith gave facts and figures to show that
| the making Of cheese, showing the industry to
be as profitable as the making Of butter.
The committee of awards reported The
shall, Mimi, The SIS prize was awarded r
Messrs. ellis & Finnan, Bingham Lake. The
prize OF q valuable shawl, offeredby Mcconnell
4 Co, for the best package of butter, was
awarded to + d. Holmes. The pair Of fine kii
shoes, offered by Messrs. Quebel Bros. for thu
best package Of dairy butter, were given to A
Arnold Of Mankato. The Higgins cup, won las
year by William Fowler Of Newport, Mimi.