Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-29
A BON Homme FARM.

"o" Asopf0s0ntatlvo GrangeE Thr1VeS ON
Cattle. Hoxs and Corn.
1oMsP'sss and Dakotatan.
Last Saturday, Oct. 25th, your CORES.
pondent visited Jas. K. Cooley, one Of
Bon Homme county's most enterprisinR
stock growers. Mr.. Cooley lives about
hve miles west Of north Of Bon Homme
village. After We had enjoyed the hos
pltallties of his home IN the line of .
good dinner. We vent ont to view his
stock and farm. FIRST we were shown
his corral for his fatting cattle. In this
Enclosure he feeds eighty head, all steers.
Some of these are of colossal pro-
portions of the Texas breed. By the
time these four car loads of steers are
ready for the market Mr.. Cooley re-.
marked he purposed to realized an aver
age weight of fourteen hundred pounds
to the steer and we doubt not it will ex-
ceed those figures rather than fall below.
One hundred and twelve thousand
pounds of beef for one farmer is no
trihe.
Turning to the lower part OF the cor.
raj noticed what in our distant ap.
proach appeared like sail boat. "What
have you here!" your correspondent
asked. "Oh, that is my invention put
in position on trial two days ago to bear
the burden Of supplying water Tor this
herd which you must know is not Q small
affair. The cost was less than five dollars,
all told labor added, and you see this
capacious tank has been filed and run.
ming over, the result Of one nights work.
The sails so adjusted as to utilize the
wind from Whatever quarter it blows
the Windmill did its work all the same
backward or forward.
l said to Mr.. e.: You owe it to your
poor neiahbor Who could not in any way
scrape together money sufficient to buy
one of the prairie adornments costing
500 less or more. to tell them of your
wonderful cheap invention which
answers oil the purpose of the great
windmill. What difference will 1t make
SO long as the cheap institution does its
work all the same'
From the corral, We next went
north q full quarter to eco
his swine herd. Three barbed
wires low down kept these "porkers"
in their place. On one side, the pen opens
on fine lake, plenty IN water from four
to six feet deep in the middle part; no
windmill required to raise the water here,
the hogs have plenty as they attest. To
supply this herd Of lis head and the
steers in the corral. Mr.. Cooley has
raised . crop of corn of 1925 acres Of good
sound grain, filled out plump and COM
plete to the end of the cob. These l15
head will average from $50 to 400
pounds each, by the January market.
Then the stock hogs. and the young
cattle range in stalks and timothy
fields and eat blue grass which
is successfully grown on
this rancho. I was shown an ear of corn
which this model stock raiser brought
from his native state lately dear, old
Maryland, which counted eighteen rows
and si1ty-seven plump grains to the row.
| suppose he looks on these ears "a
models which he hopes to scribe up to
in coming years.
Now put sixteen years in the past ont
of history, and the wild green and lake
beds possessed the Cooley farm.
Bon BONNIE is beginning to look up.
The carpenters are to-day busy at work
in constructing second store for
this historic, dear old town.
Bon Homme, Oct. 28th. D. B. N.