The Mineral argus., 1884-03-06

in seven days; gain each per day, 21-2pounds.
They were fed as follows:
280 lbs skim milk at2jc. ............... ~
a lbs corn -
20 lbs of hay at S10perton................ %
Total feed expense. ...............$l 10
Cost per pound, 3 1-1Ocents, to compare with
June s, 1878, s pigs weighed 327 pounds:
June p, 423 pounds, a gain IN thirteen days OF
96 pounds. They were fed 439pounds OF skim
milk and 217 pounds of corn; Creditlng the
milk with 6 1-2 pounds per 100 would make -
- pounds increase from 60 pounds of shelled
corn. Figuring the milk at % cents per lG0
pounds and the corn at 30 cents per bushol
market price at timo) the pork cost 2-%1-lOO
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 s%prightly, well written, prac-
( teal paper by Mrs. Currles embOdylng her OK
p~erience in butter making. But my own OK
perience is to furnish a good warm stable,
warm their milk, feed a little bran and shorts
or oats every day, and have q rack aud keep it
filled 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, I consid-
or 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 18th the first business was
the reading of n paper by Hon. Hi
ram smith Of sheBoygan Falls, wis.
lie said Prof. u. Stewart, the best authority on
cattle feeding, gives as q standard ration for
mich ows, daily, 2i pounds of dry organic
substance, andthis ration should consist of ?
- pounds albuminoids, II ID pounds of car
Donates and 40-1O0 fat. Thirty pounds of hay
will produce the dry substance, but viii be
deficient III albuminoids and fat; 30 pounds of
hay at SO per ton costs - cents; a much bet
ter ration, consisting of corn fodder 1|0pounds,
hay 5 pounds, bran 5 pounds, malt sprouts 5
pounds, corn meal 3 pounds, and oil meal ,
pounds, Will cost no more than the hay, and is
worth more as a feed, and three ines more for
manureal value. Modern dalrymen are learn
ing that cows coming into milk in the fall or
early winter bring IN a much larger revenue
than summer daiTying.
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.. O. Grigg of
Camden, Mimi, on the subject Minnesota as n
dairy state. This is emphatically a grass
growing state. Wild grass grows ~abundantly.
1t was the home of tho buffalo long before the
white mon settled here. Tho 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 stable with good roof, and sides
will battoned 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 object.onis
This is a mistake. Mako the cattle debtors for
abundant feed and creditors for plenty of good
butter and cheese furnished in return. The
key to success is good fep5ing. A Minnesota
winter gives q wonderful appetite and a faculty
to convert food into milk.
The committee appointed by Judge Blanch-
ard to report an organization of q butter board
OF trade, to be located at Mankato. to be emit
tied the lutte Board of Southwestern Mime
sofa was announced to be composed as follows:
Col. Clark w. Thompson. Faribault county,
Mimi. 4. =. Clark. Chippewa county. Mimi.
c. Il. Marvin, Olmsted couutv. MINI. T.. G.
Huntington. Cottonwood. county. Mimi. J. G.
Noe, Blue Earth county, MINI Recess.
O. r.. Beach followed with q paper on the
subject. rs Daitving a Better business for a
Farmer OF a New Country Thaa Grain Rails
ing?" The speaker began by contrasting the
farmers of Wisconsin under the wheat raising
system with that they now enjoy in the bust
ness of dairving. The dairving Is a more Ger
tain business than grain growing. One obiec-
ton to grain growing is that profits are nearly.
If not entirely. consumed in shipping and plac-
ing it in the market The labor in 1airying is
light, and extends through the entire year, in
utter contrast to grain growing.
j. G.. Lombard OF Chicago followed with a
paper on 'Legislatiye Control Of Railroads.
which presented in q forcible manner the rail
road side Of the question
seThe Progress of Daiiying in Wisconsin"
was the subject Of q paper read by d. W. Cur
It's, Of Fort Atkinson, Wis. The state is pecu-
larly adapted to dairving. Astounding in tame