St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-26
IMPROVE THE STOCK.
Some Valuable Suggestions Ter
Those Interested.

Those who keep COWS for dairy purposes
are very far from doing themselves justice
if they do not keep or have within easy
reach a thoroughbred bull with which to
grade I'D the stock they have. Too many
farmers. vastly too many, neglect this
reasonable provision to their great annual
loss and to the deterioration of their stock.
They think they are doing all that is neces-
sary when they breed their cows simply to
keen up the flow of milk, losing sight OF
the fact that by using the right kind OF
bull they can, i'll very few years. so I'm
prove their COWS as to nearly double the
quantity of milk There is no department
of farm life in which one can afford to neg
lect point 50 important as this, point
which, if well considered and properly car
ried into effect. cannot fail to add many
dollars annually to the
VALUE OF EVERY COW
in the dairy and a much larger revenue
from their produce. Indeed, such IS the
competition in business that unless one
watches every point of advantage and
makes the most and best of 1t, he will
barely make both ends meet.
Thsre is no better time than the leisure
moments Of this season of the year. to con-
slider this question and make preparations
to begin the improvement of the herd with
the coming spring.
In spite of the evidence presenting itself
on every hand, there are those who believe
that the efforts which so many farmers are
making to introduce better stock on their
pastures will bring them no return. 10
the testimony everywhere present among
us, and which ought to convince every man
sufficiently intelligent to understand the
relations of cause and effect, let US add
''clincher'' from abroad. If opinions on
this subject from any source
SHOULD HAVE WEIGHT,
we should certainly respect the expression
of the London Live Stock Journal, the eX-
ponent of the live stock industry in a
country where it has received more stimulus
from improved blood than in any other.
The following words are from that journal:
I'VE are justly proud of our improved farm
stock. Our pure-bred cattle. horses, sheep
and pigs, are admired and sought after by
the enterprising farmers and stOckmen OF
many foreign countries. The agricultural
wealth of our kingdom has been greatly
enhanced by the extension and improve
mems that have taken place in breeding
and rearing farm stock. But while much
pIDSIeSS lids DCCH ljoSiO pullllS 1COClIG
decades there is ample room for still
further improvement and extension. Our
home supply of store cattle, as well as of
riding and driving horses. is far short of
the demand. and in the rank and file of all
the important varieties of our
EARN LIVE STOCK
there is need for very considerable improve
ment in character"
What does all this mean? Can we infer
anything else from it than that those
already interested in improvements in this
country should redouble their efforts, and
that every doubter should join in the cru
SADIE against the poor and Improbable
stock so prevalent in our midst? There
can be no doubt that, with such stock as
too many American farmers are satisfied
with, stock-raising would have persisted
generations ago from among the agricul-
tural specialties conducted on the hi GIL
priced farms of England. 1t can be set
down with safety as a fixed principle in
farm management that mean stock cannot
be successfully and prOfitably grown for
term of years on high-priced lands. This
fact more than any other has driven the
farmers of England to Improvement; and as
lands advance in this country the same fact
will become more potent factor in farm
progress. There is but one side in discus
sion of this subject.