The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-02

| ures for their mich cows, they usually
find it more profitable to sell their old
cows to persons who have the feed for
fattening them. So, also, they find it
more profitable 10 purchase young
COWS than to raise them. Lately it has
been suggested that dairy farmers
would be gamers by hiring their COWS
kept during the period they are not
| giving milk The trade that has been
established in calves and cows since
the establishment of exclusive dairy
farms is very large, and gives promise
of increasing.
1t is a well-known fact that some en-
tire countries and certain portions of
countries are well adapted to breeding
cattle and raising them till they have
reached a certain age, but are very
poorly adopted to producing food for
fattening them. Hence a trade in lean
and store cattle springs up. But for
the liability of spreading contagious
diseases, this trade might be made
very profitable to both who raise and
fatten animals. Adam Smith, in his
remarkable book, 1.-The Wealth of Ma
tions," thus refers to this subject:
1.-The prohibition of the Importation
of foreign cattle and of salt provh-
ions, together with the high duties
upon foreign corn, which in times of
moderate plenty amount to prohibit
ton, aTe not near SO advantageous to
the graziers and farmers of Great
Britain as other regulations of the
same kind are to its merchants and
manufacturers. If the importation of
foreign cattle, for example, were made
ever go free, so few could be imported
that the grazing trade of Great Britain
could be little affected by it. Live
cattle are, perhaps, the only commod-
ity of which the transportation is more
expensive by sea than by land. By
land they carry themselves to market;
by sea, not only the cattle, but their
food and water too, must be carried,
at no small expense and Inconvenience.
The short sea between Ireland and
Great Britain, indeed, renders the i'm
pOrtation of Irish cattle more easy.
But though the free importation of
them, which was lately permitted only
for limited time, were rendered per-
petual, it could have no considerable
effect upon the interest of the graziers
of Great Britain. Those parts Of Great
Britain which border upon the Irish
sea are all grazing countries. Irish
cattle could never be imported for
their use, but must be driven through
these very extensive countries, at no
small expense and. inconvenience, be-
fo1e they could arrive at their proper
market. Fat cattle could not be driven
so far Lean cattle, therefore, could
only be imported, and such importa-
tiOn would interfere, not with the in
terest of the feeding or fattening
to which, by reducing the
price of lean cattle, it would rather be
advantageous, but with that of the
breeding countries only. Feeding and
countries, besides, must al
ways be highly improved, whereas
countries are generally un-
The high price of lean
cattle by augmenting the value of un-
cultivated land is like bounty against
To any country Which
S highly improved throughout it
would be more advantageous to i'm
port its lean cattle than to breed them.
The province of Holland, accordingly,
S said to follow this maxim at pres
mt. The mountains of Scotland,
Wales and Northumberland, indeed,
re countries not capable of much i'm
and seem destined by ma
ure to be the breeding countries of
treat Britain. The freest importation
( foreign cattle could have no other
feet than to hinder those breeding
ountries from taking advantage of
ne increasing population and I'M
rovement of the rest of the kingdom,
,om raising their price to an exorbi-
INT height, and from laying real tax
pom all the more improved and cult
ated parts of the country"
AS the dairy farmers located on
land find it Improbable to
'ise calves to supply the places of the
ID cows IN their herds, SO the cattle !
eders who are the owners of good I
,rn land in Illinois, Missouri, and
IVA may find it Improbable to raise /
10 animals they propose to convert i
TO beef. The farmers in other parts ,
the country may find the profit in a
'eeding and raising cattle large, but !
% profit in fattening them small. In {
nth, this condition of affairs has al +
ady been reached. The breeding of {
title in most of the southern states is n
tended by comparatively few diff 6
lilies. The raising of the animals G
! they are of an age to stand trans b
'rtat:on is also easy. There is d
arcity. however, of suitable material h
r fattening them. The climate is not D
tied to the production OF roots which Il
largely relied on in England for D.
ttening animals. The yield of corn W
also poor, as is that of small grain 81
table for stock food. and grass &C
lich will make good hay. In near is
lure we may look to see many cattle Fl
Ken from the states south of the tb
10 and east of the Mississippi to In bl
ma and Illinois for the purpose of be
ng fattened. 1t is not unlikely that in
life of the calf may be passed in OF
, state, the life of the yearling in co
,ther, and that of the steer in a ab
I'd. Recently young cattle raised W,
Texas have been driven to the -
thern territories where they re- of
in year or more and are taken to is
corn regions of Nebraska and re,