Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-05-15
PRACTICAL sToCK.RAIs1Na.
Some Suggestions by q Man Who
Has Tried 1t.

Some Suggestions by q Man Who
Has Tried It.
At the banquet given by St. Paul bus
mess men in honor of the visit of Mon.
tana cattle owners, j. j. Hill, president
Of the Manitoba road, made u speech
from which the following interesting ex.
tracts are taken:
Our people lose sight of one thing.
They think that without corn they can.
not feed cattle. In all the world the
highest priced cattle that are ever sold
are raised and fattened where there was
never All ear Of corr ripened, in the
northern part Of Scotland. The cattle
sold in Aberdeen bring on the average
l cent a pound more than anywhere
else, and they can't raise corn in that
country. l have q farmer whom l i'm
ported to feed my cattle. We Lave a
university with a rich endowment, but
there is no place in the state where a
man can learn to feed cattle. 1pay him
$500 per year. tell you the difference
between good and bad feeding in Min
nesota is the difference between poverty
and wealth. don't think the c%ultiva-
ton of the soil is carried on anywhere
on earth with so little intelligence as in
this state. If there is a lett-handed way
to do a thing they will find it out and
do it. If a has q 1000 acre he will
cultivate 800 and put q good sized mort
gage OF the whole, and pay interest on
the 1000 acres, and then think he can
make a living by working four months
in the year. For the past four years l
have raised cattle, a few at first, but
gradually extended it. Last year | fed
them on grass, cut up q few heads of
cabbage for them, gave a few ground
oats and q little oil cake. The last two
or three weeks l put in i handful Of
cheap brown sugar to make them lick it
up. l sent four Of these cattle to Chi
cago to compete with 600 head from tho
older cattle-growing states, which make
it a business to feed cattle. | found it
was an Illinois show; and there was a
hard fight. They did not like to see
folks come from away up in Minnesota
and enter into competition with them.
l took sweepstakes on a two-year.old
steer, and l killed him. He dressed
1884 pounds, II 4-1O per cent Of his
gross weight, which was better than n
other steer that ever was in Chicago.
The butchers gave me first prize for the
best dressed meat, first prize for the
largest proportion of edible food, 70, the
largest proportion ofdead weight to live
weight, and a gold medal sent over from
Scotland. did not feed them much
corn. ! have 4 field which has been
cultivated for twenty-five years, which
looked like the round hills OF Missouri,
but | MANFRED that sandy land and put
in turnips with a drill, cultivated them
twice, put a boy in to thin them, had
men cut the tops off with sharp hoes
and dragged them out with a SPRING
toothed harrow across the drills. The
total cost was $3.50 per acre, and Lgot
$50 bushels to the acre, a cost Of less
than a cent and a half per bushel in the
cellar. Now | have made some figures
on the rations of 100 steers, and if lie is
good for anything one mar can take
care of them. The estimate for one
days food
1000 tbs. hay g 70 per 81 80
1900 ios. roots g 2 cents per bu...".""....... ! ~
400 lbs. ground grain "a l cent per h"...... 4 90
200 lbs. oil cake a go per on".."........ 10
Making . total Of one day Of ninety
hogs SoOl O
100 good steers, az years old, Hoods.
@ cents per $3.50 on
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100 steers, each 400 lbs. q 4Ac........ $4,000 ~
Add ons-third value Of food for ma
nure 267 W
--sG567 10
S.3lG oO
Profit per head ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 30 10
You have left $23l6 for the mans
time for ninety days, or a clean profit
of $23.l6 per head. In the Red river
valley | think you can raise so per cent
more roots than here. That better cat.
tie are fattened on roots hardened with
oil cake than OF corn cannot be contro-
serted. We have better soil and better
climate than the states south Of us.
Improved lands in Kansas are worth SAC
per acre, in Minnesota s25, yet our lands
are actually worth twice this.
Chamherlain's Pain Balm is without
an equal for the cure of rheumatism,
neuralgia, lame back, sprains and swell
lings. 1t is only so cents per bottle.
This medicine is a household f~ayoritc
wherever known, and has often saved
more than ten times its cost besides
much pain and suffering. When you,
want the best Liniment you have ever
had in the house call at your drug store
for Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Sold by
c. O. Maloney.
Special Agent James. of the land de