Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-05-13
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been exporting 20 600 900 or so, 900, 900 bush
els per year. Not over 100000 bushels vii
be sent, however, OF the present crop. tn
average crop in this country Is 4O0,00o.00O. Ol
this we use for bread and seed $4,000
600 This leaves 45,00O,O00 bushels, AM
the residue makes tho price for all thu
balance IL the farmers would buy thu
$4,000 600 bushels and dump IL int
Lake Michigan they would make money by 1t
But they needn't do it: IL they reduce the pro
duction - per cent, they would reduce tn
100 900, 600 TO $4,000, 600, and this agains
$4,000. 600 for bread and seed would leaV
/ $4,000, 900 deficit, which would bring Dakoti
! wheat up to 81 bushel Now beside savin!
/ this Is per cent in area expense and time, tn
farmer can put 10 another crop tina
| will be even more profitable. For the last foul
years-every man must do something for liV.
ing. [Laughterl / have been raising cattle.
commenced in a small way. / fed my steers OF
grass and cabbage, little ground oats ana q
OF cheap brown sugar. sent fou
| steers to Chicago to compete in thu
stock show with six hundred fat cattle
from older states and states that make bust
| ness of feeding cattle. At Chicago found 1t al
| Illinois show, and they didn't like to see peop
! coming from Minnesota and compete with then
| on fat cattle. Ranchmen were there watching
| them, and the result made them look blue
| took the sweepstakes prize for the best two-yea
old, and then killed and dressed him. He dressed
| at 1881 pounds GapplauseI, and he dressed 7l.4
per cent OF his gross weight [appiauseI, and that
was better than any other steer ever seen in Chi
/ cago. Then the butchers came and didn't know
] whose OK was Delng gOreu, so Iney were uH
| biased. They gave me the first prizs for th'
best carcass of dressed meat, the first prize fol
/ the largest percentage of edible food in the car
cass the first prize for largest per cent OF dressed
meat to the live steer the first prize for the bes
/ meat and the the gold medal. l took thos,
| prizes with four steers in competition with 600
| lAppianse.l fed no corn. fed them eabbag,
| and ground oats. My farm had been cultivated
for twenty five years, and was pretty bad land
WHAT HE KNOWS ABOUT FARMING.
sowed my turnips with drill, cultivated
! them twice, thinned them out and when ripe
] cut the tops of with noe. 1t cost SI2. 80 pei
/ acre to raise them, and got $50 bushels to the
acre, the cost being less than one and half cent:
! to the bushel Now the rstions for 100 steers
| and one man can take care of hundred steers
the Tations' consist first of 1000 pounds
! of hay at IS per ton, and L vii
say that there is enough hay burned in Mime.
! sofa annually, II sold at 50 per acre, TO pay fol-
| the entire wheat crop of the state for five years
There will be also ZOO pounds Of roots OF
seventy bushels, at two cents a bushel-and
| mine didn't cose one and half cents, and
/ raised on poor soil Next CONS 400 pounds
| Of ground grain at one cent per pound
/ and 200 pounds of oil cake at $50 per ton. The
total rations then for 100 steers for one day are
/ ), 500 pounds of feed, fifty-eight pounds fol-
| each animal, which costs 80, or 1901 for
/ ninety days Now, good stockers at good
/ price, three and one-half years old, &verage
/ weight l. $50 pounds, can be bought for three
cents pound, or S3, 450 for the herd making the
4 making the total investment in feed and steers
/ I21l Now, 100 steers should gain 800 pounds
/ eaen during the ninety days, making their aver
| age weight 400 pounds, nr total Of 10000
pounds, which at 4 l2o pound, would be So, 300.
( Now the manure from these animals is worth
one third the whole cost. 1t would be cheap at
1897 or total on the credit side of SO, 56T, or
| profit of S2,316, or $23. l6 to each animal for
/ three months. tApplauseI
| The following is the above information in
q tabulated form:
Daily rations for 100 steers
| / 900 lbs hav q 50 per tOn........... 81 so
! 400 lbs roots, 20 bu. g &c per bu.s 40
400 lbs ground grain g lie per ID. 90
200 lbs oil cake g $50 per tom. 90
5, 800 lbs for one days casts. So 90
Rations for ninety days cost go. Ss0I 90
100 steers, ], $50 lbs each, @ &c. cost $3.50 90
100 steers SoI 400 lbs each, sell Tor 800 co
Add one-third Atlue for manue........ 267 90
Total amount of sales. $6,567 90
That hi. can he dome and has been done can an
demonstrate TO any man with ordinary intelli-
gence These figures all allow margin on the
safe side. We can raise corn in Minnesota but
we can raise something better than corn TO pro-
ducs beef. 1t is impossible TO estimate
what the growth of roots would be in the Red
river INDEPENDENTLY 80 per cent more than
have given. Mr.. Hill argued that tho way to
make a market here il for st. Paul and Min
neapOlis to pass ordinances forbidding the
exposing of meat for sale which has
not been inspected on the hoof.
That would oblige the cattle to be killed here,
and we should have a market and be sure of
good, sound healthy meat. Otherwise, we can't
OF the present absurd arrangement where
by cattle go from Minnesota to
Montana to be raised. are shipped
shipped back to Chicago. killed there and then
the meat sent here. II we can bring the cattle
here on the hoOf and in good condition, We have
sn advantage aud can afford to pay more for
stockers until we raise our own
We shall have market, employ
1ur own labor, feed our own fodder and not go
bIoke on wheat. The figures are unmistakable,
than eats.
PRESIDENT BRYAN SAYS WORD.
Mr.. stickney then introduced Mr. T. j,
Bryan, president of the Montana Stock
growers association, who has h had expert
snces feeding corn in Iowa jHe said that
he hd not figured it down al close as Mr..
Hill had, but he rememberdl the gain on
one Durham steer, which weighed
1000 pounds, and cost 500 or five cents a
pound. He fed him through tie summer to
December on corn and-srassswhen he had
added 445 pounds He sold him at
seven cents, or an advance of two
cents pound He believed Mr..
Hills estimate was fair one,
also that roots will make better beef than
corn. and that by feeding roots one takes
less risk Of affecting animals with founders
or other diseases
FRESH FROM THE RANGES
DR.. Alloway of Montreal was introduced
as man who had experience in raising cat
tie in Canada, where they can't raise corn.
After few pleasant and complimentary re-
marks, be remarked that he changed his To-
catiod from Canada to the Red river valley,
and had not regretted it. He felt great inter
est in the present project He couldn't
see why Montana should be at the
mercy, of Chicago and Kansas City.
In Grand Forks and other Red
river towns butchers were entirely sup
piled from Chicago and Kansas City. Less
objection would be made if decent meat
could be secured 1t couldn't be styled
reasonably second-class beef The butch
ers said that their supply was not a steady
one, and they wouldn't denend on the local
market, because every one in his neghbnr-
hood was turning his attention exclusively
to wheat Most of them had no live
stock at all; He also, noticed that the
man that had little live stock
with none had usually mortgage
on his place Ii was a wonder to him that
St Paul bad not started this scheme earlier
than this. Some said st Paul could not
compete with Chicago and Kansas City. He
though this slur on St Paul-that what St
Paul undertook she would do There was
no reason why all of these industries could
not be proiitably conducted here. He
thought St Paul could be made one of the
greatest cattle centers on the continent If
not the greatest He corroborated all of
Mr.. Hill's arguments. and added that he had
seen cattle as good as any in Chicago
raised on grain different from corn
oats, barley, peas, and linSeed or oil
cake and roots. In Massachusetts,, COnnec-
tiCut and other Eastern States they feed
rootG largely. If the new project at Duluth
succeeds. we can certainly succeed here.
He thought LEO bushels of roots, instead
of 500, could be grown TO the acre with
great ease. The recklessness of Minnesota
farming IS simply the result of the generosity
OF the soil Eastern farmers would think
Western farming one species of insan-
ity. Potatoes were good to feed, and
could be raised cheaply. He thought
there was IaXiJy heredbout with
reference to cattle disease This is gradually
creeping upon us 1t comes from the East,
and is coming West II it comes this way
our cattle trade is done for. In answer to
questions from Mr.. Baker, he said that there
is no way to distinguish diseased meat ex-
cept through the microscope. and that it
could be sold on the market without fear of
detection Whether there was danger of
people becoming diseased from eating meat
diseased with pleuro pneumonia, was aques-
ton not yet ascertained, but .aany other
forms of disease in cattle were communi-
cable to man. So there was no safety ex-
cept in inspection both before and after
Strengthening.
INCLINED TO DISCUSS IT.
DR.. Alloway and Mr., Baker had some dis
cussion on the subject, the former claiming
that disease can be only discovered by the
use of the microscope. The speaker then
turned his remarks to the subject of expert
mental farms. He answered the objection
usually offered by stating that there are sew
crai successful experimental farms in
tie country, and none that made
better showing than that OF Mr.. Hill, that the
Montana gentlemen are to visit to-day. The
allusion TO Mr. Hill's EARN was received with
applause President Stickney then called
upon Mai Tower of Kansas City for re-
marks. That gentleman responded by Civ
ing BRIEF resume OF the stock business
transacted in Kansas City. He showed
that most OF the cattle received
as that point came mainly from Texas over
the Union Pacific railroad In 1875 the
trade declined somewhat, but year or two