The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-05-21

"'.AAh liNASitSlI, luu 81 L imported u mAD I
from that country just to feed my stock. We
have an agricultural university in Minnesota
with a large endowment. but no place where a
man tan learn to feed cattle. Now l pay my
farmer . $500 year "a voice-"Don't he strike?"l
ana he don't strike. Now the difference between
am,el,geht farming and farming as carried on In
our state. Is the difference between poverty and
wealth. Nowhere where there is . civilized state
OF things Is the soil cultivated with as little in
handed way to do 1t our farmers will find it ont.
and continue in it. A man will get a farm, and
he wants a big one-3O0 or 1000 acres. He will
cultivate 500 acres and put = mortgage on 1t
an, ana expect to work four months in the year.
now there Is no place outside the tropics where
a man can live by working four months a year.
Now it seems that they don't catch on; they
don't find the way to do better. l thought the
Trouble was with the railroads, l heard so much
science. .lGreau laughter.] After considerable
raking found one. Renewed laughter.l All we'll
rssnlated railroads have one daughter and remark
pY Gen. BECKER. He must have used a micro
scope. j wanted to see II 1t was our fault. In
the competition for settlers We find that they
60 to Kansas md Nebraska. where land Is worth
SD or 500 an acre. They can't live here. They
can't raise corn. They want to feed stock in
stead OF going broke on wheat. l don't mean
tne men VINO get rich raising wheat IN Chicago.
lLaughterl
NO MORE HIGH-pR1CED WHEAT.
The day for high priced wheat is gone forever
from This country, and will never return as long
as wheat is raised for export. Some govern
ments want cheap wheat and are willing to put
fields of India, Tho rent paid is gig per
acre. and the price Of transportation from the
more than from DEVILS Lake to Liv-
erpool, and yet they sell it in
been exporting 70 600. 900 or SO, OoO, 900 bush
els per year. Not over $4,000, 900 bushels will
be sent, however, of the present crop. The
average crop in this country is 4o0,0 900 900. or
this we use for bread and seed 1856, 0
900. This leaves 45,OoO.Oo0 bushels, and
the resedqe makes the price for all the
/ balance fhn fprmara NUnnll INV fhIa
$4,000 900 bushels and dump it into
Lake Michigan they would make money by it.
duction Is per cent, they would reduce the
400 0o.0 900 to 10000. 900, and this against
3l5,0 900 for bread and seed would leave
100000 deficit. which wonld bring Dakota
wheat up to 81 a bushel. Now, beside saving
TINS 10 per cent in area. expense and time, the
will be even more profitable. For the last four
years-cvery man must do something for a liv-
ing. Laughter. I have been raising cattle. L
grass and cabbage, a little ground oats and oil
cake. and the last two weeks l put in a handful
of cheap brown brown sugar; l sent four
stock show with six hundred fat cattle,
from older states and states that make a husi-
Illinois show. and they didn't like to see people
coming from Minnesota and compete with them
on fat cattle. Ranchmen were there watching
took the sweepstakes prize for the best two-year
old, and then killed and dressed him. He dressed
al l,3Sl pounds lapplauScl, and be dressed 1l.4
per cent of his gross weight tapplalsel. and that
was better than any other steer ever seen in Chi
cago. Then the butchers came and didn't know
whose OK was being gored. so they were I'M
biased. They gave me the first prize for the
best carcass of dressed meat, the first prize for
the largest percentage of edible food in the car
caas, the first prize for largest per cent of dressed
meat to the live steer. the first prize for the best
meat aud the the gold medal. | took those
prizes with tour steers in competition with 600.
lAppiause.l l ted no corn. l fed them cabbage
and ground oats. My farm had been cultivated
for twenty-five wears. and was pretty bad land.
WHAT HE KNOWS ABOUT
l sowed my turnips with a drill, cultivated
them twice. thinned them out and when ripe
cut the tops OFT with a hoe. 1t cost $3.50 per
acre. the cost being less than one and a half cents
to the bushcl. Now the rst;ons for 100 steers
and Que man can take care of a hundred steers
the rations consist first OF l,OuO bounds
Of hav at SD per ton, and l Will
say that there is enough hay burned in Mime
sofa annually. If sold at So per acre, to pay for
There will be also 1900 pounds OF roots or
seventy bushels, at two cents a bushel-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
800 pounds of feed, or ttty-cight pounds for
each animal, which costs $ 80. or &sol for
ninety days. Now, good stockcrs at a good
price. three and one-half years old, average
weight !, 100 pounds, can be bought for three
cents Il pound, or S3,l5p for the herd, making the
Waking the total Investment III feed and steers
1921. Now, 100 steers should gain 800 pounds
sacn during the ninety days, making their aver
aye weight 400 pounds, or Il total of l4O, 900
pounds, which ut 4 i2c Il pound, would be $4,000.
Now the manure from these animals is worth
onc-third the whole cost. 1t would be cheap at
S267. or u total on the credit side of SG,567, or a
profit of &2.316, or &23.16 to each animal for
three months. [Applause.l
The following is the above information in
4 tabulated form:
Daily ratious for 100 steers
t,pD lba hay al SS Ecr tOn.. 81 20
100 lbs. roots, 20 bn. q &c per bu... ! 40
400 lbs. ground grain e lie per ID. 4 90
200 lbs oil cake q $50 pei tom. 90
800 lbs. for one days casts.......... SO 90
Rattons for ninety DAYS cost ...... SSOl on
100 steers, l.l5Olbs. each, a Sc, cost $500 90
, 100 steers, 400 lbs. each, sell for. 1880 Q 0
Add one-third Atlue for manue 267 90
Total amount of sales............ S6,567 90
'FRONT.'. =. .,..-...-.-.... ....S2.3l6 90
That this can be done and has been done, l can
demonstrate TO any man with ordinary intelli-
scnoc. These figures all allow n margin on the
safe side. We can raise corn in Minnesota, but
we can raise som thing better than corn TO pro-
1nc, beef. It Is impossible to estimate
/. river valey-probahly 30 per cent more than /
q nave given. Nj. Hill argued that the way to
make a market here ia for st. Paul ami Min
= exposing of meat for sale which las
, not been inspected on the hoof.
!, inAt would ODiEe the cattle to be Killed here,
: and We SHOULD have n market and be sure OF
= good, sound, healthy meat. Otherwise. We can't
. compete with the dressed beef men. He spoke
. Of the present absurd arrangement where
! ! Montana sa''' to s0 be 'fG raised, N' "re Shipped I'd
i 70 Chicago aud the Illinois stock farms, are
shipped back TO Chicago, killed there and then
n 5he meat sent here. II we can bring the cattle
acre on the hoot and in good condition, we have
t IN advantage and can afford to pay more for
. We shall have a market, employ
n our own labor, feed our own fodder and not GO
!, md you can't do it on corn or anything else
.han oats.
PRESIDENT BRYAN SAYS A WORD.
Mr.. Stickney then introduced Mr.. 7. J.
: Bryan. president of the Montana Stock.
: growers association, who has had expert
c ence feeding corn in Iowa He said that
9 1e had not figured it down Us close as Mr.
Hill had, but he the gain or
one Durham steer, which weighed
1000 pounds, and cost 800. or five cents
pound. He fed him through the summer tt
December on corn and grass, when he hat
a added 445 pounds. He sold him a
d seven cents, or an advance of TIVE
cents a pound He believed Mr.
Hills estimate was a fair one
also that roots will make better beef tina,
corn. and that by feeding roots one take.
e less risk of affecting ANIMALS with founder
Or other diseases.
FRESH PROM THE n
DR.. Alloway of Montreal was introduced
III as u man who had experience in raising cat
tie in Canada, where they can't raise corn
After a few pleasant and complimentary re
marks, he remarked that he changed his 10
catiod from Canada to the Red river valley
and had not regretted it. He felt great inter
80 est iii che present project. He couldn
DC see why Montana should be at Ii
mercy of Chicago and Kansas City
In Grand Forks and other Re
river towns butchers were entirely sup
"a piled from Chicago and Kansas City. Les
Ill | nItanyiN,, ,,,1r,lI ha ,rpIn ~ 1onart ,,n,
10 could be secured. 1t couldn't be style
reasonably second-class beef. TIL butch