St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-15
Advice From the Kentucky Live Stock
Record Which Our Farmers Should
Seriously Think Of.
How the Name of Dictator Game to be
Given to the Noted Brother of
Dexter.
What VIII Become of the Stable OF
Horses Belonging to the Late
George l.. Lorillards
RockfeIlow Thinks He has double
Team That Can Beat Anything
on the Road.
HOW TO FARM.
Some Pretty Sound Advice from the
State of Kentucky.

Some Pretty Sound Advice from the
State of Kentucky.
The Live Stock Record, published at
Lexington, KY, has a very sensible article
upon how to make farming successful. OF
course, the writer speaks from the Ken
lucky standpoint which differs in several
RESPECTS from the conditions that exist here
in Minnesota. What this Southern writer
suggests really amounts to what has been
advised in Minnesota for several years, viz:
Mixed farming. He advises stock raising
and says:
The better class of grass lands in these
states is just suited for the purpose of graz
ing and breeding fine stock, and those who
fail in the business do so from want OF
knowledge, neglect, over-stocking or want OF
capital. Horses brought better prices the
past year than any other class of stock raised
in Kentucky or Tennessee. They sold higher
than any previous year, especially thorough
breds, and for the last five years breeding
thoroughbreds has paid better than any kind
of stock or farming in these depressing times
for agriculturalists. AT present ruling prices
horse breeding, either thoroughbred. trotter,
harness or coach horse, or shorthorns OF good
quality to top herd pays better than feed
ing cattle or ordinary farming. A fat bullock,
years old, at present prices, consumes as
much food every day as good horse and Will
not bring one-third the price of a thorough
bred yearling. There is as much risk in rails
ing one class of animals as the other, and
cattle are subject to as many diseases and
accidents as horses.
HOW TO DO 1T.
The writer then expresses the opinion
that farmers in Kentucky and Tennessee
should make a change and Danish to a
great extent the feeding of bullocks, sheep
and hogs from lands that are so well adapted
for breeding higher and more remunera-
tive class Of stock. 1t is, he asserts, bet
ter business to raise high-class stock than
to feed cattle, sheep and hogs or tilling the
ground to grow corn and grain. The reason
why this writer speaks against raising cat
tie, sheep and hogs is that the lands in
Kentucky are too high priced to enable the
farmer to make money off them. This
reason does not exist here in Minnesota or
the Northwest. Lands here are cheap and
therefore there is money in raising cattle,
sheep and hogs. He thinks that the farm
ers in Kentucky would do best by deyOt-
ing part of their attention and time to the
raising Of thOroughbreds, and says there
are few farmers that cannot keep half
dozen thoroughbred mares along with their
other stock, and there is nothing incom-
patible with the proper management of
farm why an intelligent farmer should not
be able to raise from four to six thorough
breds each year and sell them as yearlings.
The writer concluded as follows:
THE PROFITS THAT ARE IN 1T.
The farmer can raise sufficient other
stock for home consumption and have a
little for sale, and at the same time raise
from four TO half dozen thoroughbred
yearlings, that will, if the mares are prop
erly selected and mated, pay the entire eX-
pense of the farm each year. Racing has
increased beyond the most sanguine eXpec-
tation, and the demand for thoroughbreds
is far beyond the present supply. What is
wanted is plenty of grass in the spring and
summer, good oats and hay in the winter
with good roomy pastures for the young
sters to exercise and expand their limbs
and muscles. In severe winter weather
yearlings should have shelter. This can
be done by cheap building protecting
them from the north, west and east winds
and in the winter they should be fed morn
ing, noon and evening, with shelled oats
and hay, and when brought into the sale
ring as yearlings, if sound and in good
health and condition, will pay the
farmer larger percentage upon the in
vestment than anything else he can raise or
produce on the farm. To give an idea OF
the profits, party bought a thoroughbred
mare Ior S4OO, sold her nrSt yearling at
$500 and the second at So, 200, the only two
colts she had up to the sales made. We
might give other examples, but this is suf-
fcient to show the prices they command
and the profits derived from breeding
thoroughbred yearlingS.
This. OF course, is the extreme Kentucky
race-horSe view of the case. Here in Min
neS0ta the conditions are different. Here
it viii pay to keep cattle aud hogs. 1t will
also pay any farmer to keep two or three
broodmares of the best trotting strains. AS
this writer in the Record says, the farmer
can raise three or four colts and not feel
at all the expense and they will bring him
in good profit. These hints from the
Record are worthy consideration on the
part Of the farmers of Minnesota.