The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-14

Upon this matter l have tried to consider the
question fairly and upon its merits. It has oc-
surred 10 lie that the location sAcald he ont
side the city proper, easily accessible to the city.
with good drainage and plenty of water. Such
a location / have secured, located about four
mics down the river from the city. IL does not
follow, OF course, because / have purchased this
land for this purpose. 1t is the best location, or
that such establishments should be located
there. In whatever we may do In this matter l
want the hearty cooperation of every business
mar and clt1zen-and all these matters must be
decided on their merits.
]. J. HILLS REMARKS.
Mr.. StickneY introduced President James
J. Hill, of the Manitoba road. as a Minnesota
stock feeder who was qualified to speak from
experience on the subject of the cost and
profit Of feeding stock Mr.. Hill was re-
I esiyed with applause, and spoke substan-
TALLY as follows:
Minnesota in 1879. If he had taken the figures
for 1885 he would have found that Iowa-and
Iowa l consider in the front rank of agricultural
! states-in 1885 raised thrty-five bushels of corn
to the acre, while Minnesota raised thirty -seven
and a half bushels. [Applausel. We have a
county = Kandiyohi-where it was said
county raised last year 10000 bushels on poor
land too, and didn't ship a bushel, and fed 1t to
cattle. lhad l38 acres in corn and raised an
average of hfty-three and ~one-half bushels 20
the acre. 1t was not touched with frost and /
harvesteG y. A few years ago it was said
a iIad was pretty far from home when
uC was "hCIG JLlGN COuIu .hDb Id IS6
corn. Now a man goes a good ways from home
aud finds he can raise corn. It's hard to say
what you can and what you cannot raise. There
is one thing the people lose sight Of when they
undertake to feed cactle-that they can do it
without corn. The highestprice paid in the world
for cattle sold on the hoof is in a country where
they never raise an ear of corn and don't feed 1t.
That is in the northeast OF Scotland, in the
county Of Aberdeen. They send their
animals to market in better condition
and get one cent or three-duarters OF z
cent a pound at least more from them than any
other cattle in the market, and they can't raise
corn. Now | can't afford 70 be wasteful In my
farming llaughterl, and so l imported a man
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 | pay my
farmer $500 a year "a voice-"Don't he strike?"l
and he don't strike, Now the difference between
intelligent farming and farming as carried on in
our state Is the difference between poverty and
wealth. Nowhere where there is q civilized state
OF things Is the soil cultivated with as little in
telligence as in Minnesota. If there is a left
handed way to do 1t our farmers will find 1t out,
and continue in it. A man will get a farm, and
ne wants a big one-3O0 or 1000 acres. He will
cultivate 500 acres and put a mortgage on it
all ana expect to work four months in the year.
Now there is no place outside the tropics where
q man can live by working four months a year.
Now 1t seems that they don't catch on; they
don't ind the way to do better. / thought the
trouble was with the railroads, 1 heard so much
about IL, and so / examined our own con-
science. IGreat laughter.l After considerable
raklng | found one. Renewed laughter All well
regulated railroads have one laughter and remI ark
by Cen. Becker, He must have used a micro
scope. l wanted TO see IL it was our fault. In
the competition for settlers we find that they
goto Kansas and Nebraska. where land is worth
Sl5 or $50 an acre. They can't live here. They
can't raise corn. They want to feed stock in
stead OF going broke on wheat. / don't mean
the men who get rich raising wheat in Chicago.
: lLaughter.l
NO MORE H~rGH-PR1cED WHEAT.
The day for high-uriced 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
up money to get it. Great Britain paid three
hundred millions sterling TO open the wheat
fields of India. The rent paid is 3l2 per
acre, and the price of transportation from the
interior to the seaport at Calcutta is
more than from Devils Lake to Liy-
liverpool for rs cents per bus6el. We have
been exporting 70.000,0 900 or $4,000, 600 BUSH
els per year. Not over 10000 600 bushels will
be sent, however, OF the present crop. The
average crop in this country Is AGO. o 900. Of
this we use for bread and seed 3o5,00O,-
the resedue makes the. price for all the
balance. II the farmers would buy this
45, 000.00 bushels and dump it into
Lake Michigan they would make money by It.
But they needn't do it; If they reduce the pro-
duction ID per cent, they would reduce the
400, 100000 to $40, 900, 1000, and this against
3l5, o0O, 600 for bread and seed would leave
Is, ZOO, 900 deficit, which would bring Dakota
wheat up to 81 a busheL Now, beside saving
this Is per cent in area. expense and time, the
farmer can put in another crop that
will be even more profitable. For the last four
years-every man must do something for a ltv-
ing. [Laughterl. l have been raising cattle. /
commenced in a small way. fed my steers ON
grass and cabbage, a little ground oats ana OIL
cake, and the last two weeks / put in a handful
of cheap brown sugar. / sent four
steers to Chicago to compete in the
stock show with six hundred fat cattle,
from older states and states that make a bust
ness of feeding cattle. At Chicago / found 1T an
Illinois show. and they didn't like TO see people
coming from Minnesota and compete with them
on fat cattle. Ranchmen were there watching
them, and the result made them look blue. i
took the sweepstakes prize for the best two-year
old, and then killed and dressed him. lie dressed
at ]. 1884 pounds [applausel, and he dressed II a
per cent of his gross weight [applausel, and that
was better than any other steer ever seen In Chi
eago. Then the butchers came and didn't know
whose OK was being gored. SO they were un-
biased They gave me the first prize for the
best carcass of dressed msat, the first prize for
the largest percentage of edible food In the car
cass, the first prize for largest per cent Of blessed
meat to the live steer. the first prize for the best
meat and the the gold medal. l took those
prizes with four steers in competition with 600.
Applause.l I fed no corn. fed them cabbage
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 a drill, cultivated
them twice. thinned them out and when ripe
cut the tops off with a hoe. 1t cost $3.50 per
acre to raise them, and / got $50 bushels TO the
acre, the cost being less IMAM one anu y naiI CENTS
TO the bushel. Now the rstions for 100 steers
and one man can take care of q hundred steers
the rations consist first Of 1000 pounds
Of hay at So per ton, and i will
saw that there Is enough hay burned in Mime
sofa annually, If sold at So per acre, TO pay for
the entire wheat crop Of the state for five years.
There viii be also 400 pounds OF roots OF
seventy bushels, at two cents a bushei-apd
mine didn't cose one and a half cents. and
raised on poor soil. Next CONS 400 pounds
Of ground grain at one cent per pound,
"a oa0 Mounds az oil cake at $50 per ton. The
total ~rations then for 100 steers for one day are
$500 pounds of feed, or fifty-eight pounds for
each animal, which costs s 80. or 1901 for
ninety days. Now, good stockers at Q good
price. three and one-half years old. average
weight 1,15O pounds, can be bought for three
cents o pound, or SO, 450 for the herd, making the
"a OIL Now. 100 steers should gain $50 pounds
80, drring tha ninety DAVIS. making their aver