St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-04

with 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 spring-toothed harrow across
the drills. The total cost was S12.6O
per acre and got $50 bushels to the acre.
a cost of less than a cent and a half per
bushel in the cellar. Now have made SONG
figures on the rations of 100 steers, and if he
is good for anything one man can take care Of
them. The estimate is for one days food:
1000 lbs hay q So per ton. .......... si D5
4,20O lbs roots a 2 cents per bu. Ia
400 lbs ground grain q cent per lb. 40
200 lbs oil cake @ $40 per ton 2.O
5,oUU. $S.9(
Making a total for one day of
ninety hogs ..::;:.........:....... sSO1. OG
100 good steers, 81 years old, LOO
lbs a scents per h.. So, 450.Oe
Total. PSI .W
100 steers, each l, 400 lbs O.
4Ac..... $4,000 90
700 90
Add one-third value of food
1Oc manure. 261 W
$50, 567 Oh
'FRONT.'. ................... 2.316 Oh
Profit per head ............ % l.
You have left 81, 316 for the mans time fol
ninety days, or clean profit of 1923. Is pei
head. These Montana men can point out
those who went out there poor ana came
back cattle kings, but they never
made $23.16 per head on their cattle
and don't intend to make one-half of it.
the estimate of roots is the principal item
and have allowed the margin on the safe
| side. They can raise corn in Iowa. Illinois
aui other states, but we have something
| better; roots cost less and are sure crop.
| In the Red River valley think you can raise
| 90 per cent. more roots than here. That better
| cattle are fattened on roots hardened with
| oil cake than on corn cannot be coiftroverted
| We have better soil and better climate than
| the states south of US. Improved lands in
Kansas are worth $40 per acre, in Minnesots
| $25, yet our lands are actually worth twice
| this, but Kansas has ''caught on. Now the
man is not born who can tell by looking
| at the meat whether an animal was
healthy before it was killed, and Dr.
| Allouez will uphold me. If Minneapolis and
| st. Paul will pass ordinances to have meat
rigidly inspected on the hoof the cattle will
have 10 be slaughtered here, and if we don't
do this we can't compete with the boys in this
dressed meat business elsewhere. You can
| make market here If you want to. If you
| make market you will have the cattle. Our
road and the Northern Pacific now take cattle
| to Montana to raise, then ca4ry them to
| Chicago to sell, where one-quarter of them
| will make beef, and poor beef at that, three
quarters are fattened in Illinois; all are killed
| in Chicago, which gets the profit, and we
| bring them back here and carry them to
! Fargo and other towns to supply the butchers
| Now, if you will bring them here in good
| condition, we will buy them and have a mar
| hSG LUZ OuT ONu pSOplt, anu we won get
broke on wheat 1 will show you some cat
| tie and rations to-morrow-catte fed on moth
| ing but roots
Mr.. Stickney said he wished to pursue
the subject further, and called on Col. I. j.
Bryan of Montana. Mr.. Bryan said he
had not the experience like Mr.. Hill in
feeding roots, but had found it profitable to
feed corn at from 20 to so cents per
bushel. If he got an advance
| of
sidered good profit. He gave figures on
a large steer which he had fattened and
sent to Chicago. From April to December
| the steer gained AS pounds. weighing then
2,445 pounds, and sold at cents per pound,
gaining cents. He believed Mr.. Hills
estimates were facts and that better beef
could be made from roots than from corn
and that our Western cattle would take to
roots better.
Dr.. Allouez, formerly of Montreal, now
of the Red River valley, was called upon.
[ have given these subjects good deal of
| consideration, having been in the live stock
| business fifteen or sixteen years, not as in
Montana, but in more civilized and
smaller way. My experience has been
| on farm of from 400 to 500
acres, and when that got too small
l came West, looked over Manitoba, Min
nesota, Dakota and Montana and finally
settled in the Red river valley and have
| never repented it. | take a great interest
| in the proposed abattoir IN st. Paul and
cannot see why Minnesota, Dakota and
Montana should be at the mercy of Kansas
City and Chicago. In my section the
butchers are supplied with meat from Chi
eago and Kansas City, because everybody
is growing wheat. Most of the farmers
have not cattle enough for their own con-
sumption or even pork, but have noticed
that where farmer has little stock he is
wel-to-do and where he is without any he
usually has good-sized mortgage on his
farm. l think if st. Paul undertakes this
| plan she will accomplish it.
No great scientific knowledge ia
required, other cities had to make
| beginning. l think from what see that
st. Paul can become the biggest cattle
market in the world and l can corroborate
Mr.. Hill's statement about feeding roots.
l have seen cattle which never saw corn,
as good as ever were seen in Chicago but
fed on crushed oats and roots. In the
eastern states cattle were fed almost
entirely roots. With reference to
the quality of beef and quarantine
and inspection there cannot too much stress
be put upon them. Minneapolis and ST.
Paul are now the stopping places for de-
ceased meat and tailings. Good meat is
not an easy matter to get. Cattle diseases
are creeping upon us and if they ever
make inroadS here our trade is
done for. Meat should be thoroughly
inspected both on the hoof and after
Strengthening, and this is the only proper
way to prohibit diseased meat coming to
market. An expert butcher can hardly
discover pulmonary disease when the ami
NAL is openee. There is only one way, in
spection on foot and by the microscope.
Maj. Towers of Kansas City presented
some very interesting statistics on the
growth of the cattle business there and
saw no reason why similar DEVELOPMENT
in the trade should not occur in ST. Paul
Some remarks by Col. Hough of Miles CITY
closed the evenings program,
To-DAY'S PROGRAM.
The following program has been az
ranged for to-day: At 10 o'clock this
morning the visitors, with the entertain
ment committee and others, will be taken by
special train, by invitation of Mr. Stickney.
over the Minnesota IL Northwestern road
to West st. Paul as far as the proposed
stock yards and packing houses, to look
over the availability of the ground for these
purposes Returning to the city an engine
from the Manitoba road will take the same
train to White Bear, by invitation of Mr.
Hill. president of the road. at White
Bear the party will be met by Mr.. HIPS
carriages and driven to his stock farm.
where they will be shown around and
served with cream lunch in Mr.. Hills
best style, returning to the city in the after
noon. This evening meeting will be held
III the chamber OF commerce to discuss the
subject of st. Paul cattle market.