Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12
THE STOCK.BREEDER.
Plus IN Pens.

One of the difficulties in keeping pigs in the
pen, remarks q swine raiser, is in providing
something to distend their stomachs If in
~ season utclover is fed green to pigs where
they will eat it clean, it is nearly or quite
sQnal to keeping them IN clover pasture. They
vii even cat some clover hay III winter when
led with meal OF grain, though this cannot be
| made q simple food, as it may be for other
fna stock -indcpcmdem.
imcrican Short-IiorM Cattle aud their
Characteristics.
The number Of breeders of thoroughbred
pa!igrce short-horns in the United States, its
Territories, and Canada can be safely esti-
Aaped ut full four thousand, with herds of half
dozen to several scores Of cattle each. They
extend all over North America between the
Atlantic and Pacific shores, aud to the lower
southern States Texas and New Mexico, wher-
yer climate and soil are SUI table, and proper
forage is produced for their sustenance, and
n numbers too large for accurate estimate.
Although considerable numbers of other good
fcsl- producing breeds for several years past
layc been I'm pOrted from abroad, and success
fully bred, chiefly in the Western States, in
competition with the short horns, the demand
tor short horn bulls is greater than that for
al other breeds, to cross upon and elevate the
ldaiity of common cattle, not only in their own
toeaiitles, but also for the extensive grazing
tancfes of tho further West, to improve the
ils there. Many hundreds OF young short
horn bulls are annually taken to the ranches
tor breeding purposes.
superior When not fatted to excess, it is DIS
tflbnted all over the carcass, finely marbled
IN combination Of fat and lean. They mature
foprotitab!e slaughter as veal calves ut slX or
sight weeks old of much greater weight than
common ones on equal supplies of milk from
the u;ders of their dams. The steers at two
and a half years old, when properly fed at
tain live weight of 800 to 900 pounds, and
are ripe for the shambles At three to three
and half years they attain a live weight of
Is seldom profitable. The American exports
to Europe-Great Britain chiefy-for the first
six months of the yelr 1885 Of live bullocks
was more than g., 900 head, aside from the
largely increased weight of dead carcasses IN
Quarters of fresh beef, almost exclusively OF
foreign markets. The best beef for consump-
non i'll our American cities and towns is also
of short-horn blood, and commands price
considerably above that Of common cattle.
For longevity and hardhood in all climates
where Il cd tloy are remarkable III both sexes.
humorous bulls both in Eng land and amer,
lea, might be named which have contlnued
successful sires to twelve, fifteen, and even
more ycals of age. The American bull, Baron
OF Oxford, 1926, bred by Mr. Becar, OF Long
Island, one of the most successful sires, maln-
famed his vigor until nearly fourteen years
olu, when a fatal accident befell HIM.
The cows, as IN lkers, when bred and edu-
Gated for tho dairy, have proved equal to any
other breeus, their docility of disp 'sitlon ano
Tymphatic temperament highly promoatlne
their tactical product. In England from thell
earliest days, large numbers of them have
proved extraordinary mixers and butter,
yt@iders, and i'll the metropolitan Aries tol
mix supply, as well as on farms for cliecst
ana butter production, they are eXtenslvel,
used. In their earlier impor atoms to Amer q
'ic COWS, az rule, were abundant mixers
as many now continue to be; but their ear
ana a.; RAPID tendency to flesh, more particular!
IN the Western beef producing States, has le.
70 neglect of their dairy qualities, butter ant
c.,heese production there being less ioilo"e'
man man III many other localities. Yet IN thorough
oreds, or high grades from native COWS, we:
are largely bred and kept for dairy use 4
many of our States, and profitable throngl
me on average pasture in summer, am
wholesome keep in the colder months. Man:
COWS might be named as continuing constah
.oroedt-. and largo mixers u til fifteen, eve v,
twenty. years old, and fatted into profi'a,,Dl
ses of beef at the end -Leois n. AHe'
W Haypet's Mn0aziue