The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-05-13

1ndertake to fesd o6a5t1e-that tbey can ID :,
without corn, The highest price paid in the world
o anS ann where
That is in the northeast Of Scotland. in tho
county q aberdeen. They send = th vai
ss osas Or in better
cent pound at least more from them than anS
ooner oSssae y ne market and they can't raise
corn sGT eans afford to DO wasteful in my
from that country just to feed nv Stock, we W.
i,is an agrlouitural university In Minnesota
VIII g. large endowment. but no place where
year Ssssle aSw h pay ny
and he don't strike. Now the difference t betWeen
lnIesgenG farming and farming 40 carried on In
wealth: Nowhere where there is a Civilized state
o. gnangs 10 inc soil cultivated with as little In
Sanded @aa as ~ n Minnesota there
and continue in 1t. A man will get farm and
ne wants pig one-50o or 1000 acres. liz viii
o!i IVA 5Uo acres and put mortgage on it
Now there is no place outside the tropies WHARF
man can live by working four monihs n YEAR
N0% u rs seems that they don't catch on; they
rouSo s1 Wt MaX 20 a9 better thought the
a actenoa IT, and 50 I examined our own CON
rskna ughter After
10y 1laIeq railroads. have one laughter and remark
ny yen becker. He must have used micro
s Scope wanted to see Il it was fault. In
onG fSr settlers We find that they
PIP or $2o an acre; They can't live here. They
can RAISE corn They want to feed stock in
s ~ :, OF gong broke on wheat. don't mean
lLaughter.1 "a tTT.1 .}',IS,''i
NO MORE MaH-pn1oED WHEAT,
En- me gay for hiRh-prtced wheat is gone forever
as wheat Is raised for export. Some govern
ments want cheap wheat and are willing to put
up Sn money to get 1t. Great Britain paid three
acre, and the price 81 transportation from he Rs
moee thin to the at Calcutta Is
eefIp po, and yet: ethey sell . II in
e esen sxgon ~ s0 bush
average crop in this country Is 400. ooo. 900. Of
nnn We %,, use for bread and seed $4,000.
Be- o@S am II the farmers would buy This
But they needn't do IT.; II they reduce the pro-
e o5o and this iS'q aest Sns
$1,000 900 deficit. which would bring Dakota
wheat up to ST q busheL Now, beside saving
this 10 per cent in area, expense and time. the
will DO even more profitable For the last four
years.every man must do. something for o liv--
ing. naughterl. I have been raising cattle. I
grass and cabbage. a little ground oats and oil
cake. and the last two weeks put in handful
Of cheap h RsGwn sugar sent four
stock show with six hundred fat CATTLE
from older states and states TINT make bust
ness Of feeding CATTLE. At Chicago found 1t an
coming from Minnesota and compete with them
on fat cattle. .Ranchmen were there watching
them. and the result made them look blue.
old.an then killed and dressed him. He dressed
at 1884 pounds [applause]. and he dressed TIA
per cent OF his gross weight tapplause] and that
cago. 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
the largest percentage Of edible food in the car
css tho first prize for largest per cent of dressed
meat to the live steer the first prize for the best
prizes with four steers in competition with 600.
[Applause.] I fed no corn. I 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.
I sowed my turnips with drill, cultivated
them twice. tlinned them out and when ripe
cut the tops of with noe. Il cost $12 80 per
ncre the cost being less than one and half cents
to the bushel: Now the rstions for 100 steers
and one man can take caro- Of q hundred steers
The rations consist first Of 1000 pounds
of hay ut .$3 per ton, and will
say that there Is enough hay burned in Minne-
sofa annually. II sold at IS per acre. to pay for
There will be also 1900 pounds Of roots or
| seventy bushels. at two cents a bushe1-and
mine didn't cose ono and o half, cents, and
raised on poor soil. Next CONS 400 pounds
! OF ground grain at one cont per pound.
md 200 pounds Of oil cake at 800 per ton. The
total rations then for 100 steers for one day are
| $500 pounds Of feed, or ffty-eight pounds for
each animal. which costs 9 90. or 1901 for
ave rage
cents pound, Or ss, 451 Tor the herd, making the
making tho total Investment In feed and steers
$4,251. Now. 100 steers should gain $50 pounds
sacn during the ninety days, making their aver
age weight 400 pounds, mr. Q tota! Of 100000
pounds, which at l9o pound, would be Sc. 800.
Now the manure from these animals Is worth
f207, total on the credit side Of SO, 567, or
profit OF 81 31B. or a23. 16 to each animal for
three months. [Applausel
The following Is the above information in
d Jabulated form:
Daily rations for 100 steers
| 1000 lbs. hay @ SO per ton. ...... 81 so
1900 lbs. roots, 70 Blu. g % per bu... 1 DO
| 400 lbs. ground grain @ 10 per b.. 4 90
200 lbs oil cake @ 500 per ton..... Q 90
$500 lbs. for one days casts. ......... So 90
Rations for ninety days cost.::.,.. 1901 90
100 steers, 1, $50 lbs. EACH @ Sc, cost 49, $50 90
100 sseors, 400 ibs each, sell for. s. $50 90
Add one-thtrd Atlue for manue. ....... 267 90
Total amount of sales. ............ $s.5e7 90
That this can be done and has been done cam an
demonstrate 70 any man with ordinary tnteli-
gence: These figures all allow q margin on the