The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-11-29
Does It Pay to Raise Cattle.

There has been no time for years
when first class beef cattle were
worth more in Chicago than they
have been for the past season. As
high as s. per hundred has been
paid. They We're grade cattle. 1t
pays to raise and sell such stock.
There has been no time when CON-
mon cattle have been SO cheap. They
have been sold Tor sl.75 per hundred
and are now worth in Chicago from
81. 10 to g. 30 per hundred. They are
common scrub stock. such as are
raised by the average Howard Coun-
ty farmer. Such cattle cannot nor
be raised at profit. They go into
market competing with the
scrub stock OF Texas. the Indian Ter
ritory and the western ranges. 1t is
not likely that the prices for such
beef will improve, and there can be
no profit III raisingit.
Well. then what can a Howard
County farmer DO: If he has a herd
Of ID or 20 cows he Will have to spend
few hundred dollars, buy thor
oughbred bull and raise grade cattle.
That will improve his stock and
nothing else will.
But what kind of bull shall he
buy:
II he has good buildings and an
outfit for caring for the stock. a
Ehort-horn, a Hereford or a Red
polled will do what he wants to do
but unless they can have the care re-
quired the crop will be the meanes,
sort Of scrubs. There are numbers Of
first class herds Of such stock in thi.
vicinity, and good bull can be
bought at reasonable figures. With
conveniences for taking care of the
crop Of calves a man can make mon.
ey raising such cattle.
But the average farmer does not
have such conveniences. What shall
he do?
A recent sale of stock In Cresco, to
to our mind answers the question.
A practical feeder bought in this
market 8 car loads. made up mostly
of yearlings and two-year-olds-ayer
age Howard County stock-having
ordinary care, and for most of which
he paid from $3.50 to 81 per hundred.
Among the lot were nineteen head
Of grade Polled Angus calves from
common COWS, bought of DIR. J. J.
Clemner. These calves had had
such care as farmers stock COM
monty gets.
They were from eight to twenty
two months old, and brought 1925
per hundred. DR.. Clemmer receiving
the snug sum of 5000. % for the nine
teen head. Itpays to raise such cat
tie.
This breed OF cattle, natives of a
cold and sterile country. are hardy
and adapted to our severe winters.
They are "rustlers" by inheritance,
thriving where others starve. They
mature early and furnish all the
points of excellence that go to make
the best quality Of finished beef.
In London the beef of the Aber-
deem Angus herds command the
highest price in the butchers stock.
500 a.hundred was the top price
paid this season at the Chicago Tn.
ion Stock Yards, and that price was
given for a lot OF two-year-old Aber.
deen-Angns steers.
With i good bull of this stock a,
the head. Il herd Of fifteen or 20 com.
mon COWS in this county will be
worth IS per cent more than scrub
stock. The crop Of calves will be
black, without horns, round aid
blocky, gentle, hardy rustlers, ma
ture early, and with the same feed
and care required by scrub stock will
give most satisfactory results. Those
who are trying to raise cattle for
profit can't afford to be without one.
We have no peeuniary interest in
this or any other stock but We do
want to see the average Howard
County farmer get on the road to
faising cattle with profit ~