St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-21
IMPROVED LIVE STOCK.
The Difference Between Scrubs
and Pure BloOds for the General


The Difference Between Scrubs
and Pure Bloods for the General
Farmer.
Reference has repeatedly been made
to the Importance of the Improvement
of stock by the infusion of pure blood.
A writer in the Farmers Advocate has
these excellent suggestions on the sub
ject:
81 do not wish to be understood that
the general farmer must be breeder of
thoroughbred stock, but in my opinion
he must improve the stock he already
has, for it is an undisputed fact that the
scrub will always bring its breeder and
feeder out in debt. With our low prices
of produce, we must make the land
produce all that is possible and SO dis
pose of the produce that it will bring
the most money, and L know of no
better way to accomplish this than to
combine the raising of improved stock
us look back. to our mother country, old
England, with her high rents and
taxes, and we find that they were
obliged to improve their stock, and
with this they have brought their soil
up to the highest state of cultivation. In
Holland, too, we find them improving
their stock in certain lines for untold
years. We are told that the people
of Holland are slow to adopt new
methods, but yet we find them with i'm
proved stock as necessity to profitable
agriculture. On the little island of Jer-
sey with her immense population and
small area of land from whence to draw
Eer support, they were obliged to inn
fI,n,, Dor 90 fIo& oh Il
sist on the least possible food, and yet
hence we have the little Jersey an
animal of very small stature, but yet
a great butter producer. Our best farm
erS find it profitable to procure full
complement of the latest improved i'm
plementS and to invest in suitable
buildings to shelter them when not in
use, and why will it not pay to apply
the same rule to our stock. If scrub
cow that will make six pounds of
butter per week. pays for her keep,
and, by the use of thoroughbred
sire from some of the dairy breeds, her
offspring can be made to produce eight
or ten pounds of butter per week, the
cross has given us large margin of
The keeper of a dairy herd should thor
oughly
TEST HIS COWS
and know whether they are paying him
or not, and Immediately beef the I'M
profitable ones. Jan. 81 good mixed
butchers stock. fat cows, heiferS and
light steers were quoted at $500
3.75 per cwt., that being the best class
marketed from the common stock of
our country, and OH the same day
we found extra good steers,
weighing 1900 to 1,450 pounds
quoted at S4.50@5 per cwt.
Here we have difference of about 81
per hundred in favor of the improved
the general average weight of the first
class is only 500 or 900 pounds. At the
heaviest weight and best price they
would bring s33.75 apiece, while the
grade, at 1,300 pounds and SIS per hun
bred, would bring S65. or almost double
the price of the Scrub-a good return
for the use of thoroughbred sire.
While the price of cattle per pound
may and will fiuctuate, yet the
difference per pound between good
and poor cattle will remain
unchanged; the same may be said of
all other kinds of stock. Generous
feeding and care will be found very
advantageous in dealing with all ami
mails. l find it much more profitable to
keep only as much stock as can be fed
and cared for we'll, having this motto
always in view, AN honest profit for all
food consumed To accomplish this,
only finely bred males should be used.
The breeds of stock kept should be
those most suitable for the locality and
the purpose required. These are con-
siderations which have not received the
attention they deserve from our farm
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