The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-10-20
IMPROVED LIVE STOCK.
Why ft Ts as Necessary as Improved Ar.
riculturai Machinery,

Why ft Ts as Necessary as Improved Az,
riculturai Machinery.
Closely following the advance Of the
mechanic arts. we find the agricultural
Industries with improved machinery
and improved methods Of tillage, en-.
abling the farmer to double his acreage
and more than double the value of his
production.
The intelligent farmer readily falls
In line with these advanced ideas. Not
waiting to be told 1t will be payiup
Investment, he at once supplies him.
self with the latest labor-savinp ma,
chinery, and adopts the improved
methods Of tillage.
Observation and experience has
taught him 1t will no longer pay to
resort to the old hand cradle to harvest
his wheat-that 1t will be paying in
vestment to put from 800 to $3.50 in a
modern self-binding harvester.
While he Is ever ready to adopt these
improved methods in grain farming,
he is slow to adopt improved methods
OF stock-raising, from which a large
part of the profits from general farming
would be derived.
With improved cattle the unmarked
able and by-product of the farm could
be marketed with profit. While he
sees the wisdom of investing hun.
dred dollars or more in self-binding
harvester, he does not see the wisdom
OF investing like amount in a
thoroughbred bull by which he would
double the value Of his livestock pro-
duction. He does not stop to consider
that the thoroughbred bull is to the
scrub what the improved self-binding
harvester is to the old hand-cradle
which he has abandoned. Why does
he adopt the improved methods Of
grain-farming and reject the improved
methods of stock-raising?
Is it not from the fact that he has
had experience with the former and
proved its value, while with the other
he has had no experience, but takes it
for granted that 1t will not pay, and
never tries itp This would seem to be
the charitable solution of the problem
for had he ever had the service of a
thoroughbred bull, he would be no
more ready to return to the scrub than
to the old hand-cradle long since aban-
doned.
Now, my good farmer, you that have
proven the value of modern agricultur-
al machinery, but have not proven
the value of a thoroughbred bull, when
compared with the native scrub, ex-
anime tho facts as they are placed be-
fore you, and note the difference in
value OF imported cattle when COM
pared with the native scrub, to which
you SO dearly cling.
Last year the Bureau of Animal In
dustry at Washington among other
things, obtained from authentic
sources the ruling value of the various
classes of live stock, and placed in
tabulated form the average price per
head OF these various classes.
These statistics show tho AVERAGE |
price per head of three-year-old
thoroughbred cattle to be $19O.53-the
average price of high grades, $3.50
the average price of three-fourths
bloods, $54. 62-the average price of
half bloods, $36.93. while the average
price of native cattle was but 1928. SO.
Here is a difference of $S3. 40 in favor
OF 10 steers from scrub cows by a
thoroughbred bull, and 10 steers from
the same COWS by scrub bull.
In other words, the farmer with 10
scrub COWS can afford to pay $50 for
the service of a thoroughbred bull, or
counting money with ten per cent he
can afford to pay $500 for thorough.
bred bull and then be as we'll off as he
is breeding scrubs. Now, is there
farmer with ten or fifteen common COWS
shat can truthfully say that it will pay
to invest 800 or more in self-binding
but will not pay to invest
like amount in thoroughbred short
horn bull, when with the present prices
he can get q good one for that money?
10 go little further with these figures,
we're his ten COWS high grades (Which
hey could be with two or three crosses
with thoroughbred bulls, ten steers by
} thoroughbred bull would be worth
800 more than the ten scrubs. He
'0uAo OAAoAOiOIC buOrO " pay $C,UuO IOr |
! thoroughbred bull to use on his ten
nigh grade COWS and then make as
much money as with his scrub COWS
Ind scrub bull.
The farmer does not now have to
,ay So, 900 for a thoroughbred bull
le can get good one for from $1OO to
100. We say, then, if you do not wish I
o stand in your own light, get thor
'ughbred bull at once, and keep the !
i've stock branch of your farming
breast with your grain farming. To
make money on small farm the two
must go hand in hand. To do less YOU !
nay get fair living for yourself and .
amily, but you can not make farming ,
success or ennoble the calling which
ou have chosen.--Indiana Farmer.
A QUESTIONABLE DISH. s