The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-04-27
THE STOCK-RANCH.
Does Stock Breeding Pay

In answer to this question by q sub
scriber, the editor of the Southern Lire
Stock journal replies:
Yes, stock raising pays. But how
much pays depends upon very many
conditions. Good stock, well fed and
well cared for, intelligently bred, skill
fully managed, pays well-any kind of
stock, horse, COW, hog, sheep, goat.
They must be managed correctly to pay
big profits. They must be fed well, yet
economically. They must not only be
fed we'll, but in order to make the quick
est growth and the most economic, and
the most perfectly developed animals
they must be fed such food and in such
relative proportions as are adapted to
the special purpose IN view.
Do we know of any one making money
raising stock? We do. We know of
very few who are engaged in stock
breeding as a speciality, who are not
making money. Not all making large
profits and growing rich rapidly, but
far more financially successful as class
than ninety nine out of a 100 farmers
who raise hoed crops and breed no stock.
OF course some men fail-some because
they are not fitted for the business
either by natural taste for the business,
or lack of practical knowledge of the
business, or both, Some fail who would
fail at almost any other agricultural
pursuit. There is as much depending
upon the man as upon the stock, the
soil, the feed.
What is the wealthiest agricultural re-
gion of Kentucky? Is it not the blue
grass region? The lands are worth 500
to $50 per acre, and why? We answer
grass and stock.
In Tennessee the middle portion is
the wealthiest agricultural section, why?
Grass and stock.
Is it not so in all the States Except
where the ranching business is carried
| ON that the highest priced lands are
grass lands, and the richest farmers are
stockmen?
What branch of stock raising to adj
wise as the best, depends upon so many
circumstances it would be difficult to
| answer satisfactorily; the character Of
lands and grasses that can be grown,
distance from market, the tastes of the
man himself, etc, etc. There will al
ways as long as you live or | live and
our children live be good profit in
dairying and with Jersey cattle. There
| viii always be good demand for the
| best quality of milk and butter and
| cheese; and there will never be a tim %
| when a first class dairy COW will not sell
| at good price.
As long as people eat beef, end grass
| grows, the Devon will pay profit to the
| breeder who manages skillfully his
| business. The Holstein being the
greatest of all milk producing breeds.
| and fair butter animals, and fair beef
animals they are bound to pay as long
people drink milk, eat butter and buy
beef.
Raising horses or mules will pay. A
really good horse or mule never fails to
command profitable price if raised
with Intelligent skill and economy, by
one who understands his business. Peo-
pie have to have pillow stock, wagon
| stock, carriage stock, etc. Somebody
has to raise them, and the best class of
stock will always sell we'll. The idea is
to raise the best always that your means
and skill and circumstances viii admit
of. There will be ninety and nine
sorry animals where there will be one
best. The sorry ones don't pay-at
least not much.