Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
INSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR nm
RURAL READERS.
o.' Information Of Valne to tho Farmer,
o'"cR-"rcedsr Bee Keeper, Housewife.
and kitchen-Maid.
THE FARM.
Will Sheep Raising p.vo

'''esip Raising Pay
captain Forrest, of Keokuk County.
Ao"a' gave answer to the above at a re-
cen. asrlcultura institute, summing up
ms experience as follows: Sheep rails
my mas oeen more profitable than cattle
spring We bou ght S4G5 worth. and in the
latter part of the winter five years 400
we bought $4,000 worth, MAKING n total
OF So6o. In that time we have sold v
$I'ooo worth of wool and mutton, have
apout Sl'ooO on hand, leavinga gain of
apout so,oOO. We calculate that if we
I'VE sl,ooO in the fall that in the wear,
IN Two lnstallments, We will get our
money out, leaving us the next fall with
as man sheep to start i'll again. You
mould always cut out the old and fatter
ones ana sell for mutton, leaving the
young and most desirable ones. l snow
q man who keeps about 100 sheep, who
says ne has experimental by paying SIS
for a steer calf and SIS for ewes. and
Wheh the steer matLred and was ready
for market he had cash enough from
sale OF wool and mutton to buy the steer
ana MS SO worth of sheep LETT as clear
gam. lttook nc more feed or grass for
the sneep than for the steer"
q. W. POLLOCK, an Ohio sheep-raiser,
argues the following propositions:
l. Ihat more wool ought to be grown
ana more mutton produced by the farm
ers OF the United States; and 2, that
OF the farmers ought to engage in
these legitimate and profitable indus
tries. II the first is proved the second
Will naturally follow. In support Of
these propositions i submit three rea-
sons: l. More farmers should keep
sheep because it would be profitable; It
would pay. 2. 1t is a duty we owe each
other. 3. 1t is a duty we owe to our
country; it would be patriotic in the
highest sense for the farmers of this
country to grow II sufficient amount of
WOOL to clothe ourselves. * * IL is
estimated that about $1,000, 900 of our
people are engaged in agricultural pur-
suits, and that there are about 1900, 900
farms lnthe United States, and perhaps
almost as many farmers or land owners.
statistics tell us that not more than
l,02o,oO0, or less than one-fourth OF all
the farmers in the United States. are
engaged in the wool growing industry,
and that of the nearly 5000, 900 farms
only about one-fourth have sheep kept
on them. Ifsheep were kept in small
hocks on every farm the wool growers
would number 5000, 900 instead of 1.0OO,-
OOO voters. Instead of tlocks
being scattered all overthe country they
ought to be consolidated all over the
country. My proposition is that we
have more hocks and not more sheep
more hocks that we may produce more
wool and mutton, and that we may grow
better wool and mutton. The highest
grades of o and the best quality OF
mutton in the world are the products OF
the small fiocks in the United States.
* y AS a nation we boast of oul
ability to feed 60, 900, 900 of people and
have a surplus for the foreign trade
Why not clothe our own people as vel
as feed them? The farmers of thi
country ought by all means to grow
sufficient amount of wool to supply GU
own mills, and thus encourage the HON
-narufacture of our American wool