St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-26

amount is not vastly greater. l figure
that | make 100 per cent on my sheep
investment.
Hog Culture.
If there is any place where hogs do
better than in Minnesota, that land has
not yet been announced. Trichin9 and
hog cholera are unknown, every liver is
healthful, the meat solid, succuient and
richly favored. Germany, and every
government of Europe, might well re-
ce1ve them without special inspection.
We send to the ShambleS about 30, 900
annually, at an average of IS per head,
equal to $4,000 900 per year. We have
all the imported breeds, and Poland
Chinas. Berkshires and Chester Whites
all flourish as taste may direct; and he
is poor farmer, indeed, VINO does not
look after the royal blood of his swine.
All we need is to widen the industry,
and statistics show that 1t is growing
rapidly. Hog feed, such as corn, barley
and barley and oats ground together is
plentiful, with clover for pasture.
Cattle Culture and the Dairy.
Thirty-one years ago l was in St.
Peter, the then proposed capital of the
cow to furnish milk for the hotel. To-
day there are 1000 cattle of all kinds
in this state. 1t was once supposed
that the severity of our winters and the
length OF the feeding season would
prove fatal to US as a cattle-grOwing
state. These errors have most happily
proven false. The climate. the grasses,
the perfect healthfulness, the stock.
have given our cattle a noble Superi.
ority. Such has been the success that
careful farmers have invested their
money in the best blOoded cattle of the
world. Our herds of ShOrthOrns. Poll
Angus, HOlsteins, DevonS, Jerseys and
| Herefords cannot be excelled on this
continent, if in England. This
business is not done for show, but for
profit. AS to dairy products we are
abreast of the highest success yet at
tanned. From 1885. when this state
captured the first prize for butter at the
New Orleans exposition, we have pro-
crossed marveIously. There are now IN
active operation PCS creameries and
nlnety-nine cheese factories in Mime
sofa. The private diaries are proving
also more productive, and still produce
the great bulk of our butter. The dairy
department gave me 994.79i as the num-
Der of cows to-day i'll the state. The
same authority gives as the value of
our butter in 1890, S6,71S674; and the
, value of cheese produce the same year,
1895, O65.SO; making the total
of our dairy products equal 81
! 7l3, 739. The dairy department
makes the total present value of our
butter, cheese and cows S25. 621, 031.S0. a
sum very nearly equal to our annual in
come from wheat. There is also an
nually marketed over a million and a
half gallons of milk. Besides this,
there are the neat cattle sold for the
shambles, or as feeders" to Iowa and
Nebraska. There are 100000 farms in
the state. About one-half of these may
be now estimated as cattle-producing
farms, and turn off about six head to
this number of farms, or 300,00 head
each year, at an average of SIS per head.
equal to about S3,900,0O0 year. Surely
our cattle industry is on substantial
front as great and permanent element
of state wealth. The indications are
that the free ranges of the West are de-
creaSing in the number of cattle under
pressure of the settlement and Occupa-
ton of the land. With this powerful
competition abated, our cattle industry
will spring into renewed life.
Horse Breeding.
But few persons are aware of therapid
progress and high position this state has
really attained in the breeding and rails
ing of good horses. Here we are achiev-
ing fresh triumphS in new field. 1t is
but few years since the character of
our horses was very ordinary. This is
oil ohappad Tho ipfroduotioD Of p0nIo
sires has gone ON till the best equine
blood of Europe is in the possession of
our breeders. The men who have in
vested their tens of thousands in these
importations know just what they are
doing. Kentucky no longer has mon
opoly of the runner" or "trotter." We
have turfmen who have already
achieved wide regulations as good
breeders. For ''roadsters" we have
Cleveland Bays, French Coachers and