The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-03-26
orr ROOD PRODUCTS.


ton at Bozeman on the 22d inst, under
, the auspices Of the agricultural college
letter was read from Mr. p. ID. Ar.
mour, the well known Chicago packer
, in which he said that better hogs could
be more successfully raised on barley in
Montana than they could in the east on
corn"
IL this be true Montana has been act
ing a very foolish and unthrifty part in
sending 50 many millions to that same
east for corn-fed hogs and their prod
ucts. when we might have had better
pork fed at home on Montana bar
Icy. and thus saved the millions, so fool
ishly sent away, to bolster up and re-
leve the sufferings Of thousands among
us in these hard times. II barley is
better for hogs, Why not fer turkeys,
ducks, chickens and eggs? And why
not raise our own poultry and our own
eggs and save the millions we send
away for them?
But we always knew our bunch grass
is better than any grown in the east,
and yet we have not permitted our Jer-
seys and Ayrshires and short-horns 60
furnish our butter, cheese and con-
densed milk. We know from the ex-
perienoe of years that no bluegrass
butter is any better than our bunch
grass butter. Then why buy it?
But with all the bias our very strong
feeling gives us to decide for Montana,
we think that Mr.. Armour's declaration
that better pork can be raised on barley
in Montana than on corn in the east is
not correct. The experience Of the cen
turtles is against this assertion. For
more than a century the middle and
southern and central states have sup
piled the markets OF the world with ils
best hog products, all corn-fed. New
England is not a good corn country, and
the hogs we're fed on potatoes, pump.
kins, apples and other farm products,
| till the last three or four weeks, when
they we're fed on corn 10 give the pork
its best possible properties. 1t would
be difficult TO make an eastern farmer
believe that barley will make as coed
pork AS corn, whatever may be the opin-
ion Of Mr.. Armour.
Still we can raise as good pork as they
do in New England II our farmers will
send to Maine and get the flint corn
they use for farm crops, it will produce
fair crops in all favorable localities in
our state. II this corn is fed TO our hogs
the last three or four weeks, as in
Maine, the pork will be as good as the
best Mr. Armour packs at Chicago.
This is : good work for our expert
mental station. This station can and
must demonstrate that we can raise as
good corn as they do ia Maine. When
this is done We can lake our pork as
good as tho best, and save az home the
millions We send east for hog products.
And besides this corn contains more OIL
than our barley, oats, wheat, or peas,
and will raise the temperature OF the
| blood in our poultry and make them
harder and lay better, especially in cold
weather And verify this corn will make
the chickens, ducklngs, and young
/ turkeys warmer blooded and better able
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days of our springs and even the few
cold days in our summers. That oily
food keeps up the temperature, is well
shown by its effects on the Eskimo. So
warm does It keep these Sons Of the
arctic, they live through their desolate
winters with scarcely any external fires,
10 warm their blood.
We eat quantities Of rolled oats and
corn meal. Why send our money east
I for these meals when we can raise them
cheaper at home, We pay about ten
/ cents pound for rolled oats FOR our
tables. Our oats are better than east
ern oats and will give Us fully forty
/ pounds OF rolled oats above good toll.
/ which would make bushel Of oat meal
worth q. Some Of our mills might put
in a set Of rollers and sell us our rolled
oats at half we now pay and make big
money by the operation. Many Of our
housekeepera have learned that We raise
az good wheat and make ss good flour
as they DO in Dakota and Minnesota.
/ Lot Us be wiser. We have paid many
millions for our thriftlass carelessness.