The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-09-21
The Sheep Question and Farmers Who
Have No Sheep.


Have No Sheep.
According to the latest statistics there
are some 45,00O,00O sheep in the United
States. The amount Of wool annually
consumed in this country will reach at
least 60O,OO0,0OO pounds. 1t is estimated
that it would require over 100.0O0,0O0
sheep to supply the home demand for
wool; and then the American Economist
asks the important ques ton: How does
this question affect the farmers who have
no sheep!" 1t answers the question il.
self
Every pound Of wool imported is
equivalent to an import Of the grass hay.
corn, oats and other feed that make
wool. Thus, when wool is imported,
these tarm products are in effect import.
ed, TO come in competition with the SINH
lar products of American farmers and
thus reduce the price and impair the
ability to patronize mechanics. mer-
chants, growers. schools colleges or
churches.
We need an addition to our flocks Of
G5.O0O,OOo sheep. With an adequate pro-
tectlve tariff for wool we will soon have
this increase, which would make an addi-
tional demand for at least 4OO0O.G 900
bushels of corn. or an equivalent in corn
and oats for stock sheep, aud for lO 600
600 additional mutton sheep probably
about 3O.OOO,O0O bushels more feed would
be required. It would make an increa sed
demand for pasturage, and Thus utilize
lands now unemployed. 1t would also in
crease the demand for hay. oats, etc.
John Reiiners, an intelligent German
OF Grand Island, Neb.. who has a ranch
Or 'OOo acres, has stated that large num-
bers OF sheep were pastUred in Wyomine
and then driven into Nebraska to be win.
tered on hay, fodder and corn raised
there, and that the sheep owners of Wv
omlnS shipped into that state large ouan-
titles OF corn from other states for win
ter feed for sheep, especially for those ia
be sold for mutton.
Ihus the farmers who own no sheen
are deeply interested in sheen husha ndrv
Free wool will substantially destrov
sheep husbandry and the market it makes
Tor farm products: And yet John REIN.
ers is a free-wool Democrat,
lhe f0tal annual exports of corn from
the whole United States, from 1870 to
1889 inclusive. were only 5G. 1856 bush,
els, or 81 per cent. CT all produced Ohio
produced about one-twenticth of the
corn crop, SO that its proportion of the
annual export was 1.S3S, ,443 bushels
while the needed increase of sheep will
make increased demand for nearly five
times the export market, aud then tha
foreign market will still be open ia Ohio
besides.
THE food supply has increased more
rapidly than our population. In period
OF thirty y-nlne years, ending 1885. the
population III the United States has in
creased Id per cent. corn has increased
.ol per cent, wheat $50 per cent. OATS
Al per cent. swine G6 per cent. and
cotton seed oil is just recently made an
article of food like lard The NECESSITY
for increasing our home market for corn
and oats is pressing, The importation
OF wool diminishes the home market; an
increase of our hocks enlarges it. Our
poacy IS, import no wool, produce all
needed and enlarge the farmers market. /"
Som" strong FONTS IL short Paragraphs.
The increase in the public debt between
january 1. 1893, and August /. 1se4 was
SSO,OOo.OOO. So much for the fear Of
free trade and its relief Of the burden Of
taxation from the plain people
The great pacing race between the
famous teams Perfidy and Dishonor. and
Cleveland and Reform, will end in an
easy victory for the formcr The other
team will be lucky if it avoids being dis.
tanced.
Immediate advances in the retail price of
sugar will do more to remind the pain
people Of Democratic perfidy and dishonnr
than half dozen Of Mr.. Cleveand's most
suphurous letters. There is little likeli.
hood that the infamy of Mr.. CLEVELAND !
asSosAateS VIII soon De forgotten.
Census returns recently compiled show
that nearly half of all the families in this
country own their homes, and that mora
than 20 per cent of these homes arc I'm.
incumbered. If the free trade dreamer,
know Of an anti-tariff nation capable ii
making q more striking showing than
that. they cannot name it too soon.
When the Republican party. in tha
hour Of the nations need. devised the n.
Iernai revenue system. the mossback
denouncing it as 1.-The Internal ravanna
tax Today, when the system is neither
desirable nor necessary, those same real.
Gus patriots are rejoicing in extending !,
by. converting it into cumbersome M.
chine TO collect taxes ON incomes The
Democracy, which is already thirty-fiye
resolutely backward. ''i