St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-16

whose members produce on an average
300 pounds each. The result, which can
be easily calculated. would on such an
average be more than doubled with
practically the same feed and care. Tho
question of feeding is all-impOrtant, for
nesh Is not needed In q dairy cow, and
her rations should be arranged accord
ingiy. Ihere are also the vital ques-
lions or cooperative creameries, cheese
factories ana the value OF instruction.
Another means of securing product
that is always in demand is the raising
OF stock, especially hogs. The latter
provides means of almost immediate
relief. 1t will take three years to ma
terially increase the dairy output,
for cows are valuable and can
not be obtained In appreci-
able numbers without raising them.
Two crops of hogs can be raised every
Year without effort. There is hardly a
farmer who cannot secure at least one
brood SOW and boar with which to stock
his farm. From this small beginning
he may easily have in eighteen months
forty merchantaOle hogs and a dozen
stock hogs. which will produce annually
surplus for the market of at least
siysy-five marke table hogs.
30 far-slghted man as President
Hill, or the Great Northern railroad.
saw years ago bow valuable the hog
ought to be to farmers of Northern
Minnesota, and distributed among them
Dl0oded boars to assist in stocking their
farms. In those days of "bonanZa
wheat the donees in many Instances
sold their presents tor pork. an act
only paralleled by the Indians who
In early days dug up the seed
potatoes planted by kindly govern
ment for their relief. The manager Of
the union Stockyards at South St Paul,
recognizing the eXlgency of the situa-
ton, has made arrangements to supply
all who are likely 10 apply with five
bred soWS that will farrOw during the
approaching spring, thus facilitating
the work of making an immediate and
desirable change.
1t has been asserted that hogs cannot
be profitable produced outside of corn
iatltudes. Private and government ex-
perlmentS prove that the assertion is
false. They show that sweeter. frmer
and better pork product and a greater
meat yield IS secured from wheat and
oarlsy-fed hogs than from the corn-fed,
and that cholera and other fatal hog
diseases do not attract the former. To
use figures. experiments at South ST.
raul snow that the meat yield OF corn.
fed hogs is 1867 per cent, while wheat
and barley-fed hogs produce S0.43 per
cent.
For the past two years the market
price of live hogs lat South st. Paul. has
averaged 81 cents per pound. At
cents per pound, buShel OF good wheat
realizes Sl.0l when converted into hog
product. Barley is as good as wheat as
f-ed, and the yield per acre is much
greater. Barley and wheat mixed is
equally profitable. In feeding small
grain to hogs, the farmer is able to
thoroughly clean his marketable grain,
thus securing the full market
value of the superior article, while by
using the screenings as feed he event
uaiiy realizes 65 cents per buShel, and
higher price for the damaged grain.
From the absolute waste OF farm of only
eignty acres, farmer should raise the
pork necessary for home consumption.
and market not less than dozen hogs
Yet GOV. Nelson is authority for the
statement that the farmers in his sec
ton of the state import the butter
placed on their tables and the bacon
needed for family consumption.
There is no direction in which the
efforts of this association, if combined
and persistent, would be SO fruitful, and
secure 81 great demand upon the graf
ltude OF the state. Nor would they be
unremunerative If the farmers about
you are prosperous, it means prosperity
for you; it means larger subscription
lists; 1t means more business: more in
fuence. Is it not worth while for the
editorial association to lend every effort
to aiding this movement to secure di-
versity in the crops and increased pros
perity?
Let the editor reproduce in his col
umns the successful experience of some
creamery or cheese factory near his
home; If there is none. let him take one
IN the next township or next county or
in the nearest county. Let him tell the
successful experience of the nearest
farmers who have successfully diversi-
fed their crops, or who have raised stock
or hogs and proiited thereby. Example
is contagious. the matter is the most in
terestng to readers. and imitation will
bring success to the energetic farmer
and support to the progressive newspa-
per.