The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-01-09
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nIanagisg Cows or Profit.

grasses, our healthfnl climate and cheap
lands offer Inducements for the stock
raiser not TO be found in many states of
the union. Grain raising should be
supplemented by stock raising, FIR the
grain raiser will have much course feed
and straw which ii not fed to stock will
be an entire loss to him. and no one can
continue to raise grain year after year
without exllausting the fertility of the
soil. but if enough stock is kept to von-
sumo nearly all the farm produces, it
will gain in fertility, or at least hold its
own. This is supposing, Of course. that
the farmer will haul his manure ont aud
spread it instead OF letting it accnmu-
late around his barn until he has to
haul his barn away from it.
Many of the people who came here did
not come here to farm it, hut came to
rob the soil OF the fertility that had been
stored there in The past ccntn.ies. aud
when they had done 50 they proposed to
go elsewhere to enjoy their plunder, hut
IN many cases the soil entered Il vigorous
protest against being robbed. While all
kinds Of stock do we'll here, cows are the
only kind that eau be depended on 10
make cash returns to lhar Ow;lrr every
day In the year. 70 make the most of
them they should come in in the fall. or
early winter. Butter is always higher
in price in winter than in sumner, and
the farmer has more time then to devote
to his cows. A calf should be fed whole
milk until month old, and then skim
milk for three or four months longer.
By that time it will be spring and the
calf eau go out to the herd
Ii a cow calves in the fall and is well
fed through the winter, she will give
nearly as much milk the following
spring as ii she had been fresh in the
spring. Her owner has had the advan-
tage of the high price OF butter through
the winter and has raised calf that Mt
one year old Will be taken for two.year
old. When calf comes in the fall he
will need warm quarters aud plenty of
Rmilk, but will not consume much hay
the first winter. About the time he be-
gins to eat hay well, grass comes, and
with good pasture his growth will be
continuous. BY the time sae next win
ter comes he will be large enough TO
rustic with anything, aId ii his owner
has Il few straw stacks with a little
common fodder or hay h'' keeping will
not be a great itom Of expense. In the
spring he can again be i.rned in the
herd at the cost of one dollar or less for
the season up to about the first of No.
yember. This makes hi.n two years old.
His owner has paid herd bill on him
twice and has wintereG hlm once, hot
counting the time OF feeding milk as
wintering. His total cost to his owner
has not been over two dollars, making a
liberal allowance for everything, and at
two years old he will sell for $25. The
reason think so is because | recently
rold one less than two years old for $50
and the purchaser made fair profit on
him by selling HIM in the Chicago mar
ket for prime beef.
Ii COW comes in in the spring, the
butter that she makes goes upon the
lowest market of the year, and shc has to
be milked and attended to during the
4 busiest time of the year, and by the time
that butter begins to increase in price III
1.-THE fall sho is about ready to 60 dry
and during the winter when butter is
4 high and her owner is at leisure she il
entirely dry. Her calf was all right un
til its owner began to make cheese
when the calf began to act as if it had
the blues. TO get away from the flies III
ran around until he wound his rope al
up on the picket pin and then had moth
ing but dust to eat for day or two, a
his owner was too busy harvesting tt
attend to him. Finally lie broke hi
rope, and to wash the dust out of hi
mouth took a bite out OF every greer
watermelon his owner had. Thi
!. caused coldness to spring up betwel
them which was bad for the calf. Short
ly after this the pasture dries up, like
, wise the cows to such an extent that tn
calf has nothing but water and sue
> feed as he is abe to get with the rest Q
the cattle. He is still small and unles
he has extra good care through th
> following winter he will be sure to com
!. : out small and thin in tho spring. T
winter him we'll will cost as much as
does to winter calf that came the fa
before him, and to get him two yeal
old he will have to be wintered again, S
that at two years he has cost much NOR
i than the fall calf Mt two years and Wi
a not sell fu. ds iii. have within
!. year seen four such steers sold for Gft
9 dollars, and they were not n great bal
gain. as they had been stunted.
fewyears ago the market was cal
ing for three and four-year-old stee
ia that weighed we'll up to a ton apiec
n but now such cattle are at discoun
n People no longer ask for tallow. Bu
II the two-year.old steer that is we'll grow
!. and in good flesh just fills the bill.
Ia steer at two years ought to weigh /;
II least a thousand pounds. and can easi
h be made to weigh more. This is SUI
a. posing. of course, that he is some Of Il
n beef breed. have nothing at all again
the dairy breeds, but think for this pa
OF the country the beef breeds are pr
ferable, as l believe them harder as we
Ig as larger. and more likely to return the
X owner profit. The profit they retur
ia however, will depand more on the fe
n and care than on the breed. Even Il
ia prize Jersey COW ii fed on straw sta,
p; and a snow bank and sheltered, behind
,e wire fence will not give very rich mi
,o nor ypry much Of it, while n scrub cr