Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-27
Finale Of The Great Stockgrowers' Convention
in Denver.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION is ORGANIZED.
Councilman Cailistcr OF Salt Lake on the
Executive Committeeman Meeting In
Denver-interesting Papers Read.

eufe OIL Inc menu. The bill of fare con-
tanned buffalo. elk. antelope, quail,
opossum and other game a well as
beef, pork and mutton In large quanti-
Ties. The arrangements for the feast
mad been made with great care. and
hundreds of walters were kept busy
for hours attending to the wants OF the
guests.
Several papers on the program for
the session of the convention were
omitted to give time for the completion
OF the organization of the National
Livestock association. The following
executive committee was selected with
Inc provision that governors of states
not represented be empowered to APP
point members:
Arizona-Col Alfred S. DOMAIN.
Colorado--John w. Springer.
ldaho-A. Il. Clark.
lllinois-Charles w. Baker.
Indiana--J. h. Conner.
lowa-John A. Craig.
kansas-G. w. Melville.
Michigan-H. II. Kinds.
Minnesota - Theodore L. Schuer-
meyer.
Missouri-c. A. Thompson.
Montana--J. NJ. Holt.
Nebraska-Peter Jansen.
New Mexico-W. c. Mcdonald.
lahomu-E S. Donnelly.
Oregon-R. c. Judson.
South Dakota-Frank A. Stewart.
TeNas-A. b. Robertson.
Utah f. II. Callister
Wyoming-D. n. SticlIney.
Hon, Thomas Ward of Derver made
short address asking the convention
to return to Denver next year. Omaha
also made a bid for the convention
but withdrew before the vote was
taken. and Denver was chosen unani-
mously.
ing the executive committee to en-
deavor to devise ways and means to
erect stockgrowers' building at the
Omaha Exposition.
The committee on resolutions made
its report, which was adopted 1t
the stockgrowers and opposed the
anti-vivisection bill.
A resolution faVoring the cession of
the arid lands TO the states was de-
feated
A paper on Dairy interests by
Henry Wallace. editor of Wallace's
Farmer. Des Moines. Iowa, was pre-
scented.
The convention then adjourned sine
die.
Following is letter sent to the con-
vention by United States Secretary
| of Agriculture Wilson:
PAPER OF HON. JAMES WILSON.
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
| men: / regret that II Is not possible
| for me to meet with the stockgrowers
| of the nation on this occasion. but /
have promised to visit the southern
| people so as to ascertain in what way
| / may make the department of aBri-
! culture useful to them.
Your program committee has asked
me to send you a letter, covering the
point.
what is our government doing for
| the stock interests?' Probably the best
work the government is doing for the
| stock interest is in connection with the
experiment stations and agricultural
| colleges where stock breeding and
! feeding are taught to the young farm,
ers. and where experimentation are
carried on regarding all the features
of stock raising; where the anatomy
and physiology of the animals are
taught; composition of the forage on
which they live; and the sciences
| which apply to the most economic
feeding, for the best development of
the animal and in the interest of the
pocket book of the owner This is
| probably the very best work that is
being done. ! cannot imagine sue
cessful stock growing without connec-
| ton with the dairy, even in the noun
tain states. This should be given more
attention and l am sure the people of
| the mountain states Will give II more
attention. The colleges have been do
| ing work in teaching the sciences that
underlie carrying. They have been
| doing work along this line long enough
| to teach good dairying to such an eN-
tent as to Justify this department in
finding markets abroad for American
butter. which is equnr to any made In
| the world. This all comes from the
endowment by the United States OF
| colleges and experiment stations.
| might remark, incidentally, that the
| work done in one state is only sent
| out to the people OF that state in the
shape of bulletins Much of this work
| has national bearing and is of ma
| tional interest l have the department
| here at work preparing farmers bulle-
| tins from the reports of the several sta
| tons so as to make the discoveries of
the different stations common property.
This is another thing that is being
| done.
Of work in some of the experiment sta
| uoEs, under some of our brightest di-
| rectors IN connection with this depart
| ment. for the purpose of getting facts
| In consecutive order regarding the
| feeding of animals from their earliest
|
| the necessity for farmers bulletins
along this line. The young things Just
born are SO per cent water They must
grow bone and muscle and fat. and get
| all those things from their ratlons.
| When they mature the case Is quite
| different. Their bones have grown,
their muscles are extended. and they
| require only fat when Il bunch Of ma
| ture animals are put up to fatten,
| fattening IL NIL that takes place. The
| bone and muscle have been grown, and
consequently the nutrition that makes
| bone and muscle cannot be extracted
from the ration by the animal after he
| has maturcd. This is proved conclu-
| slyely by the fact that young animals
| gain more rapidly than older animals
| from the same amount OF feed II has
been proved by the experiment sta
| lions that the very young animal gains
| one pound live weight from one to two
| pounds of dry matter in It's rations.
/ An animal can be grown up to six
teen to eighteen months OF age and
| gain on an average OF one pound In
| live weight from five pounds OF dry
| matter in Its food, where the ration
| has been properly adjusted to the age
| OF the animals. The feeders OF mature
| animals, II has been found by inves-