The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1898-09-10
Conpstition ii Cattle.

49, ROGAUA0Ms IN aV2Etlo
The Scottish Farmer, an excellen,
exchange from the other side 81 the
water, discusses the subject Of COM
petition from American cattle. and ii
{ IS not able to see how, with increasing
population and decreasing numbers
! or stock, we should be flooding foreign
markets with our j i've stock, both beef
and mutton, and attributes It mainly
i 20 Improvement in breeding by which
we transform Gamers into better beef
/ and increase the pounds Of beet IN
proportion to the number Of cattle.
Walllaee's Farmer, in commenting up
on on this says: s There has been no inn
p pr ent in ten years past In the
quality qulGal1ty Of the cattle in the corn and
grass states: II anything there has
been pee deterioration. There has been
great Improvement in the cattle IN the
sEelmi-arid belt: that is, In the eastern
portions Of the plains. and also In
some son OF the mountain states, particu-
larly Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming and
Montana. There is, however, limit
TO this improvement in the environ
m 1ent, to which also there is a we'll
defined limit. Cattle can be bred up
readily to the measure OF their en-
@vironment. natural or artificial. but
beyond that the Improvement cannot
possibly go. The important fact, so
Tar as cattle are concerned, which our
foreign contemporary overlooks is
this: That during the last two years,
owing to the very low price of corn
and unusually large number of acres,
cattle Of all ages have been placed, on
iced, thus depicting the range stock
TO an extent which is really alarming
to the ranchmen themselves. These
cattle having been, once placed on feed
must be marketed when they are fit to
go, and often before, and for this rea-
son there is fully the usual number Of
rat cattle offered in the market and
the usual per cent Of them going
abroad. This will regulate itself in
time. It is difficult to see whence the
places of these cattle are to be filed
after they have gone to market. That
tnls Is the true solution of the prob
lem is clear from the fact that stock
cattle, or stores as the folks across
the water call them, ARE relatively very
much higher than fat cattle, so much
SO, that instances are not at all infre-
quent Of cattle having been shipped to
market as fat, being sent back after
journey of seven or eight hundred
miles and sold ~ &h1 ;rt,
hood, and sometimes to the man who
fed them. as stock cattle.
IT, The Hog of the Future.
Mr.. John L. Van Doren writes as
follows: The hog of the future will
be bred and born with his Sunday
clothes on, his head will be neat, short
and tapering nicely, eye clear and
bright and. Of good size and always
open, only when sleeping. The ear
will be found thin, resembling tissue
paper, the neck short and strong and
will set on with good chest, the back
will be broad, level, ribs well sprung
and running out straight to tail. with
no crease or dropping behind the shout
der; loin broad and strong, side deep
and full and running we'll down to fore
leg, and measures as much or more
in the flank as heart girth, running
smooth and even from end to end with
an Ieven under line and standing on
heavy, strong, straight legs. A hog
broken down in the feet is not the hog
of the future. The hog Of the future
will have coat Of hair as fine as silk,
he will be as mellow to the touch as
a kid glove and shall have the style
and action Of drum-major. As to
his care, he shall never know what
it is to want for his food, which shall
consist of the best the land affords.
His drink will be sweet, clean, pure.
and in cold weather, stimulating. His
bed will be dressed every few days and
cleansed. of all filth. He will bs
groomed and kept as race horse, free
from vermin. In summer he will be
protected from the heat and in win
ter will receive attention from the
cold. With the care which the hog
Of the future win have, he will not
be#so susceptible to disease as the hog
ofthe present day. s. ~
Death from Anthrax.-Anthrax re-
Gently broke out among some COWS on
a, small holding at Cramington, a few
miles north Of Newcastle, and has, I'M
fortunately, involved the loss of a hui
man life. It appears that few days
ago cow died and a butcher was call
ed in to dress the carcass, which was
sent. to Newcastle. At that place it
was seized as unfit for human food.
The butcher shortly afterwards visited
Newcastle Royal Infrmary with a bad
hand. He refused to stay at the insti-
tuition, as suggested by the medical
staff, but on Saturday last he returned
In worse condition and consented to
become an indoor patient. He died,
however, within a few hours after
wards, and the cause Of death was Ger
titled to have been anthrax. A1togeth-
er, three cows have died at the, farm
referred to.-Mark Lane Express (Eng)
Useless Males. Estimate the cost OF
keeping one male for a year and it will
be found that 1T is not less than fifty
cents. Send him to market when a
wear o1d andssf1ata will Tf1f hrin - t,uar.