The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-27

1.-THE oldenburg Coach Horse which
he declared to be the highest type of
horse. Mrs Lillian Gregory of Kansas
City read a paper on Women in the
Live Stock Industry in which she
made plea for recognition of her sis
tiers as partners in the business and
urged that future conventions be
frightened by the presence of more wo-
men.
A paper by Professor S. M. Emery,
director of the Montana experiment sta
ton, was as follows:
There is future for the range bust
ness, and it is being successfully dem
onstrated in many parts of Montana
and Wyoming. It is that which moves
the cattle far out in. the early spring
Gent growth and calves have been
branded, on the vast extent of plains
country covering, perhaps, $4,000 square
miles, lying in the northeast portion of
Montana. there to summer, and to wax
fat as did Jeshurun of old; after
the beef roundup is over, the steers
out and marketed and the late calves
branded, the punches will be moved
south and west towards the settled
portions Of the state, and the cows and
calves and young steers be turned i'll
side pastures and fed to hay, with the
result that losses will be trifling and a
short cut of a year be taken upon the
maturity of every steer sent to market.
Cattle raising inside fields is profitable
in the Middle West, on lands worth
from $50 to 500 per acre. Why may
it not SO be made in the Northwest,
with the combination of cheap and rent
free lands? Any western man knows
the virtue found in the forage and
grain produced in western chimes, where
the sapping rains, which exhaust all
nutriment from forage plants, are lack
ing at the time Of year when growth
and hardening Is most to be desired.
There can be no question but that the
western cattle business will be reorgan-
lied upon these lines. There is natural
wealth in the wild grasses of the plains,
almost beyond computation. It is val
liable solely as it is consumed in it's
proper season, and manufactured, if
you please, into the choicest of cuts
of beef and mutton and the cleanest
and strongest fibre wool that goes to
market. This profit must not be lost
sight of; it must be utilized
1T was formerly fashionable to pirate
upon the extinction of the native
grasses; upon their having run out;
upon their having been destroyed by
the hoof of the sheep. This is an error.
All these grasses require to regain their
pristine proportions is moisture and
heat from proper combination. The
past season, with it's five and one-half
inch rainfall in the months Of May and
June, followed by warm growing
weather, was a new revelation to every
plainsman. Hay could be cut on every
bench, and the pity was that it could
not all have been consumed and con-
verted. The results of this season have
left new Impressions of the future of
the wild grasses on the minds of many
interested stock men.
'If we apply the Golden Rule, The
greatest good to the greatest number
to the problem, no regrets will be ex-
pressed, save by those directly losers
by this change, that the open range in
dustry is to be circumscribed. The ex-
pertinent station of Montana has never
recommended a settler from Eastern
states to move onto and occupy gov
eminent land. 1t did not believe the
time was ripe, that irrigation was too
nearly a science to be undertaken by
the uniformed and that for. the pres
ent at least, very much safer results
would accrue by newcomers purchasing
the improved farm lands, which can
always be bought cheaper than they
can be settled and improved. Yet, the
time is close at hand when the settled
nuclei will extend outward the homes
carved out of the government land"
Among the executive committee mem
bers and alternates announced for the
year were: California, H. A. Jastro,
w. H. McKittrick; Colorado, John w.
Springer, G. f. Patrick; Idaho, ]. d.
Wood, H. B. Chattin; Montana, John
M. Holt. c. J. Mcnamara; Nebraska,
Peter Jansen, M. A. Daugherty; Ne
vada, John Sparks, L. L. Bradley; New
Mexico, w. c. Mcdonald: Utah, H. Col
lister, Jesse M. Smith; Washington, 7.
S. Blyth, Grant Copeland; Wyoming,
D. M. Stickney, Ora Haley.
A paper by Colonel Ike M. Prior on
1.-THE Cuban Cattle Trade" was read
Adjournment for the day was then
taken.