Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-05-12
HIGH-GRADE CATTLE.
Profit 10 Double That Reaped From
Inferior Dreeds-N1sd0m Of
Mixed Husbandry.
GET RID OF YOUR SCRUB CATTLE
6uccessful Farmer Gives Some Pra0.
tical Suggestions Based on
Experience.

paper read by John Donelly, importer
and breeder Of Short Horn Cattle
and Poland China Pigs, before the
Walsh County Farmers Institute,
held at Park River, March 1914,
1882
1 have been requested to give my
North Dakota, and to offer some sug-
In the first place. l think it will be adj
mitted that there is no longer any
question about the wisdom of mixed
husbandry. It matters not how small
or how large the farm is, a combina-
ton Of stock and grain will prove the
most profitable in the end, and the
more stock the better. To commence
right. you must get rid of your scrub
cattle and lay your foundation in pure
bred or, at least, high-grade stock.
You may be obliged to begin in a
small way, but, by all means, make
the start. l can safely assert that the
profit from good stock is double that
reaped from the inferior. l prefer the
Short-Horn breed; others, the Aber-
deen-Angus; but I am certain your
choice should be made from these two
breeds. They are best adapted to OUT
section Of the country. High grades
grow somewhat larger than thorough
breds, and If your object is beef, they
are, perhaps, as good. I am breeding
nothing but thoroughbreds, the best
strains that 1 can find, with the idea OF
supplying the demand for the best in
the way Of sires and dams. AS an e1.
ample of how stock pays me, I win
state that I sold to G. L. Prince Of
Grafton q steer twenty-six months old
weighing 1,4O0 pounds for Christmas
beef, which netted me $1,000. 1 solo
the same gentleman two two-year.
olds the other day Which weighed Q,
700 pounds, for $4.45 per 100 weight
or $12O.15 for the two. This will give
you an idea Of the difference between
good cattle and scrubs.
As To Pasture.
In reference to pasture, l will state
that I seed to timothy. The first crop
l cut for hay. The next year l pasture
that field, and have another field. seed.
ed for the following year. I cut tho
lay early, so that it can get a good
start before harvest. l then turn the
cattle on that field, and plow the old
pasture up for wheat the following
S>oAs AAARA ~ "Ou1A UC d AlSI-C1dSH
plan to seed this pasture to oats be.
fore harvest. By so doing you would
have plenty Of fall feed and it would
be better for wheat the rext year. In
this way l keep my land clean and can
raise as much wheat off one acre as I
could off two, wheat after wheat. The
wheat ripens earlier, too, and this 10
an advantage.
Winter Feed.
l Will now state how l Winter-feed.
Millet is not a sure CROP, and 1 have
quit raising it. Instead, I raise oats
on fall blowing, seed early and cut
them as they begin to turn and plow
the ground before harvest. l raise
about 1900 bushels Of roots. l think
roots are almost essential to successful
feeding. I make these few sugges-
lions with the hope Of hearing from
my brother farmers. If there is any
better way Of proceeding than roughly
outlined above, l want to know It. I
believe IN an exchange Of ideas, and
I expect to 60 home from this meet
Ing with some new and improved
IDEAS farming.