The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-06-16
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The advantages #of keeping good
/ stock are twofold. First. they are
y more eos onomical to keep consuming
less food for given result. Second,
they oduces more dairy products and
sell Tor a higher price per pound as.
beef. The first point: is well illustrated
by the parable Of two steam engines.
Given two engines Of equal size. one
"a rattletrap and the other Of the best.
make and in good order. The old (
rattletrap will use up more fuel than
the other, will make more smoke, and !
very probably will produce vastly more
noise in running. Buts IT will not de-
Svelop anywhere near as much power
as the better machine. Over and over I
again It has been demonstrated thai
a good steam engine is cheaper than
a poor one, because it saves fuel tt.
IS cheaper to run. 81
An animal is a living steam engine,
and the food is the fuel. to be con--s
8Yerted into energy, or beef, or mill,
according to whether it is a horse or
"a beef critter or a dairy COW. And,
like a steam engine, a well bred animal.
will utilize, the material to- be trans
formed to better. advantage than will.
a scrub. This fact has been verified
SO many times that it would seem
almost useless to dwell upon it, but
some farmers are skeptical. All such
q would refer to the records Of our
experiment stations connected with
agricultural colleges, or with the rec
ords Of any Of the many experiments
carried on along this line. s3 s
&. The second point, that the product.
is worth more, is easily seen to be true:
in the case Of dairy products, where
the actual quantity of product is
greater. 1t is well known that we'll
bred herds of dairy cattle. produce :.
better milk, in greater quantities per
mead, than do even the very best OF
scrubs. And the point that. the beef
from well bred stock sells for more
per pound can also be easily proven.
ASK any, buyer OF cattle and he will
tell you that thoroughbred stock is
more even in size, is more, uniform
as to condition and appearance and
quantity of flesh, and will command
better than the market price very
often, and will always command the
highest market price. This advantage
is in addition to the fact that thor
oughbred< stock will make more flesh
from a given amount of feed than will &
scrub stock, so that it gives a double
advantage to- well-bred cattle over
scrubs. - Il. + go
s l had personal demonstration of
this point last winter which will not
soon forget. I took bunch of cattle
to Milwaukee and sold them there.
The man to whom solo them said
that he would have given one third to
one-half AGENT a pound more for them
II they had been Of a good beef breed.
' This is q frequent case, and it is well
understood. that q nice, even bunch Of
OF good beef breed will always
command a higher price: than scrubs
cattle not fitted for, beef. It would
seem that no farmer could hesitate
about the wisdom of keeping the best
stock under these circumstances. They
will cost no more, and perhaps not as
much to keep as poor stock, and will
produce more, while the product viii
sell for higher price 81