The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-01

be figured on. 1t will thus be seen that
the growing Of sugar beets requires
quite an outlay, and that il the crop
De partlal failure it will be very easy
for the cost per ton to exceed the res
celpts per ton, which are usually from.
- 70 20. We do not say this to dis
courage any from growing sugar beets,
put that they may not forget to take
these thlngs into consideration when
preparing to grow beets.
Ens'apds Supply OF Store Cattle.
Inc rearing and selling of store cat
tie IS Que OF the most important and
lucrative departments of Irish stock
ofeeolhg, says the English Live Stock
journal. The trouble and expense Of
raising young cattle" have little to do
with IT, Though we always advise
pieeains IN preference to buying 1t
must be recognized that in parts OF
Ehglahd and Scotland the system Of
farming and other circumstances rem
der 1t more convenient to buy than TO
preed store cattle. The expense is
probably as great to buy the stores as
TO breed them-at any rate, the farmer
VINO buys and feeds large number Of
stores is, as a rule, CAPITALIST, and
the plan suits him best. The agricul-
turlsts OF Canada and the United
States would certainly like very we'll
to GUST Ireland from this profitable
market. The extensive pasture lands
OF ireland enable the farmers of Great
brltaln, and especially those of Scot
iana, 10 forego, to great extent, the
trouple and expense of raising young
STOCK. Inc frames Of the store cat
tie exported from Ireland are built up
out OF the Irish grass lands, the ami
mails being fattened and finished" In
Great Britain. This interesting in
stance it is stated, "of territorial
division OF labor, within the sphere
OF agriculture, between different coun-
tries, affords evidence, for one thing,
OF the fine bone-producing qualities Of
the great limestone plains of Ireland.
At the same time so great an expan-
sion of the export trade in store cattle
as has now taken place involves an
exhausting drain on great natural re-
source of the country"
On the same subject Live Stock
Journal (of Chicago says:
AS there has been no case of pleuro-
pneumonia in the 100000 Canadian cat
tie landed and slaughtered at British
ports since 1896 the English and Scot
fish farmers are again protesting
against the continuance of the en-
barge of Canadian live cattle as stores
(feeders). Ireland supplied Great
Britain 427,S91 store cattle last year,
and half as many fat cattle Of the
bulls used in Ireland for breeding there
We're, according to the official returns,
S,4O6 Shorthorns, 329 Herefords, 764
Aberdeen-Angus, 116 Red Polled, 376
Kerry, 103 DeXters, 66 Channel Islands,
and 4,l26 cross-bred and other bulls.
The total is 1926 of which 1886
were bred in Ireland and $50 were i'm
ported.
Great Britain has increased her pas
ture lands from 100000 acres in 1870
to 100000 acres in 1900. That is,
more than half of the 100000 acres
of farm land is in pasture. This in
dlcates the extent of live stock breed
ing and feeding among British farmers
on their high-priced lands much higher
than any American farms. AS the
competition Ct ,. - grain from for
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lands as the highest soureei of agri-
cultural prosperity. So, too, will our
eastern and southern STATES find in