The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1901-05-09
Stock Ranches.

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| The lively interest now being tax
en- in central South Dakota lands
has called out many abe articles on
the possibilities of stock ranches and
| dairy farms. Among these articles
| is one from Hon. j. III. King, ofHur
ION, published in the South Dakota
4 and Western Advocate, n new publ
4 cation inst started ut Scotland. a
portion of it is herewith produced:
/ "The records show that Central
South Dakota stands at the head OF
| the list of stock growing countries
| OF the world for health. The cale
brated mare, Matte Patterson. was
born and taised in Sully- county,
| South Dakota. Plenty ofhorses are
| being reared without barn or she'd
OF any grain, that weigh 1400 to
100 pounds. The footrot or any
other disease in sh eap is practically
uGknown.
| There are two systems OF raising
cattle in South Dakota, on, is by
the ranchers West OF the Mi ssoufi
River where they simply own their
cattle and do not owa land but rely
upon the government entirely, or
other peoples land. They put up
some hay to be used in OF storm
| but as rule their cattle are BRAID
ed and roam over the prairie with
other men s cattle.
They ridicule the. iden OF Buying
land and make extravagnut state.
ments about the number OF acres
| that it takes to feed one steer, and
\ do everything in their power to dis
courage new settlers, or any settlers
at all, or the small stock owners, or
the men who seek to own and fence
their land for their cattle to Craze
upon; for when this is done the
chances to get rich of OF other ppo.
pies property or Uncle Sans ceas-
es.
After having taken the testim )li-
ais OF q very large number OF ranch
ers in Beadle, Hanil, Hyde, Hughes.
Sully, .Ierauld, Buffalo and other
counties in the State, notwithstand-
ing there will be Others that will dif
fer with me, yet | have at least
thor oughly satisfied myself that a
quarter section OF land will take
care of twenty-five head OF cattle,
young and old, as the ordinary
rancher may have them, without
cultivation OF the ground; in other
words, that section OF land will
take care OF one hundred head OF
cattle, young and old, COWS, calves,
and steers, winter and summer.
To do this man would want to
divide the section OF into pastures
of at least n half section. so TINT
one pasture might be used for hay
and one for pasture.
Another cement OF ranching in
this portion oil the state which
should not he lost sight OF, and Is
by far the most prolific III it's rela-
ton to the wealth OF the individual
rancher OF anything else, is that OF
making butter and cheese. The use
OF the milk separator fer separating
the milk from the cream, feeding the
warm milk to the calves with a lit
tie "calf food, y" oil cake" or AJAX
seed meal, to supply the butter fnl
taken from the milk, makes strong
calves and returns to the owner an
average of $3.50 in cash for butter
from each COW, and besides he has
the calf.
r Mr.. +. T. Losey, OF this county
last year averaged SIT 90 apiece fol
D his % head OF cows, for the butter
, John Armstrong, Of DeSmet, last
. year received ~ few cents Owe
II $50 90 per head for butter, from II
. cows, and states that his cattle
). averaged him $76.OO per head in
! lcluding calves, and milk used Z