The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-11-19
Live Stock and Dairy.
THE GREATEST OF LIVE STOCK CONVEN-
TON
81 565. 600 600 Rsnreser

S4,555, 900, 900 Represented by the National
Live Stock Association-Annual Meeting
Chicago, Leo. Srd.
correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
During the past fifty years there
have been many conventions held in
the United States representing vast
accommodations of wealth and prog
ress. But the first great Congress-
of the twentieth century, the Fifth
Annual Con vention of the National
Live Stock Association, representing
the entire industry of the nation,
which will assemble in Studebaker e
theatre, Chicago, Ill on December
3, will represent as much enterprise
and more money than any gathering
of men ever assem- bled on the globe
In 1850 the total value Of the live
stock of every State in the Union
was less than 81, 200, 900, 900; to-day
it is 81, 555, ,827 375, sum inoCmpre
hensible to the mind of man. In the
year named there were but IL, 600, 900
cattle, 81, ,22O sheep, 4,896,O5
horses and mules; to day the figures
are 1902, Ala cattle, Is, ,623, 551 horses
and mules, and 5O,2O3, 900 sheep.
Then the grade of this stock, except
in some sections of the extreme
East, was of the scrub order, which
grew and run wild upon the pastures,
To-day no finer blood nor more i'm
proved methods can be found than
in the United States. The magni
tude of this industry can only be
comprehended by comparison All
stock yard companies, packing
houses, commission exchanges and a
large per cent. Of the freight income
of all transportation companies are
merely incidents TO, and dependent
for success upon the Efforts of she
live stock growers and feeders, which
term embraces every farmer in the
Union. Live stock and cereals are
the same as cash in hand We're the
former converted into cash it would
take every dollar in circulation in
the United States and then the oOm
mission man would have to borrow
50 225, 900, 900 from foreign banks to
liqnldate the bill The cereal crop
of the country is valued at $2;O25,
116, 545, yet the live stock is worth
more than all the cereals, metals,
>tt n, lumber, sugar and tobacco
com bined. The live stock men GOULD
buy the stock of every national and
private bank in the United Sbate4
and England and then have millions
of money left fer speculation. They
could own all the stock yards and
packing houses in the country and
have a surplus of more than a billi N
dollars. They ooulC establish stock
yards company as large as the Union
Stock Yards and Transit Company
of Chicago in thirty three cities,
with capital of $3O,OOO,OOO each,
and one in every city in the Union
as large as Helena, each with Gap
ital of S14, ,22O, 600. They could build
three trans continental railway lines
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
have left $3.50, 900, 900 for a reserve
fund They could own every steel
works and smelter in America and
Europe and have a billion dollars
lefb to purchase ore with. They
could control every oceanic transpor-
tation company in the world and
have left sufficient sum to run
them fJr ten years without taking
in single dollar.
There are 5000, 900 of these noble
men in the Uni sed States. If they
we're to become so united upon pO-
litical matters, as to vote as unit,
they could elect every officer in the
nation from the President to the
most hum 5Ie, backwoods overseer.
There is absolutely no limit to the
pOssibi tiles of these men if they
should collectively divert their force
and influence in any direction.
The citizens of Chicago are making
extensive preparations to entertain
all delegates and visitors, and cor
daily invite all interested TO be their
guests during the week of December
2. CHAs. F. MARTIN, Sec'y.
Denver, Col.
Winston Journal: DR.. T. L. Cook,
of the South Side, raised 80 bushels
of corn, 3S bushels of wheat and
fair crop of leaf tobacco from an
acre and half of land this season.
He has given bigger farmers a valu-