The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-21
ARE AN EMPIRE IN. THEMSELVES
Stark Billings Hinger in Southwestern North Dakota Are Fa
nous Cow Wonderful Opportunities
Some Finest Grass Lands in the World Be Found This
ton of Which Dickinson and Medora Are Centers.

quality fringes these streams. It Is along
these creeks that ranches have been con-
structed. The cattle are turned loose
upon the grasses which do not lose their
nutritive value in any season Of the year.
Protecting cliffs and hills furnish refuge
for the stock during any storm.
Statement OF An Authority.
The kind Of natural stock food that is
to be found in Stark, Billings and Hit
finger counties may be inferred from what
Professor Waldron of the state agricul-
tural college says about the grasses of
North Dakota:
North Dakota has a grass area of 40
100000 acres, capable Of producing each
year as much beef as is represented by
half a million 3-year-old steers, allowing
twenty-five acres to each animal. These
yoked together would make an OK team
500 miles long, thus giving an idea of
the immense productiveness Of our pas
lures. Over this whole region the average
rainfall Is seventeen inches, and in no
place does it fall below thirteen inches, in
this respect being superior to most of
the other grazing lands Of the United
States.
1T is probably we'll known to most OF
YOU that q. plant does none of it's work In
the dark; that all it's active processes in
taking the simple elements in nature and
reducing them to the form Of plant tissues
and food is carried ON only in the direct
influence Of sunlight or its equivalent. But
there is sunshine that In passing through
a murky atmosphere or an atmosphere
hung with clouds and charged with mois-
ture gives up most Of it's vital or actinic
rays, and allows only the passage OF those
rays of light which have but little ilf1u.
ence upon the plants activity. It is only
in regions having a bright, clear atn1os.
phere that the maximum number Of act.
i've, vital, actinic rays come In contac'
with the plant, thus promoting those vita
processes while the food Is stored up IL
the plant, ready to be utilized by ANNA
| life. 1t is only when plant is LITERAL!
bathed in this bright. clear sunlight tina
| those special processes are carried on II
the highest degree. In addition to thi:
| necessary condition, we must also have
| the necessary amount of rainfall, and :
| rich soil. An excess of rainfall induces
rapid growth, but such plants do little IL
the way Of storing up albuminoids TIL,
| class Of substance known as albuminoid
constitutes the valuable portion Of plants
so far as furnishing food to animals i
concerned. Almubinoids constitute tn
/ flesh forming elements and those are wha
i make our grains SO valuable especially
| fed to working stock. as they supply tn
waste and tearing down Of the muscle
| arising from the exertions of the animal
I'VE would expect the condition of eli
mate and soil which we have mentions
to give us grasses which are rich in al
/ ibuminoids, and the chemists corroborat
our expectations. Upon examining tn
| tables Of chemical analysis Of grasses,
i find that four of our leading hay an
pasture grasses grown in North Dakot
give an average of 1851 per cent of al
buminoids, while the same species 9
i grasses growing In the. latitude Of I'LL
Il nois furnished an average percentage {
d almubinoids Of only 1877 per cent, Thu