The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-04

at the kernadona Exposition in Chicago


Der, attend it's meetings and cooper
ate in suggesting measures which will
result in a better understanding of
what Improved siiTe stock is and how
to grow it and feed.sit to a finish on
the farms of the Northwest.
The railroads have made reduced
rates for all who may attend. Parties
purchasing tickets should take are
ceipt, for which a charge of 25 cents
is made. Those holding receipts will
be entitled to return at one third fare
s The members of the association be-
Heye that if price and quality are
equal, live stock bred in Minnesota is
better for Minnesota men than that
brought in from other states, and mu-
tual interests are promoted by buying
at home.
That the live stock business is grow
ing in the Northwest is shown by the
business of the South ST. Paul stock
yards during the past year. There be-
ing an average increase of nearly 25
per cent in all lines. Every other CEN
ter in the country, however, showed
more or less decrease,
Unfortunately Minnesota has no
bureau of statistics, as in the more
progressive states, and it is difficult
to get accurate information whereby
local comparisons of growth can be
made, and good accomplished in many
ways, but it is to be hoped the COM
ing legislature will put the state right
in this respect.
Minnesota is already great in the
production of butter. 1t can be made
greater It can be made a foremost
state in the production of meat sup
plies Our climate is adapted to the
growth of the best qualities Of beef,
pork, mutton and poultry. We are be-
hind Iowa, in these particulars. Even
Nebraska and Kansas are running
even pace or leading us. This should
not be so. We have material advan-
taTes over the prairie states. BY CO.
operation and a better understanding
among our farmers andsstock men,
possible through association, Mime
sofa can be made one of the great
stock raising states of the Union, and
money made to flow freely into every
community in our broad domain.
Scrub Cattle Must Go.
The common scrub cattle of this state
and the Northwest must go. 1t must be
so if success is desired, because 1t is
not profitable to breed such stock.
That is to say, under the most favor
able circumstances, it is improbable
as compared to the breeding of better
stock. It costs but little more to grow
a Shorthorn or Hereford or Holstein
than it does to grow the lean, bOny
scrub Some may say that it costs no
more, but that is not exactly so. The
usual plan of breeding and taking care
of improved breeds costs more than
the usual plan of breeding and feed
ing the scrubs. The first outlay in es
tablishing a breed of thoroughbreds is
more, of course, but it pays very soon.
It always has paid when it has been
carefully and practically done, and it
always will pay. 1t may not be advisa-
bic to wipe all the common stock out of
existence, but most of 1t ought to be
SLAUGHTERED as soon as possible. 1t is
unp2ying. There are thousands of
COWS in Minnesota that have never
paid a cent Of profit, and never could
under any sort of treatment. 1t is a
waste of feed and time to keep them
The block is the place for such cattle.
There are thousands CT others that do
not pay that would pay some profit If
they had better treatment. 1t should
not be forgotten that our common
stock, as q whole, would compare bet
ter care. One might take the best ami
ter care. Den might take the best ami
NAL and the best breed in the world
and treat it as some. common cattle
are treated and 1t would become
worthless. 1t is care as we'll as blood
that makes a breed and maintains its
standard. ~s~~--
rid of all native stock at one stroke.
Breed them up. Breed them up by
careful selection, if there is no other
way. Breed them up by purchasing a
thoroughbred male when that is posi-
BILE; there ere very few communities
now that cannot afford to take this on
ward~step. In the first place, many
low-priced bulls ara being constantly
solo. There is scarcely public sale at
| which such animals cannot be bought.
There may be and usually is some rea-
son for their selling low that is abso-
lutely of no consequence to the prac-
teal farmer, who wants to br reed cattle
for milk or beef. Perhaps they may
not be Of the most fashionable fami-
lies. Fer practical purposes on the
farm that makes nc difference An un-
fashionable. COW that gives as much
and rs goad milk as a Fashionable COW
| is Just as good to the Farmer, who is
not bresding stock 10 sell, as any COW
can be.