The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-01-27

IN blue grass liable to occasional over
lows. l have twenty to thirty grade
Shorthorn COWS. but don't want TO do
very much milking. Stock &Snust be
Kept or land will run down. Please
give us your advice. q. r. +.
Our inquirer is we'll fixed perhaps to
follow either one of two lines, but he
objects to The one the most profitable,
that is the milking and the creamery
business. He cannot raise cattle sue
cessfully otherwise unless he grows
beef baby beef and this he can do
almost as we'll by patronizing cream
cry or by the farm separator. If we
were in the place of c. r. +. we would
milk some of The COWS, and either
sell cream or make good quality OF
butter and sell to consumers. Let the
other calves follow the COWS, put two
calves on some of them perhaps, and
get the calves to eating grass before
they are Weaned. Then we would
would vaccinate against blackleg and
feed those calves. Never let them get
hungry. Feed corn. oats and bran With
a little oilmeal toward the finish.
When we got them weighing thou
sand pounds we would ship. We might
ship sooner if the market indicated
wisdom of such a move or hold longer.
We would weigh occasionally and when
they failed to make good gains we
would ship to market unless we could
find some way of having them go
ahead again. These calves would al
ways be fat and so soon as they We're
heavy enough to suit the market they
could go. In a word we would raise
them just as the good farmer does his
hogs. 1t will be no harder to Il thou
sand pound year old calf than to have
a pig weigh three hundred at eight or
nine months and some do this.
! For roughness clover hay would be
just right and this is what the good
Of the farm demands. All small grain
should have clover sown With it. A
crop of hay. a seed crop, possibly, or
an aftermath hay crop and ploW for
corn-another crop of corn, then oats
and clover again. Thus two crops of
( corn would be raised each four years.
All the grain raised would be used on
the farm and economy of feed would
be accomplished by the use Of a silo.
| lInsilage is a new feed in much of
the central west. but with higher
priced land there is no question but
! that it will soon become more popular.
/ We wish our readers who do not be-
| iieve in ensilage to remember this, we
| never knew anyone to use Il Silo and
not be pleased with the results if his
ansiage was properly put up. En-
silage would enable our friend to WIN
ter his cows cheaply as we'll as to help
him grow beef. His grade Shorlhorn
COWS are all right for this purpose and
he needs a first class bull. The sire
is half of his increase each year and
few dollars on each calf will pay the
difference between Il real good one and
one that is just fair.
Hogs should be raised and pushed tC
maturity rapidly. We would arrange
to have the pigs come early so as tC
care for the farrow before farm worl,
is pushed. This means good warm
houses. Pastures. of course. will be
needed for both hogs and cattle anC
the rotation might be heightened to an.
other year by pasturing the seconf
year after sowing clover and timothy
Il years pasturing. We would aim tt
feed all our farm produces and buy
some bran, oil meal and shorts. NOR,
or less depending on prices of thes,
feeds and of the stock.
If we did not have Il silO we would
experiment with cutting corn an,
shredding the fodder. Prices of feet
and labor will govern the protitablenes
of this mode of producing feed Tn
blue grass pasture is valuable but will
need to be supplemented With othe
fields Of timothy, clover, bronze grass
etc. We believe this sort of farmin;
will win and the farm will continual,
increase in fertility as all manure mad
will be promptly applied to the LAND
Corn crops will increase twenty bushel
per acre if proper seed and soil prep
aration is made and cultivation j
GOOD. The land may become too ricl
} for oats, then Snecial care will b
| needed to select varieties which stan
up we'll or some other small graf
raised in the place, though we woul
not like to do without oats.