The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-04-28
STATES STOCK AND DAIRY.
Great Combination of Opportunities
for Money Making Offered the New
comer-Developmen of Dairyinu.

comer-Developmen of Dairyng.
No better cattle, hogs, sheep and
horses are raised anywhere than those
grown in South Dakota. 1t is esti-
mated that $50 $50, 900 worth of cattle
were marketed in South Dakota in
1903. Grass fat steers have sold as
high as cents a pound on the Chi
cago' market, and one South Dakota
firm sold 9S4 head of corn-fed steers
for sl02.S46. The corn on which they
We're fattened Was all produced in the
vicinity of the feed yards.
South Dakota is we'll adapted to the
raising of horses and mules, and South
Dakota horses are the best in the
world for cavalry service. AS sheep
country it is not surpassed by any
other. Comfortable fortunes have been
made by sheep men in ten years.
Hogs are easily and profitably rails
ed. In but few localities in the state
has hog cholera ever made its appear
ance.
stock cattle. where stock Craze all Win
ter without hay grain or shelter, and
the fertile farms of the grain belt, for
finishing, afford a combination of in
terests and opportunities not else
where equaled for live stock money
making.
BY the last federal census South Da-
llota had $lG0 worth of live stock per
capita, Iowa 1922, Minnesota $40 and
Wisconsin $45.
Money in Dairyine.
Dairying is profitable in every part
of the state, feed being abundant, pas
turage costing almost nothing, and the
price received for butter and eggs be-
ing practically the same as where land
is worth 500 an acre. South Dakota
now ranks twelfth among the dairy
states of the Union. and at it's present
rate of progress it will soon be among
the first five. The quality of butter
produced is not equsled by any other
state, the product from its creameres
bringing the highest price on the New
York and Boston markets and being
more sought after than any other but
ter for its "holGing up" qualities and
perfect flavor.
There are about l25 creameries in
successful operation throughout the
state, all under the regulation OF
state food and dairy commissioner.
The report of the commissioner for
1902 shows detailed reports of IS
creameries for twelve months. These
SO creameries handled III ,265. 2O9
pounds of milk, for which there was
distributed among S,156 patrons ST.
pa, 503.30. The patrons received an
average price of II 1-2 cents a pound
for their butter and an average price
for milk of IS cents hundred. The
average amount drawn by each patron
for the year was Sl5Sl0.
Taking these figures as basis, the
total amount of money paid to the pa
irons of the creameries of the state
would exceed 50 100000 No figures are
at hand for estimating the amount OF
| dairy butter made and sold aside from
| the production of the creameries. but
| it is safe to say that the creameries do
| not produce more than cue-thlrd of the
| total amount.
| Production of 1904.
The following table of productions
| is taken from the Annual Review OF
| the Progress of the State for 1904,
compiled by the State Historical soci-
| ETY., and was not intended for adver-
Using purposes, but to set down the
| historical fact:
Wheat 2415o,oo0 bu. s15,939 900
Corn $3.50. 600 bu ..... l4,12l, 600
BARLEY 1903 900 bu.. 4.67l000
| Oats 80 4SO. 900 bu . S,e0o0O0
| RIVE 231O.oOO bu.. l,3SGooo
FLAX coo 600 bu. 2l000 900