Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-07-13
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The New York Tribune Farmer
founded by Horace Greeley, you re
memberl had an interesting article last
week written by their paid veterinary
surgeon, G. p. Smead. A New York
state horse breeder asks the veterna-
rian II horses can be raised in pad
docks in New FORK state in profitable
competition with western range horses.
The following is the veterinarians re-
ply, which suggests food for thought
for horse and cattle breeders both east
and west:
My dear friend, and perhaps twenty
thousand others: Your question comes
in pat, as the boys say, for I am
answering it fully twelve hundred
miles from home, whereI am visiting
The great horse breeding sections OF
the West; also horse ranches. / see
horses being raised on the lands of
Iowa which are selling for from $55 to
$l00 and more an acre, and sold by the
farmers to dealers to go TO the Chicago
horse marts and be sold at auction;
many Of them TO go to New York ana
New England to do the work on land
that is seeking buyers at from $40 to
$50 an acre, the farmer thinking his
Eastern farm too high in price to de-
vote to horse raising. / confess the
thing looks to me as though something
was out of joint, aHd the dislocation
needs reducing. 1t is therefore with
pleasure that | answer your question,
and beg leave to more than answer it,
and include beef cattle as we'll as
horses. Up here, / have travelled
many miles, and have seen thousands
OF horses and cattle pasturing on land
that the farmer had paid from $50 to
$85 or more an acre for, and borrow
ed money on mortgage at 6, and in
some cases per cent to run his busi-
ness with, selling his cattle at what
ever price the Beef Trust said he
should sell for, and selling his horses
either at home for what dealer offer
ed him or taking them East, meaning
Chicago, for up here Chicago is East
TO them, and New York City or Bos-
ton Is so far away one might as well
speak Of Hong Kong or Pecking
Chicago is their horse market and
cattle market. Here 1t is the horses
are sold at prices the Eastern dealer
fixes, to be taken down to your town
and thousand others. TO be sold again
to do the work in those towns and
Eastern cities and on many farms.
Now let us all halt ard look at the
mater squarely and honestly. Here
we see the Western farmer struggling
to pay for a home on high priced land,
with debt on which he is paying
twice the interest an acre the Eastern
farmer is paying. The taxes on the
Western farm are proportionately as
much higher to meet the land i'm
provement demands by reason OF both
drainage and irrigation, schools and
highways. He is striving to do Ii with
horses, cattle and hogs principally.
Now, look East and see farmers buy
ing the horses. buying the beef and
buying the ham and the bacon raised
on the Western mans farm. Betwixt
and between stopped in Chicago and
witnessed the horse sales, the cattle
and pig selling, and the killing Of
them also. | was courte0usly shown
through the great plant Of Swift.
Armour * Co., where everything Is
saved OF q pig but the squeal, and that
would be saved Ii they did not kill and
have him made into ham, bacon. lard
sausage and soap before he had time to
squeal.
But am getting off Of my subject
The Western farmer has struggle
equally as great as-yes, greater
than -that OF the Eastern farmer. A.
be IL bound, while the Eastern farmer
is not, simply because, with his cheap
er farm, just as we'll adapted To the
raising of horses, cattle--yes. beef
cattleand pigs, and far better for
sheep, he has no organized trust to
handicap him. His market is not at
one central point, but his nearby town
or city furnishes that for every good
horse, bovine, lamb, sheep, pig and pig
and chicken ne can raise, and he him
sell can TX q price less than the dealer
or trust will fix for selling. and vet
make a good profit.
Now am relieved, and will get down
to you and your business. Yes. you
can raise horses la your part OF the
State of New York. I know Il well:
and you can raise them with the uad-
dock to run la for exercise upon the
grasses and grains just as we'll as they
can be raised by running Id 4 pasture