Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-03

them Craze on government lands AS he
made more money he bought more cattle
and to make a long story short, he is now
millionaire and is growing richer and
richer 1t was in his office In Calgary
that I chatted with this man on cattle
raising. Said he:
There has never been such a country for
money making as this. All We have had to
90 has been to turn the cattle out ON the
prairie and let them grow into gold The
climate is such that they can feed out OF
doors all the year round. and the grass
fattens them almost as we'll as grain.
mnow shipping to Liverpool stock which
have never tasted corn. They are grass
fed and their flesh is hard enough to stand
the voyage"
Not as well granted stock?" asked l.
Perhaps not" was the reply. But they
cost less to raise and they are worth more
money to u.s.
Canada Cattle for England.
What can you get for good steer, Mr..
Burns?"
"A four year-old, At for the market, will
bring $40 here" was the reply.
What will it sell for in LIVERPOOL
"Seventy-fve or eighty dollars. 1t costs
Just about $50 to get 1t there for We must
send 1t 1000 miles by rail and then across
the Atlantic ocean. The people who handle
such cattle expect to make 81 or IS a head
f1OW nucn 90 Sucn animals weigh.
II have shipped many which have aver
aged one ton each and we sell hundreds
which will weigh 1,GU0 pounds. Such
beasts are entirely grass fed
But will not the stock business now fall
off? 1 understand that the ranches are
being cut up into farms
Yes, that will be the case with ranching
pure and simple, although stock raising
wild grass to support one steer; on the
farms the same land will support ten. We
have about 10000 cattle in this
vicinity. We snail eventually have 1900,
Co.,"
Wheat-Fed Beef.
But what kind of feed can you raise for
fattening stock? You are too far north for
corn
I'VE don't expect 10 raise corn. We
have wheat oats and barley. Much of the
best meat Is now made of wheat. The
screenings and rough wheat are saved for
feed and the cattle Craze on the stubble.
When wheat is low it Is more profitable to
feed 1t than sell it. I know Il man who re-
Gently tried the experiment of faxenlng
hogs with wheat. He had sixteen and he
fed them on wheat that cost 20 cents
bushel. The hogs fattened so easily that
his wheat, turned into pork, netted him
dollar and twenty-five cents a bushel.
Wheat at 80 cents a bushel will bring far
more in pork or beef than at the elevator.
pork" continued Mr.. Burns. 1T grows
well In Canada, and It will to a large ex-
tent take the place that corn does in the
United States. Our barley-fed hogo will
bring several cents more per pound than
your corn-fed hogs. l expect TO see
barley-pork packing center grow up here"
American Meat in Canada.
Does Canada buy much of our meat?"
Yes, we get most OF our pork from Chi
nd we aIc bpVtpqr m fill
shipments to England. All your meat
that comes here pays tariff of cents
pound but even at that your packing ar
rangements are on such q vast scale that
you have far been able to undersell us.
We are also importing poultry into nart"~''
Canada from the United States. brought
in twenty-five carloads of turkeys last
Christmas. Eventually we will RAISE these
things ourselves, and we viii be shipping
fowls direct to England
Raising Blooded Horses.
One of the large stock businesses here is
horse raising l saw thousands of horses
feeding on the prairies between here and
Medicine Hat, and passed large herds on
my way north to Edmonton. The horses
are fine looking. The day of the broncho
and the broncho buster have passed, and
the animals now breeding handled by
the stock men, SO that they are compare
all the best known horses are represented.
There are Clydes from Scotland, thorough
bred Shires from England and Percherons
from France. Some of the ranchers are
raising trotting stock, and others park sad
dlers for our city markets. Robin Adafr,
which recently took the first prize at the
New York horse show, was reared just out
side of Calgary, and near by there Is
stockman who has /. 200 Percheron mares.
There are stallion shows here every year,
and they compare with the cattle shows In
quality.
A Visit to a Horse Ranch
I drove out over the prairie yesterday to
the Robinson horse ranch. This is devoted
to rearing Clydesdale and Shires for the
markets of British Columbia and eastern
Canada. These horses are In great demand
In the mining regior.s. some of them going
as far north as Alaska. Leaving Calgary,
we drove for several hours over a rolling
prairie covered with a thick grass, now
cured into hay. 1t is brown on top but
green near the roots. The horses feed on
such grass all the year round. They are
pastured in the midst of the winter, even
when the ground Is covered with snow.
They paw the snow away with their feet,
and as the cowboys tell me, come out hog
fat In the spring.
The ranch buildings here consist of
dwelling worth perhaps about 5000. barn
the size of a country livery stable and
number of corrals The horses live on the
pTairies and the buildings are c0n1par1 tive
ly cheap. The owner of this ranch although
he Is worth half a million dollars. lives as
simply as the ordinary store clerk of one
of our cities. His house here Is comfort
able but not pretentious. and during our
call his wife apoiogized for her appearance.
saying that she had just come from super
intending the dressing of some hogs which
freely about her ranch life, saying that she