The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-01
PROFESSOR HovERsTAD TALKS
On horticulture, Predicting u bright
Future for North Dakota a.
Fruit state-clo.lns Notes.

stock grow SO rapidly that they were
ready for the choice markets long be-
fore the usual time. In word it
meant getting the animal at eighteen
months of age at the point in it's de-
velopment that it ordinarily reaches
In three years, thus cutting out the
expense of one and a half years keep
ing. If this is feasible there is GER
tainly a great profit for the man who
does 1T. Mr.. Wings talk was demon
stration of this possibility.
The principal portion of the address
was devoted to baby beef" To get
this, the calf should be made to attain
a weight of 1850 to 1,4O0 pounds in
eighteen months, and it would then
sell above the top of the market.
This result is attained by feeding
the proper feeds and in the right man
ner. Calves should be removed from
the dam Immediately after birth, For
the first two weeks it should have all
milk of the mother, but this should be
fed. After that time it should be given
skim milk. But as the butter fat has
been removed from this milk, and as
fat is just what the growing defect in
the food must be remedied, flax seed
mixed with the milk is probably the
most ideal food, but corn or bran will
do.
Calves should be fed in scientific
manner. Instead of the food being
poured into one general trough and
the stronger allowed to crowd away
the weaker. thus overlooking some and
starving others. Each one should have
bucket, and provision should be
made for keeping them separated
either by having box stall for each
or a stock in which they could be fat
tened. After the milk has been drank,
grain should be placed in the buckets
so that each may have portion. Ad-
ded to this should be good alfalfa hay
IN the winter, and when the milk food
Is abandoned the feeding should be
continued with fat producing feeds.
The animal should be given just all it
can digest and assimilate. In other
words the cells of the body should be
made to divide and sub-divide Just us
rapidly as possible, for by this process
the growth of the animal is made, and
this separation takes place only be-
cause of the assimilative food, The
animal should be kept in a warm, dry
place In winter SO that no fat con-
sumption would be necessary for keep
ing the animal warm.
Mr.. Wing gave an illustration of the
cost of making beef per hundred
pounds, which, while they vary &C.
cording to the cost of food supplies.
are good for comparison in showing
how much cheaper beef can be made
while the animal is young than when
1t is older. In the first year the cost
is $3.50; the second $40; and the
third $11.O0.
The same reasoning applies to the
raising of hogs, but calves intended
for dairy purposes should be less
crowded in their grown.
Mr.. Austin took up the subject of
econqmy in meat production on the
farm, The talk was largely practi-
cal one on how to supply the table of
the farmer with meat Mr.. Austin
called attention to the fact that in this
country people are large meat eaters.
In the south the principal foods are
fruits because they have cooling ef-
feet on the blood. Here heat must be
produced and this makes the meat
supply for the farmer an important
one.
Cooperation among the farmers Of
q neighborhood in dividing beet so
that there can always be fresh meat, is
good plan while the keeping of few
pigs, and the preservation OF the meat
In the pickle solution given in the
Evening Times report Of the conven-,
ton will also be strong feature. The
poultry IL another supply that can be
growA with profit and with the eggs
and the chickens are splendid sources
OF supply for the farmers table.
Prof. Hoverstad talked briefly, but
pointedly on the subject Of horticul-
ture, and outlined the plan that had
been adopted Of getting the people a
the state interested. This Is to f0r-
nish the Minnesota Horticulturaiist 25
cents, and this Includes the bound vols
umes at the end Of the YEAR
During the running discussion that
followed It was developed that some
good specimens Of crab apple had been
grown In this city. and the belief was
generally entertained that the growing
OF small fruits Was Rfactical, and an