Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-08-20
OUR FARMERS.
LIVESTOCK in THE EAST.


cows was read with much interest. l
wish to get breed of such cows, as l
am not in a location where / can |
make a special business of either
dairy or beef products, but must keep |
cattle to use up the rough feed OF the
farm. The Devon, Red Poll and
Brown Swiss breeders all claim they |
have the best. What would be your
| choice?
If you are not in position to keep
cows for the dairy nor especially raise
beef, you certainly should not engage
| in the breeding of pure bred animals
of either the beef or dairy breeds, nor
any pure bred cattle even of the COM
bined beef and milk breeds, like those
you name. / think see your situa-
tion. You have rough fodder to work
down into manure to keep up the fer
| tility of your farm. In that case L
go into what is termed the baby beef
business. Go in the market and buy
some good grade heifers, or even COWS
such as can be bought at low figures
getting good sized animals. Then
buy a pure bred beef bull, getting
one of poll breed, the Polled Angus
or Galloway being preferable, as they
are of pronounced beef type. They
are black in color and their calves will
mostly be black; which will make the
calf more valuable on account of its
hide. They will be uniform and will
sell at top prices when from SIX
months to year old. They will in
variably be good feeders and will eat
your rough fodder, and with little
grain given to top them off will sell at
any time. If at any time you desire
to unload the mothers you can do SO
when they are dry with little grain
: feeding.
At the present TINA I am finishing
up western tour of investigation OF
livestock conditions on the farms OF
the Middle West and the ranches OF
the Far West, clear to the Pacific
Coast, and in round numbers, fifteen
,, hundred miles up the coast to Seattle;
, |
convinced that the opportunity is
here for the eastern farmer who is
situated SO as to engage in cattle rails
ng to 60 into the business. might
F; add also sheep and horse raising. I
have seen no point in the great West
. where the owner of farm Or ranch
!, stands any better chance of succets
than does the eastern farmer of today.
+ In fact, the chances from my stand
a point are in. favor of the eastern
farmer. His slands, as. rule, are
:, cheaper. His markets are not con-
a trolled by few men, as they are in
his door for calf, steer, COW, lamb,
sheep, colt or horse, with him largely
to fix the price.
In some respects, however, the
a eastern farmer needs to follow west
= ern practices. refer more particu-
$ larry to the use of pure bred sires.
Good calves, colts, lambs, pigs, OF
= even chicken, cannot come from the
|
i; bboars Or roosters. From the time
n reached Iowa, as l crossed the Mis-
d souri, River at Omaha, journeyee
O. through Nebraska, Colorado, Utah
e California, up the coast through Ore
: gon to Washington, saw only three
II, bulls running with herds of scrul
- cows that were not we'll bred bulls
-, Herein lies all the secret there is abou
the range steer having supremacy
on He has good sire. With the west
ern horse it is the same; also, th
Ii, western hog is better bred hog tina
Is, the eastern one, as a rule. The west
le' ern man, who lives in a hut some
W. times, with naught but a straw Gov
cred shed for his animals, will inves
- money in pure bred sires. The eas
,o1 ern man will sometimes have geN
IS. gaw barn, with a hundred-dolls
weather vane on top, and would NJ
&c invest $50 in good bull or SO in
ram Or boar, and would use the sta
lion whose service could be got Il
,ei, cheapest, regardless of breeding
freedom from blemish.
.al. The new East Il will call it that in
breeding sense must abandon the
sh- by far too common practices; thu
Dts conditions will rapidly change. a
a making an extended answer, as co
del slider your conditions not dissimil
OK: from thoe. of +honsonds of otbers
=, over the East; and believe we a
i've living on the verge of a change for
better.-C. ID. Smead. " S.