Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-06-28
Dugald Campbell Delivers an m
Interesting Address on
This Subject
Before the Stock Raisefs'
Convention at Mandan--
Many Suggestions

Heretofore, it has been sheep ranging
that was allotted to me, but for this
meeting your secretary very CONSIDER
ately asked me to name my own sub
ject.
without any hesitation, choose
sheep-farming rather than ranging.
and section sheep-farm at that.
Although / have followed the business
for many years, ! have never been en-
amored with ranching, and have al
ways thought that would feel very
much more at home on a sheep-farm
akin to the farms on the other side
the Atlantic; therefore I hope may
be able to say helpful word to some
of you who may be interested now,
or intend engaging in sheep-farnning.
IN good faith / promised Professor
Richards that i would try to keep in
side section lines, butt find that is
pretty hard for an old-timer to do, and
if / jump the track, blame me only,
and give me chance to get back to
the farm in my own way.
If a gathering such as this VIII only
tend a little towards making life on
the farm more attractive for the boys
and girls, our meeting will not be in
vain. It has been partly the pain Of
seeing so many children forced to-
herd small focks of sheep, that has
caused me to become such strong
advocate Of fenced pastures.
Helping to feed or lamb, or even
herd a few hours a day in the spring
time is good work, and labor the:
young folks will enjoy, but, for
sweet humanity's sake, leave sheep
alone, If You are going to make
children herd them during the long
hot summer days, causing their
bright morning faces to become wan
and weary waiting for the setting
sun.
But, while we are particularly anx-
ious to assist the rising generation it
BELTS us also to take to ourselves
whatever Of encouragement is due to
us. One of our consultations is, that
every last dollar we wrest from those
prairies, we can look square in the
face, and not be afraid that it is
tainted with the ruin Of others
Another comfort that live stock
breeders may appreciate to them.
selves, is the thought that while the
production Of cereals is being vastly
increased here and in Canada, the
numbers Of cattle and sheep are not
nearly keeping pace with the growth
of population. z u I. Han.
The horse has been ably represent.
ed here today, and am willing to
admit that even on a sheep farm
the horse is a very useful animal 2
as we used to say in school. But OF
late years driving over the country
and seeing so many steam and gas.
oline ploughs and threshers ait work
and every once in while getting out
the way OF a speeding automobile, ii
has cansed me to wonder after all
II there is anything in Edison's proph
ecy regarding the coming OF a
horseless'' age.
But, who ever foretold or can even
imaginee a sheepless age, or a. COW.
less age! And now, DR.. Wiley the
chief Chemist at Washington tells us
that flesh foods may be eaten in
chunks, with little mastication, and
are meant to be SO eaten. Science
and experience seem to bear out his
statement; therefore the demand for
our beef and mutton ought largely
to increase in this Goth century-au
age in which good natural teeth are
the exception, and unsound or arti
fetal teeth the; rule. .l
However, as 1t viii take about !
Thousand years before horses viii be
1Irosities. in the meantime 1 would
Z strongly advise every sheep farmer
keepfng at least pair Of as good
brood mares as he can gel.
We have been looking forward but
in looking backward there Is inspira,
ton for us here today. Forty years
ago we were taught that here was
the American desert But the deseri
kept calling, and the call was ans.
Wered from many lands Some came
looking for fame and fortune, but for
funately most OF us came looking for
~ home, and bread and butter.
T has been no 81 Dorado, but North
Dakota has been grand and d good
country for a poor man, ais most 81
here can testify. Twenty odd years
ago we ranchmen thought we e.
auired township to run band 81
sheer y. Conditions kept chang.
Ing, and seven years ago 1T d meet.