The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-17
Live Stock Day at
Grain Convention
Wo Important Addresses on the Raising Of Cattle and Hogs
Were Delivered BY Experienced Men.

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s Fargo, N. D.. Jan. 17.-Wednesday
i've stock day. at the Tri-State
MGrain Growers convention and dis
cussion Of the ways and means Of
raising horses, sheep. cattle and hogs
and the necessity Of promoting the live
h stock industry in the state occupied
1.-THE morning session. The speakers
&were all men who are thoroughly &C
with their subjects, both
&from theoretical and a practical
Nstandpoint, and their addresses were
Efulf Of meat from start to finish.
After the meeting was called the or
der by President ]. H. Worst, the first
kspeaker to be introduced was Charles
4, McKissick. Of the well known firm of
eMcKissick Bros, live stock commits
Bsion merchants of South st. Paul. Mr..
q McKissick spoke on the Raising and
Shipping Of Cattle and Hogs. and from
L his viewpoint as a purchaser and
handler Of live stock, he was able to
give to the farmers many valuable
pointers in regard to the best way to
care for their stock and arrange for
|, It's shipment SO that it would be of the
best quality and net the highest mar
ket price. In part he said:
"The farmer intending to enter the
/ stock business proposes to raise cattle
i for beef exclusively, should take one
Of the beef strains, namely the Short
horns, Hereford, Aberdeen-Angus,
Galloway and Polled Durhams, which
of late are coming into prominence.
If he desires a special dairy, there is
a variety of choice, such as Holsteins,
Jerseys, Guernseys and Ayrshires.
"For the average farmer would
suggest, If he has some good native
cows, and wishes to raise both dairy
products and beef, that he use for a
! sire a milk-strain Of Shorthorn, or a
I Red Poll, but from personal choice
would prefer the shorthorn, If it can
be had. -
s cat. the present price of real estate,
it is hardly profitable to keep COWS
for. raising stock exclusively, unless
they are pure bred, and registered
aud your land Ia adapted to grazing
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"In raising stock, three things are
essential: Breed, feed and care, sup
plemented with much common sense.
The young animal should be kept
growing from the start until sold on
the market. For the want Of feed and
care. many young cattle go into the
pasture in the spring. lighter weight
than six months before, in the fall,
which is all wrong. In this case the
feed consumed was lost, being barely
enough to sustain life, to say nothing
of the growth.
do not turn cattle out in the
spring until the grass gets a good
start, for If you do. you will have short
pasturage all summer, and your stock
will make little growth.
when cattle are 2 years old and
past. II you have not the proper con-
venience for feeding them, and wish
to ship Them to be sold as feeders, to
parties farther south and east to be
fed for market in the corn belt, 1t will
add rs cents a 100 to their value Il
their horns are OF.
when the animal reaches the stage
that he gets all the good corn he can
eat, he will probably not care muca
for the stalks, but ne needs a certain
amount of roughage, and my method
is to have some racks in the. yard
with hay or nndl1et to give them q
change of1iet, and usually have some
young stock cattle coming on to con-
sumo the stalks from which the corn
is snapped, 80, that nothing be wasted.
Il consider an acre of corn fodder
about as valuable for young stock as
grain. When you begin with snapped
corn, 1t is we'll to alternate with
ground barley, or other grain, and
little bran with it, as the barley alone
is rather too strong.
I'm this cold climate it is we'll to
begin fattening early in the season,
so as to have them ready for the mar
ket the last of December or January,
and thus save feed. They always
find a ready sale on the market to the
packers, or the extensive feeders be-
low.
"In winter, cattle should be fed in
yards, with sheds for them to run in
and out, and It Is we'll to have heaters