Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-01-23
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/ sion by talking moment on the sub
| ject of bronze and grass and quickly
changed to the subject of stock rails
| ing, claiming that the coarse feed
products must be changed into a more
dense and marketable form and claim
ed that the live stock on the farm
should be an efficient machine for
that purpose At this time Prof. w.
B. Richards of the agricultural col
lege was introduced and took up the
subject and continued along that line.
Prof Richards claimed that man
could not successfully run dairy
farm on 800 acres of land. That
most men could not own that amount
of land, even if they wished, and could
not conduct a dairy successfully on it
if they did own it. That no man could
do as much in the business with
large tract of land as with smaller
} one, if he attempted to spread out
lall over it. That for grazing and
other purposes it was all right, but
not for intensified farming or butter
making.
i That if the man owned 100 acres
of land that it was not wise to at
tempt to cultivate more than 80 acres
in grain crops and let the other 80
remain in native wild grass for a.
while at least. And why should
man try to cultivate 100 acres when
he could make more from the 80?
Use the 80 for corn and other grains
and the other 80 for pasture until
such time as part of the land first
plowed could be seeded to tame grass
es and then break up the additional
amount as it could be profitably used.
AS for buildings, use some of the
money that more reckless man
would put into land and biuld on a
small scale at first, but construct the
buildings in such a way that they
could be added to as needed. And
by all means to have barn so con-
structed that it could be kept clean
and in sanitary condition. BY all
. means to observe proper rules or
ventilation. That in this climate ven-
tilation was even more necessary than
in warmer countries.
. That fall and winter dairying was
! more profitable than summer dairy
ing, as there was more time to de
a vote to the work, labor could be the
: more readily obtained, and that calves
! dropped in the fall months would be
. in better condition for the second
winter than the spring calves.
That upon the question of feed for
q draiy cows that perhaps as few really
understood the subject as that of most
all others combined. That each COW
should be fed according. to her ma
> ture and individual needs. It was
o claimed that some dairy men feed
: all the COWS alike in kind and amount
r This, it was asserted, was grave
!. mistake. That cows that took on IA
g easily needed different feed to those
that were inclined to get thin wher
}. giving good flow of milk The COW
4 that was inclined to take on f1es1
r readily should be fed on a kind O
1. food that was rich in proteins, will,
her sister of the opposite natur,
n should have those that were equal,
" rich in the carbohydrates.
al After careful discussion of tn
T. feed question in it's various ramif
Of cations, the speaker gave the follow
r. ing as suitable rations to feed i
North Dakota: Twenty pounds Q
IL prairie hay, ten pounds corn stovel
TO seven pounds speltz, four pounds bra
ut or six pounds barley or macaron
it. wheat, instead of speItz thirt
le pounds Of silage, ten pounds of pratt
re lie hay, six pounds bran, two pound
Id shorts. Twenty pounds corn stove
te ten pounds hay, six pounds bran an
Id three pounds spelt, oats or barley"
at At the conclusion of the talk b
r. Prof. Richards, Mr.. Gregg took up til
re subject of the selection of the dair
it cow and continued upon the lines
Is, his previous talk in regard to the Of
nj servation of natural laws and of caus
he and effect. He spoke of, to him a ne
nj discovery and the happiness that
Sc gave him, and his explanation, If n,
il discovery was, to say the least,
IT. revelation to many of his hearers an
sy the address was one that should /
printed and distributed all over ever
ed country interested in dairying.
til Then, President Worst of the ag1
ng cultural college was introduced an
th- after very pleasant greeting by th
,st audience, at once launched into b.
RI subject and delivered mastery Al
dress, one which will not permit I
differentiation and yet give CORE,
ed idea of its merit. But newspapers al
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