The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-31
CATTLE AND HORSES
ON HAWAIIAN RANCH
Robert Hind, Millionaire, Says
That Animals Neither Desire
Nor Get Water

KANSAS CITY, Jan. Set have
horses on my ranch that do not know
what water is, and will not drink 1t IL
it is brought before them. They have
never tasted water.
ST have good. fat cattle that have
never seen water and would not know
how to act If water touched them. I
have other cattle that 1 have imported
from the United States which have
not tasted q drop Of water since being
| turned out on my cactus and blue
grass pastures.
'"They have lived for years without
water and are as fat as any CRASHED
cattle in the United States. They
make just as good beef as you get in
any restaurant"
| These statements were made in So
Der earnest by Robert Hind, Million
aire sugar planter and ranchman Of
Honolulu.
When water holes go dry on our
own western ranges cattlemen hurry
their stock out of the country. The
price of beef on the hoof goes down
and the price of meat goes up. os
Dry Years Near Panic
owners of cattle and the owner Of
| purebreds in the United States would
not think of buying a $1,000 bull and
putting him on a ranch that had nei.
Their stream, spring nor well on it. He
would die of thirst in less than Q
week
MIR. Hind has bought six valuable
bulls. He will buy several more be-
fore he returns to his island ranch.
And when he does take the animals
back he will turn them loose in a pas.
ture of cactus and blue grass growing
upon volcanic soil in which there is
absolutely no water for drinking pur-
poses. And the animals will thrive
as others of their kind have thrived
which Mr.. Hind bought here a year
ago.
America is letting a lot of unsala-
BILE land lie idle in what are now bar
rem wastes,'' said Mr.. Hind. IF you
would import the great spineless cac-
tus of Hawaii and plant the wastes
with 1t you would soon have fine pas
lures for cattle and pasturage that
makes stock water unnecessary. Think
Of the possibilities in the millions Of
|
in your country.
Cattle Thrive
Eve have imported blue grass frOm
Kentucky and orchard grass from
other parts of the United States, and
our cattle live for a good part of the
year on these grasses without water,
so luxuriantly do they grow and 50
much moisture do they contain. When
it becomes exceedingly dry and the
grasses are not doing well. we turn the
cattle and horses into cactus pastures.
l have kept one lot of seventy-five cat.
tie in twenty-acre pasture of cactus
for three months, and they are doing
well. They put on flesh just as cattle
do in your luXuriant Missouri pas
lures, but my cattle are without water.
1.-THE fruit of the spineless cactus is
much like that of the prickly pear in
America, but is large. We fatten our
pigs, chickens and turkeys on it. Any
domestic animal in Hawaii will eat it,
and it is a great flesh producer"
Mr.. Hind started as sugar planter
and made a fortune. Then he bought
a few thousand acres next to his plan.
tation and imported Herefords, short
horns and Polled Angus cattle from
New Zealand. That was ten years
ago. He now has sold all his cattle
except Herefords and Polled Angus.
He has $500 cattle, 1000 sheep and
large number of horses on his ranch
now. He handles nothing but pure.
| bred stock.