The daily Alaskan., 1912-04-02


 "Thus, 1 saw q ready market fol fresh meat at good prices and foi cash. But how to supply thaI market became the uppermost ques ton in my mind. set about tC find a practicable answer, haJ plenty of land, which means fodder; plenty of standing dry timber, whiet means unlimited warm shelter; ana unlimited good water, right at my hands. These three essentials ought 10 produce meat, I thought, and began to study the question.
 'T soon found out that I was very far from being pioneer ir that movement; that the govern meuts of the United states, Canada Norway, Sweden and Denmark have all experimanted on that proposition and made it work proritably also learned, much to my surprise that the climates in these various countries, where cattle and hos raising is now an accepted industry is something similar to our own. and that grasses and fuels are much scarcer there than they are here II decided to try. and have been trying ever since. l have now on hand twenty-nine head of cattle and ten head of hogs. More pigs and calves naturally coming before the spring. My method of winterine the stock. with some few minor changes, which this locality requires is practically the same as worked out by various experiments all over the world.
 The main feed is enSilage. There is nothing new or startling about ensilage. In essence it is nothing more or less than the good old German sauerTaut. am better situated for putting up ensilage than is any other Catse raiser on the Outside. The Slough grass through out the interior of Alaska is very rich. as any one who has traveled up and down our rivers must have noticed.
 "I worked out a system which is very inexpensive. go up Birch creek. and when come to a good looking slough. nov Uown the grass. cut down dry timbers, pin the timbers into small raGts. having carrying capacity Of about one ton each. lead the greer grass on the rafts and float them down the stream to a boom ll front of my place. juss as you see logs floating down to your sawmills. then put the green grass in an airtight building, sprinkle salt be, tween layers of srass. the weight gf the grass does jts own packing, and round the =ra- sdoueo my barn is built where tho ca.Ia winter and where keep fire during the cold winter sneH-. rho timrers from the ras-s supply my building logs and fuel far the winter. Iu .nr summer. for almost five months. '.a cattle graZo in the 0vaU
 "This year mafc a mistake in not putting up enough ons.lage, depending too much on dry hay. The cattle are Very fond of the easllage. almost. seemingly. begging for it., and do not do as well on hay as I expected they would. Nat rany I shall try to correct that mistake next year. There are lots of other details which must be learned from year to year. but these are too insignificant that cattle raising is unlike wheat raising. You cannot cut it down all in one year and produce a new crop next year. You must first develop a producing herd before ycu dare ap. ply the butchers knife.
 The market is unlimited. You can drive your stock to the Circle and Fairbanks mines during the summer months without losing q pound of flesh and kill the cattle as they are needed. Fresh pigs and cattle can Ge shipped during the winter months to Fairbanks and there find a ready market. The problem of raising stock in the In terior profitably. while not yet com plctely solved, seems to me to be on fair way of getting settled, and soon. We will be raising our own meat as We dc now our own vege, tables"