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New Ulm. MINI,
/. You may think
II am harping on the same thing ! did
few weeks ago with slight variation;
but after steadily reading the daily
reports of stock arrivals at the South
st. Paul stockyards, where the receipts
of beef cattle have lately been less
than the receipts of calves, I cannot
resist the temptation to make some
comment. The past week the receipts
of calves have run up to 700 Sand 800
per day. This, to me, appears to be
much too great "a slaughter Of the
innocents".
For many years have lamented
the marketing Of many calves at New
Ulm and elsewhere, for it seemed too
great sacrifice Of what In few
years would have increased the sup
ply of beef, had the calves been raised
to wo and three years old and then
fattened. OF course know what far
mers have said to me and what they
will say when they read this for
calves at five weeks old bring more
ready cash on what they have cost,
perhaps than at any other age. But
that is to my mind too short sighted
a view, when one considers the profit
at late and present prices of raising
a steer to two and three years old,
when we'll kept, and then turning it
into beef. The greatest profit, all
known, too is in the high grade animal,
which is easily bred and costs no more
TO feed than does scrub. But, the
average farmer - not all - will say
pasture is too scarce on the average
sized farm to do this. This may be
true to a limited extent, but surely
not on the farm that has been run
downby too much wheat raising - or,
rather, too much acreage given to
raising wheat with low average
yield, even at present high prices. A
large part of the wheat acreage turn
ed into pasture of tame grasses, and
alternated every few years, would
raise the fertility of the farm so that
the smaller acreage in wheat would
produce more than had been raised
on the larger acreage. Then the
acreage now given to barley and rye
could be cut down without loss OF
food for man or beast, and given to
corn for winter feed for cattle. Look
where you will for any past period
and you will find that the farmer who
fattened cattle from year to year has
prospered more than his neighbors
who have depended upon raising grain.
This is also true of the farmer who
has raised corn and hogs. know and
so does the reader that every farmer
cannot jump into this change in an
instant, and that the farmer who has
a large herd of COWS for dairying can
not raise all his calves, but he can
raise at least a part of those that now
go to slaughter.
Looking at this in a larger sense.
think of what a large increase in beef
animals would do for mankind, without
reducing to an appreciable degree the
profit of the farmer in his increased
herds. l will only add, lest l make
this too long, that any high or average
grade steer, if he has been well kept,
can be brought to a good average
weight at two or two and half years
old and no, animal is profitable II
poorly kept and stunted. Now, in con-
clusion, if my space is not already ex-
ceeded, want to commend council
men Retzlaff and Ruemke for their
vote against the council giving or
pledging $500 from city treasury for
the Home Coming or Sioux Mas
sacre 5Oth anniversary celebration. Not
that the celebration will not be a
worthy one, but. because it would be
using public money raised by taxation
wrongfully. It is high time to call a
strong halt on Legislatures and city
councils voting the peoples money for
this or that object without warrant
of law, and every such attempt should
be promptly blocked and the attempt
ed robbery - for it is nothing less -
should be exposed.