Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-11-23
STOCK ON DRY FARMS
Crops Are Made More Sure and Also
More Productive.

| hNe SUCK because feed crops are more
sure and productive and at the same
/ time greatly reduce the cost OF mar
keting the products of the farm. In
my farming and stock raising opera
| tons, ! had for some years access to
! Tree range, but the country in my i'm
| mediate vicinity was finally all settled
upon. and naturally | had to conhne
| myself to my own farm in my stock
raising operations, writes w. +. Gard
ner, in the Denver Field and Farm
After having the free range to myself
for so long |, like many others in the
west, thought | had been put out OF
busintss by the new settlers, but how
easy for fellow to adjust himself
to conditions, if he will get his head
to work. After a good many years
experience | find that there is more
money in keeping one numbered had of
better stock, better fed and cared for,
with a small per cent of loss, than
there was in keeping the same number
on the open range; and the more or
ganic matter | have put into my soil
the more capable it is for holding
moisture and the less it will suffer
when drouth comes. We of the west
are ma position to raise live stock
more cheaply than the farmers in the
more humid sections OF the country
Al. Al. 4.
mate are peculiarly adapted to the
raising of that most wonderful forage
plant, alfalfa, a nitrogen gatherer and
an enricher OF the soil, subsoiler and,
when fed with corn, balanced ration.
Alfalfa is king in the west and goes
hand in hand with live stock. In many
sections daring is rapidly gaining on
horticulture and is bringing in more
money than any other industry. The
dairymen are considering the fertility
of their soil, the greatest asset remain
ing to the American people. Probably
the best reasons Tor western farmers
going into the dairy business is the
fact that people i'll new country must
that people in a new country must ac
accept a system of farming that will
bring quick returns in actual cash. The
stock business will do this quicker
than horticulture, especially dairying,
because it takes from five to seven
years to bring an orchard into bear
ing To my mind, the best farmer and
the one who will certainly succeed, is
he who keeps live stock. When the
horticulturist in the near future is buy
ing high--priced fertilizer to raise the
same fruit in quantity and quality
that he raised when the soil was virgin
the stock mans farm will be as fertile
and more productive than when he
first turned the sod as Nature left it. |
The man who goes into a new and un- !
tried counry. builds home and opens
up new farm and by intelligence and !
close attention to busiiess succeeds |
in converting that piece of wild land |
into a valuable property is not only a
man, Dui has oipN u hihoNii ]
to be a benefactor of his race and il |
will be many years in this country be |
fore the life work of such man will !
be given the recognition it so justly |
deserves. Cattle raising is profitable
even during the present times OF high |
priced land, high-priced help and high
nr,~aI faa1 Cf tho fnr ar
must look after and properly care for
his livestock in the best possible man
ner. The raising of stock works nicely
with other farm operations and a good |
profit can be made if the animals are
fed in the proper way-there is so
much good fed that would actually be
wasted on the farm if live stock were
not kept | don OF give my stock any
high priced feed and yet always aim
to keep them thrifty. plan to feed
economically. There is some feed in
wheat straw and oat straw is good
and the stock is converting it all into |
fertility to be added to the land Many
toSiNdi lNaNoio Nul w SiNNh why iiiN
dry-farmer should keep live stock The
first essential in dry farming is an
ample supply of moisture in the soil
and the keeping of live stock on the |
farm will add to its water carrying |
because the more live stock |
kept on the farm the more manure
and organic matter will the farmer
have to incorporate into the soil. 1t
is an assured fact that the more hui
mus the soil contains the more mois-
ture will it hold The more live stock
the farmer keeps, the greater the in
ducement to raise a larger acreage of
forage and cultivated crops of which
corn would probably be the main one
The farmer would rotate and my own
experience in farming twenty-seven