The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-01
USE OF HAND
CO.'S HAY CROP
Big Money for the Farmer In
Raising horses and Cattle

Editor Press:--l had the pleasur,
Of riding recently with two friend!
from Washington south through
range sixty-six as far as the Ale,
Ross farm and then southwest
Crops were fine. both wheat ano
corn and oats and some rye. Grass
was found in abundance particular.
ly southwest of the Ross farm.
Who stops to think about grass!
This is Natures great crop. II
springs UP in April and May to greet
the farmer and his hungry animals.
1t requires neither seeding or cult.
walton. Each animal can take his
own mo Aing machine with him. con.
verting this grass into beef and but.
ter for the benefit of the farmer.
But we are not much better off with
all this grass if we don't have some
thing to eat it. 1t only grows up in
the spring to be cut down by the
frost in the fall. There are thou
sands in the cities unable to buy
beef and right in vestern Bates and
Spring Lake Townships are acres and
acres of grass with hardly a hoof to
be found there. 1t may be that
some people think that people will
stop eating beef. Never if they can
get it. They tried that in Kansas a
year ago. They organized a society
to boycott the farmer by not eating
meat. The organization only lasted
two weeks. The head of the society
was found red-handed in a restau.
rant eating a juicy steak. He said
he could hold out no longer.
The most important to man of all
the domestic animals is the horse.
No where on earth car better horses
be grown than in Hand County,
sound of wind, strong limbs, fine
action, heavy, healthy. animals.
Farmers of Pennsylvania ard Ohio
have found this out and have shipped
out many of our best horses. Some
one asks if the price of horses will
stay up. 1t makes no difference
for we can raise horses here on these
nutritious grasses better than they
can be raised any place in the world
mentioned my friend. Alex Ross
don't know Of any man who has
shown more faith and done more
work to develop the horse industry
in this county than this man. | saw
on his farm a fine large shire stallion
and two fine shire mares that he
had brought from England. Think
of a farmer in our country, not a
horse Spectator, buying horses in
England, paying the freight across
the Atlantic Ocean and half way a.
cross this continent. We should be
proud of such a man and farmers
should go and look at his horses anc
colts. They are not fattened and
pampered for show as Mr. Ross has
no time &c take them TO the State
Fair. These imported horses were
on the hay mower.
Large horses are in demand al
over the world. on the farms and ir
the cities We all know how the big
horse sells over and above the little
one. The last few hundred pounds
on the weight of the horse seems tc
count for the most money. The one
thousand pound horse sells for one
hundred dollars or less, but the
fourteen hundred pound horse sells
for two hundred dollars. How are
we to get the last few hundred
pounds? 1t is simple enough. The
law of heredity is older than the
Missouri River. Like produces like
II we want Plymouth Rock chick.
ems we must set Plymouth Rock
eggs. If we want big horses we
must breed big horses and then take
care of them. The two hundred
dollar horse in Hand County is an.
other name for that much Hand
County grass wrapped in horse hide.
Is there any easier way to make
money? Are we asleep? If not lei
US utilize this grass-go to bailing
hay in horse hide and go to selling
the product for $780, 90 per bale.
&c. H. Carroll