Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-08-21
Scientific PrOduC ion Of Meat
Offers Farmers Splendid
Opportunity
Of Beef MdkeSPure
Breeding Of Stock Most
Valuable


days and everybody will be running
after them.' The above expression
was the sentiment of an old.time cat
tie man, made in the presence Of the
writer but a few days ago. II is
argued that conditions affecting the
production of beef cattle justify the
expectation of an extreme scarcity OF
desirable breeding animals within a
very brief period As has always
been the case under parallel circum.
stances the reduction in cattle stock
has taken a large percentage Of the
more desirable ones and left those
that are hard to sell nd hrder to i'm.
prove. The depletion Of farm stock.
as shown by information privately
obtained by this paper, has been 60.
ing on at a merciless rate. Herds
of pure.bred cattle have succumbed
to the pressure in even greater pro-
portion.
Students Of the beef cattle industry
insist that a turn in the tide Of cattle
affairs is now in sight and beginning
to exert a strengthening influence. In
view of the evident wisdom of this
conclusion, and the tendency of men
to give chase to business of prom
Used popularity, a few words of CO.
ton may not be out of order. If the
enlivening of cattle raising mater.
ializes it will certainly draw into its
meshes many farmers who lack prep
aration and equipment for the bust
ness. It is one thing to have a herd
of cattle and quite another to make
them pay a good percentage of profit
on the investment which they repre-
sent. On the whole, the investment
in all its branches Is no small affair.
After the cattle themselves, it means
barns and sheds sufficient to AFFORD
protection against the extremes Of
summer suns and winter winds, fenc-
es that are effective, lands for per-
manent pastures, and silos or other
means of storing feed.
The equipment Of a cattle farm is
an evolution. 1t represents an invest
ment which will be profitable in no
other manner, and which is adapted
to no other purpose.
But cattle are an economic neces.
sity. They must be raised and fed
on the farm for the good of the farm.
They are the mainstay of the farmer
who hopes to retain the productive
character of his land, who wishes to
improve 1t.
There is no hesitancy about advis-
ing III readers to equip their farms
with such a number of cattle as may
be necessary to maintain a proper
balance. To those whose supply OF
cattle is now lacking this should mean
a gradual increase in numbers, and
an increase which shall also a
betterment of quality. While it is not
advisable to attempt to begin with
an entire herd of animals of pure
breeding, sight should not be lost
Of the wact that ultimately the most
profitable herd Of beef cattle will be
that which is of pure breeding. Spec
ial adaptation to purpose and con-
ditions should receive consideration
rather than numbers. From the view.
point of this article purity Of blood
Of some one Of the beef breeds is
important. If the farm be already
stocked with grades, future better
ment must depend upon the success
sive use Of sires of pure blood and
of the same breed. Best results can
only be obtained through the use or
beef animals of pure breeding DE-
cause only by such animals a the
ideal of beef form and characterizes
be retained. The tendency of the
times is toward the elimination of
all domestic animals of mixed breed
Ing, and the stock yards market re-
ports contain daily proofs Of the wis
dom of doing SO. Perhaps the more
favorable conditions under which cat
tie raising may be taken up are those
on the farm in which there is a TO-
tation calling for about one-third Of
the acreage in pasture and meadow.
Corn ensilage is the most profit
able form of utilizing that plant in
cattle feeding. Painstaking expert
ment has proven that fed in connec-
ton with silage, other grains make
much greater gains than if fed in
any other OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES &
Stockman.
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