The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-08-21
FEED CATTLE in
THE NORTHWEST
MINNESOTA is GETTING BUSY TO
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE
SHORTAGE IN FEED CAUSED
BY DRouTH-NoRTH DAKOTA
SHOULD FOLLOW SUIT.

SHOULD FOLLOW SUIT.
Minnesota and South Dakota are
getting busy on scheme that promis-
es to bring big returns to those states.
It Is to bring cattle from the drouth-
stricken districts of Missouri. Kansas
and Oklahoma and feed them on grass
in those states this fall.
There has been some talk in Fargo
OF inaugurating such a campaign in
this state. The recent rains over the
Estate insure good fall pasturage and
there will be a couple of months Of
| rank growth sufficient to feed thous-
| ands of cattle and fatten them for
market. -. :
The way this proposition is being
taken UP in Minnesota is explained in
the following from The Minneapolis
journal OF yesterday: ...
Farmers and rural bankers of Min;
nesota have asked the Minnea polls
banks for 100000 to buy cattle from
the drouth stricken Kansas, Oklahoma
and Missouri farms and put them in
Minnesota grass fields. MINNEAPOLIS
i bankers will make the loans, now or at
such time as conditions warrant. Min
| nesota will have more feeding cattle
on her farms this fall than ever be-
| DdSIuTa2e
conditions continue
Experienced Minnesota stockmen are
making ready to take advantage Of the
opportunity that may present itself
Without concerted action, or the action
or any organization or group of men
but as result of individual interest
minnesota will take thousands of feed
er cattle, If the predicted rush to mar
ket from the dry country approaches
later the proportions that now seem
probable
The Security and First National
banks had loan applications Yesterday
and Vice Pres. Perry Harrison of the
Security said one borrower asked for
sIo,oo0 with which to buy young stock
Ine northwestern was receiving ap-
plcat1ons for loans until late yesterday
at which time a southern Minnesota,
customer was on the long distance
| telephone.
THE interest in the proposition is
very great" Mr.. Harrison said, "and
there are increasing applications for
such loans"
Feeder Proposition Grows.
A. D. La Due, president of the First
National bank of Luverne. and also a
farmer on a large scale, conferred with
wee Pres. c. T. Jaffray of the First
National bank, over the proposition to
| increase the future Importance of Min
nesota as feeder state in line with
the suggestion made MONDAY hv
George D. Dayton. Recent rains have
checked the cattle movement, Mr.. La
| Due found.
Mr.. La Due found that in Kansas
city, Omaha and Sioux City there were
no prices ruling for feeder stock that
We're sufficiently low to warrant huv-
ing for transportation to Minnesota /"
Mr.. Jaffray said. But the future of
the movement will depend upon the
| extent to which pasturage has heen
saved by the rains. Feeder business
carried on by experienced men Is nrof-
itaole. There is no doubt that if chean
| immature cattle come upon the sonth' '
west markets in quantity. as seomnd
certain would be the case when tha
drouth was at it's worst there v-ouId
be opportunity for Minnesota to ntiIiza
her good spasturage. ''ss- - =
Freight Rates Quoted,
Freight rates from Kansas and OH
iahoma points to stations in West Cen
tral Minnesota Development associa =
ton or Southern Minnesota Develon.
ment association territory figure an
average cost Of $3.50 to $3.50 q head
TOT bringing up 900-pound beef, To
get them to the cut-over lands IF
northern Minnesota would cost about
)! head more for carloads containing
ABOUT twenty-five head each.
l. without a doubt. the sectional de-
Velopment associations will find 1t nos
slole to utilize the situation to the ad :
vantage of the state" said e, w. Deck
er, who was president of the commit
tee of bankers that met in Minneannlie
Marcn to talk over the cattle supply
! situation. -.
Individual effort is going to do the
WORK, l believe" he continued. "The
bankers aroused an interest in the
meat supply situation, that, as long
ago as March, looked bad and now
that there has been dry period in the
,iaIl,1 southWest' we can readily see how
quickly the supply can be affected and
now difficult 1t is to build up again.
Minnesota will eventually come to
| have. many more cattle on her farms
believe, but it will come about gradu-
ally. The movement now going on to
bring UP Kansas and Oklahoma cattle
for feeding is the starter"
Crisis Is Near
BY the time the ninety two bankers
who constitute the enlarged agricuI-
tural and development committee of
the Minnesota Bankers association get
together on the state fair grounds.
Tuesday, Sept. 2, matters in the south
west will have so shaped themselves,
Joseph Chapman declared, that it will
be possible more definitely to know
what to expect In the way Of offerings
of feeders.
ut will not be too late, by any
means" Mr.. Chapman said. There
will be representatives from every
county, and a chairman for every
congressional district, and the main
purpose. will be the taking up of mat
ters relating to the agricultural prog
ress of Minnesota. AS the meat sup
ply problem is the live one right now,
we will no doubt canvass thoroughly
the southwest supply situation.
Already farmers are beginning to
ask country banks to lend money for
cattle purchases. and the publicity that
has been given the situation may be
the means of adding enormously to the
wealth of the state. Conditions in the
southwest markets may vary from
time to tine but as often as there are
days when immature cattle go at sac
rifices, Minnesota men with pasttlrage
will be there, ready to take the stock"
Just say Morrelrs Dakota Pride"
to your grocer or market man, when
YOU are next buying ham or bacon.
Fargo branch. sos First avenue north.