The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1915-11-18
DL.k0TA is FAST
EEC. Ming A Neat AS
WILL AS WHAT State

At no distant day North Dakota
will become noted Tor the production
of meat as well as for the produc-
ton of wheat.
The live stock industry in the state
is leaping forward each year at q
rate that will oon put it on an equal
footing with the greatest stock rails
ing communities of the country.
In 1914 the number of cattle fed in
North Dakota for slar ghtcring pur.
poses was 589.6S8. In 1915 the mum.
Der is 762.l67 The increase for n
year is l72,499.
N 1914 the number of hogs fed in
North Dakota was 459.9S2 In 1915
the number is 2. 914, an increase in
or" year Of 257,952.
The number of sheep fed in North
Dakota in 1914 was s3,OS9. In 1915
1t vas 10S,856. an increase of 25.767
in me year.
And North Dakota live stock
shipped to the Strengthening centers
bring the highest market prices in al;
cases. No better meat can be pro.
drced anywhere in the world.
But comparatively little feeding of
live stock has been done in North
DAKOTA in the past s)ut that is owing
% the undivided attention that has
been given to the growing of wheat
to the exclusion Of almost everything
else. However the farmers are now
awake to the possibilities in this line.
and the opportunity Is being grasped
18th a ~thoroughness that can have but
one outcome. success.
The fact. that the farmers of North
Dakota can make nor money than
those of the corn belt states In grow.
ing live stock and live stock products
is easy Of demonstration. The corn
ke't has three advantages over North
Dakota in such production. 1t a
""Cw corn per acre. 1t has het-
ter and more prolonged raeS'ring in
the autumn season, and it is nearer
to the markets that consume the fin.
lshed product.
While the corr belt has the advan.
800" '" lll6 e. SoIH u q wv
advantage on fodder corn the adj
vantage in this product lying with
North Eakcta. The fodder corn grown
to~e is finer and nor leafy in ~
growth and so will be more com.
'~+o'v consumed h" the stock There
is no rart Of North Dakota in which
his fodder 80 cannot he grown
TIE advantage that the corn belt
"os in it's autumn nastures Of its moist
seasons tends to shorten the period OF
Feeding in the stall or feed lot. In
North Dakota the feeding reriod sets
- ear''er on account Of the usually
1rv weather after harvest which does
not tend to produce abundant pastur
,~n pnt to Offset this more land ia
called for to produce a given Increase
when the land is gra7ed than when
God ia grown on It and carried TO
he stock. The comparative cheap
e 8 of these two methods depends
argely on the cost of conveying the
,'ood to the stock when 1t is not fed
~ the land.
The advantage which the farmers
II the corn belt have in their prox-
nifty to the markets is in a large
neasure Offset by the greater prox.
nifty Of tt> farmers of North Dakota
% the original supply of feeders that
8. to the stock grown on the western
'anges.
North Dakota's advantages over the
''armers OF the corr belt NAV be enum'
Grated as follows: First. in the lower
prices Of their lands: second. in the
better crops II coarse grains which
hey may grow: third. In the produc.
lion of fax: fourth. In the production
" field peas: nth, In the production
u ueIQ roots.