The Idaho Republican., 1915-10-01
ALEX YOUNIE SAYS
RAISE MORE HOGS
and CATTLE

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Alexander Younie, president of the
First National bank of Blackfoot and
part owner of some other banks and
owner of much city and rural prop
erty here, was interviewed in his pri-
vate office at the bank this week, and
asked to give his observations as to
what is most needed to make farm
ing more generally profitable in this
section. In view of Mr.. Younie's sue
cessful career and his wide scope Of
observations by travelling all over the
| United States and much of Canada,
we felt pretty sure of getting some
good advice, and we were not dis
appointed. Mr., Younie replied.
What MIR. Younie Thinks
oh, there are so many things in
which people might improve here in
this part of the country, it might
seem like finding fault il expressed
myself freely about it. TO answer
your inquiry briefly, the farmers
should raise more cattle and hogs on
their farms, and should milk more
cows. Producing meats. and dairy
lproducts, something that will enable
them to feed up their grains and
grasses right at home, and have
something coming in every month in
| the year is what they must come to
before they will have money like. they
ought to. In order to do that they
must provide feed for these animals
in different way from what they
are doing. They should build silos
and in that way provide green succul-
ent feed for the animals and plenty
of it, You can't feed COW dry hay
all winter and turn her into scant
pasture all summer and expect her
to do her part in profitable dairy
ing"
1T takes two acres of pasture to
keep a cow, and much more can be
raised on the same ground if you
will keep the COW off of 1t and raise
some form of green feed and preserve
lit by placing it in the silo Where
this practice has been tried 1t has
generally been adopted, and 1t has
furnished means of keeping up the
dairy to profitable production in all
seasons. People here ought to have
silos and then they ought to raise
some grain and grind or chop it; they
ought to raise a variety of crops, in
cluding mangels and other vegetables
to mix with the grain and silage, and
keep all the animals fed up to their
highest capacity"
"a good many people here as else
where do not want to do chores and
milk COWS and take care of calves.
and they think they would rather
live in hard circumstances than to
do these things. remember men
back in Iowa who felt that way about
Fit, and during the panic of '93 they
got so hard up they could not borrow
nor go in debt any more and they
had to milk cows temporarily or
quit eating, and of course they milk
ed. They found there was money in
| 1t, and some of these conspicuous
examples went in for dairying for
all they could and became wealthy"
Back there they do not raise so
much feed on an acre as we do here;
there are SO many years when the
fcrop is hurt by drouth or too much
rain, and then they have to unload
their stock at sacrifice. Here we
always know just about what we can
raise, and a man can build up his
herd accordingly. If were young
man I would not work in town.
would get me piece of land how
ever small, and would raise every
thing I could on 1t, including cows.
Il would feed up all my produce to
the stock, would conserve the fer
tilizers, would be busy all the year
Earound with my own work, would
never be idle day II I could help
1t, and l would succeed. I see men
doing it on every hand, and the
Others could If they would. / only
wish we could get men to see how
much better this plan is than the
way SO many Of them are doing"
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