Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1916-03-02

count ng the ,nterest. or a total
of S7,S14.15. No wonder the IArm-
ers are porr and South Dakota
| and Iowa losing population right
along.
When the Dairy Special tour
ed the sate two or three years
ago, they had one of these hor-
ribDe examples on exhibition. She
Cooke d to me like "a pretty good
cow, but that only proves how lit
| tie ] know about it. I'd like to
| have a hundred like her and two
OF Riis Dill ms roam Shorthorn
bulls and all my debts paid. I'd
move out next to a forest reserve
and live happily ever after.
The trouble Wi h all this free
advice IS that it comes from men
who assume at the outset that all
we want 20 milk or make butter
or seN butterfat and kick on the
test we get. Some of them
couldn't tell to save their lives
which side of COW to approach
at milking time. When We all
have sir IS and neiehbors and tele-
phores and ned barns and good
hired men who like to work four
teen hours a day and milk four
teen cows fcr $14.OO month-we
won't care then who farms the
aaeftus Patches.
Wanteti-Haatly, Rustling Cows.
It's all a questd N of adoption
20 the environment.
The COW that Knows INV to
take care of herself unaided-
who knows her own range and
stays there, who doesn't get stuck
n the mud nor hump her back
and shut her eyes and travel 40
miles in single blizzard to c1m-
init sufc ide by going over the Bad
Land Wall or by drownin9 her
self in a slough, and m recover
raises calf WI NTH 90 at wean4
ing time every year-say, there
are great stretches of unOccup pied
country in the Dakota Farmer EN-
pire where fer all practical our
poses under the present condit6ons
and in this year of grace 1915.
such a G w is worth a carload of
fA. r. o. beaufdes.
Someore has said there are
shree kind 81 lies: Lies: 3 MEG
and aJtis'i i,s
Now you fellows who nike to
prove III things by Figures, here S
a probl m in live sock husbamdry
for you: If a man hives in a
country where hay and hired help
are always poor, scarce and high,
and gets caught Shi Mt of feed som
long snowy winter when the raj
roaes quit RUNNING and hay is
not to he had at any pnice will a
$40 heifer that eats $50 worth
of feed to save her life be worth
$4,000 in the spring-or nothing
And If am ther heifer the same
age, only a different breed and a
different education that brows as
on sage brush and cottonwoods,
but mes through in better shape
than the housed-up daughter OF
ribbon winne ers, what is she worth ?
l realize that there is a place
for dairy herds and milking ma
chimes and red barns with steam
he AT and running water and tub
erculosis germs by the billion, but
the place 10 not near Bixby or Pow
derviIe or Mayoworth. And you
poor deluded ranchers near these
towns and some hundreds of 9TH
eB that might mention, just
keep right on raising the same
kind OF q rubs you have been rails
ing since the days before the coun.
try was surveyed and prepare al
ways for a hard winter, just like
the wisest OF you have always
done. and you can't go far wrong
Conditions are changing and We
want them to change. but it takes
good many years to change the
Bad Lands into a good farming
aOuntry.
A Tall Hold.
In the year of 1911. when the
corn crop came up a perfect stand
in August dn Perkins county, be-
cause UP to that time the soil
was a. dry as en- ash heap and
not even the Russian thistles woul
sprout when the gumbo country
In Harding Butte and Stanley was
as black a. . plowed 6ieh or a
prairie that had been burned with
nre-3here was . homesteader on
Grand river who had q scrub COW