Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-01-11

IL NAN MNAA AIAAA#aAHHH& 49,
rimental schools that pure bred stock
be raised on less feed with more
pounds and a higher price than mon
grel breed. The Nebraskn Agrieul-
ture Village says by actual exPen-
ment this has been proven true, Place
your score card on any animal On
your farm, and st every point a.
which that animal is up TO grade II
will bring its corresponding results
at the market Of the land. II il e
true that a hog viii mature earlier
If pure bred and bring more money
in the pork barrel land It IS certain
ly true) then il follows that the same
is true Of any lines Of blood The
mar who can make two blades Of
gras grow where one formerly
grew. is a benefactor Of the rzee.
The mar who can take the daylight
from beneath a hog and put it over
its back made one great step in the
right way.
A few years ago the single rose
Of the prairie grew wild upon the far
stretched hills, but today by breed
ing and cultivation is the double rose
Of your garden and househald. The
little, knotty, stringy potato Of a
few years ago, is now the large,
mealy, luscious potato Of u table
How did it Gomez" you ask By
cultivation.
The pure bred stock question Is z
Of great scientific importance today.
We must raise the best Of everything
save the best is not good enough for
up to date American farmer We
think man can do most anything
He snatched the lightning from the
clouds and harnessed it to the earth
energized the human body with It,
and startled the world with his pow
erful and wonderful discoveries, and
yet with all his skill and the fiat Of
Almighty God, can't create another
acre of land. Our landed estates vii
ever remain the same, but our pop
ulation keeps on increasing by the
millionsi We are asking how we
are to feed this increasing population.
The answer can only be by increasing
the output. To make two Bushels Of
corn grow where one formerly grew;
TO raise a breed Of stock that will
carry more pounds Of better meat
and bring a higher price in the mar
ket; horses large enough to draw
a heavier cargo of freight and a
larger pillow than ever before at the
same cost Of production Our millions
must be fed, and We must do it by in
%creasing the output on every acre Of
land we farm. We are coming up
facing the future now with a shortage
in all the necessities of life until, with
prices soaring skyward all the while,
we are wondering how we are to
solve this problem, and our only an
swer is to increase the output and
raise more and better stock. All
honor to the men who are willing to
spend and to be spent to develop
the best COW the best buull - the
best hog.
Pure Bred Shorthorn Cattle.
One can only comprehend the vast
ness Of the cattle business by visit
ing some Of our great markets Of our
naion. By going through the stock
yards Of Chicago, Kansas City, St.
Louis and Omaha where in these mar
kets more than a million dollars
change hands daily, car you compre-
bend what this enterprise means.
On single day in Chicago, there
has been known to be over a million
dollars change hands on cattle alone.
When we think of a population Of
more than ninety millions of people
to be fed in America with the amount
increasing at the rate of 1000 per
day, we can get a faint comprehension
Of the demand for meat. 1t has been
stated that every time Uncle Sam
spreads his breakfast table, more
than 600 new plates must go down;
and this is not by birth-rate alone,
but by the foreigners being dumped
upon our shores and more than six
sevenths Of them consumers. The nee
essity Of more and better stock be-
gins to appeal to our minds, and we
can place the COW at the head Of the
list as the best friend of man.
It was her sons that drew the prai-
rie schooner into the far west; that
broke the first soil that has made the
pleasant homes and the fertile fields
that we o possess. Should the
COW be removed from this great ma
ton Of ours, fifty per cent of thee
freight trains that now pillow the con-
tinent from ocean to ocean would
have TO be s~ide-tracked.
If today, as you are about to sit
down to your monday meal, / should
step up, remove what the COW places
there, | would first take away the
cup Of milk that waits the baby's
plate. ! would remove the custard
pie, the butter, the cream cheese the
delicious steak, the steaming roast
and leave you to a meal Of sweet DO
tatoes been pickles and tooth picks.
There is not a particle Of her that
is not utilized for the benefit of
mankind, from the end Of her tail.
her horns are used to comb our hair.
her skin to clothe our feet, her hair
is used TO stick plaster Of our walls.
her hoofs make glue, and her tail
makes soup.
Oh, you, who abus the COW. treat
her kindly; for all day long she gath