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Title: Breeder and sportsman
Identifier: breedersportsma471905sanf (find matches)
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: Horses
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : (s. n. )
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12 ®*w f$xeci>ev ani> ^povisntan \_3VLY 15. 1906 The Scrub Must Go. The Stod-mun and Farmer for nearly a quarter of a . entury has been trying to tell its readers the advantages to be gained by breeding op their live clock. There was a time when the margin between the price of good cattle and scrubB was not ao great as now. There are yet some ' stock and uBe only the best femaleB and pure bred males for breeding purposes. It pays to do so now, and each succeeding year it will pay bigger. The dogy has had bis day. The Swine Industry. One of the great industries of our country and the one that a very large ranchmen, we are ashamed to say, who (maj,irjty of the farmers are more inter, argue against the use of improved blood. We are pleased to say, however, that these are a small minority, and their kind are becoming fewer and fewer each year. We doubt even now if one of these mossbacks, although he might so advise, would himself stock hiB ranee with a bunch of longhorned scrub cows and scrub bulls. Stockmen are in the business to make . money, and they must produce that which the market demands. Common stuff is not wanted now by anybody. At leaBt the big packers, or little ones either, do not want scrub stuff, as the market showB the demand ib for cattle of improved breeding and in good condition. While the market is bad enough still a fair class of stuff has brought fair priceB, and always will. The other kind is hardly wanted at all. Texas has made great strides in the improvement of her catt^ but this work is hardly yet begun. Better and better, and still better cattle must be eeted in than any other, and the one that brings in more money frequently to pay taxes, store bills and doctor bills, ib the swine. Truly the bog is the gentleman that roots the mortgage off the farm. Kuowing the great importance of this line of farmers' work is the motive that in- duces me to present a few thoughts that may be beneficial to some brother farmer. If there is any one claBB of people that deserve the best of everything I believe that class is the toilers of the soil, the ones that feed the world. This brings me to speak of one of the good things that every farmer should have; that is a herd of well bred hogs. The day of the hazle splitter is past, when it took twelve to twenty-four months to mature them, and fit them for market, and if one at that age weighed 250 or 300 poundB, his owner thought he had a whopper. In starting in the business a man Bhould be very careful in the selection of his the slogan. Speaking along these lines foundation stock. The first thing for him the Drovers Journal in a late issue said: Stockmen who have been on the Kan- sas City market the past few days have had an object lesson in the importance of growing high grade cattle that ought to give a stimuluB to the grading up of the herds of the southwest country. While all kinds of cattle have been declining and thin stock was a drug on the market buyers from the corn belt states were scouring the yards for high grade Btock Bteers, and many of them had to be satis- fied with something less to their liking or go home empty handed. There were plenty of cattle in the pens and owners were anions to sell them at prices prac- tically of the buyer's own making, but the quality was not right. Cattle are very much like potatoes in one respect. When prices are high any kind will sell, but the cheaper they get the more par- ticular purchasers are as to quality. Dogy steers are cheap because nobody wantB tnem, and nobody wants them be- cause they are cheapâcheap in quality as well aB in price. Dogy steers never make market top- pers, and still, as a rule, it costs more to put one hundred pounds of gain on them than it does on high grade steera. The high grade steer has a better frame on which to put flesh, has more stretch to him, bas a better constitution, iB a better feeder and yields more pounds gain to the DuBhel of grain than the dugy. Some times it pays to feed dogies, justaB it pays sometimes to raise email potatoesâif you can't raiBe large on*>B. If potatoes are BCarce and consequently high the frugal housewife will be content to prepare the little ones for the table notwithstanding the extra labor and patience required. When beef steers are high, packers will buy dogies and pay good prices for them. In the fall of 1903 several feeders took dogy steers to their feed lots from the Kansas City market, buying them at very low prices. In the early summer of 1904 all kinds of beef steers were high and these dogies, if fat, commanded good prices and showed good profits for the feeders. Right now all kinds of beef steers are low and the best are preferred by the killers,because they are relatively cheaper than the doggies. If the packers want cheap beef now they buy high grade steers, because there is a high per cent of kill to them. This is the case nine times out of ten. Observing feederB see this, and that is why they want the high grade Btockers and feeders and willing to pay the prices for them. The moral is plain as day. It is that it behooves stockmen to cull out their pennyroyal breeding hybridizing. We can well imagine hie surprise when he saw the long eared colt browsing among the cacti and sage brush in the wilderness and discovered that it was neither like its sire nor like the broncho which he owned as its dam. Hybridizing fell under the ban of the Mosaic law, but ao respectable had the mule become that it seems to have been the favorite animal of the princes of the blood, for Abs lorn on that fatal day when his army waB defeated in the trans- Jordanic country attempted to flee away on a mule. Possibly the princes were trying to dodee the law that they shouid net multiply horBeB to themselveB by do- ing what Beemed the next beBt thing, ualng mules as their favorite chargers, an ancient example of keeping the letter of tbe law while violating its spiritânot un- common even among very highly respect- able people in later times. Therefore do not despise the mule, but consider him, and consider him wisely, and consider alBo whether it is not quite as profitable in certain sections of the country to grow mules as horses. to do is to decide what breed he would rather handle, and there are many good ones. The Berkshire, Duroe-Jersey, Chester Whites, Poland-Chinas, Tam- worth and Thin Eine are all popular breeds and have their admirers. I be- lieve this is as it should be, as it gets up a spirit of competition and the different breeders strive to excel in bringing their herds to the highest point of excellence. I believe this idea of difference of opinion being right was fully demonstrated when the preacher said: "If we were all of the same opinion, then every man would want my wife Sallie." Just then one of the men spoke up andBaid: "YeB, and before God, if they were all of my opinion nobody would want her,"âand so it goes. I shall now Bpeak of the general make- up of the future brood sow. She should have a short head, wide between the eyea and a good, plump eye, a motherly look, ears not too large. Discard a hog with saddle skirt ears. They are difficult to drive, their ears blind them. Head well set up to the shoulders, a good broad back slightly arched, good hams that come well down on hocks, deep sides and good length, must be roomy in order to raise large litters. Ought to have ten or twelve well developed teatB and of course Bhould be chosen from a dam that is known to be a good Buckler and that raiBed large litters. She should have a large bone and stand well upon her feet. To the casual observer these would ap- pear to be email matters, but I wish to Bay that the farmer who succeeds is the one who looka well after the small details of the farm.âE W. Robinson in Ex. New Way to Make Butter. By way of a Chicago paper we learn that a committee of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia has made public a report on the Tay'or process of making butter, and recommending that Mr. Taylor re- ceive the John Scott medal and premium. In this process sweetcream is poured into shallow pans, the bottoms of which are covered with absorbent pads. These pads are composed of heavy white blotting paper and absorb from the cream nearly all of its constituents except the fat. The cream fat remains as a layer on the sur- face of tbe pads and after several hours standing it may be rolled off. In thiB condition the product contains rather too much water and milk proteids; on this account, and because of the absence of salt, it does not keep well. If, however, the separated butter fat be worked and salted in the same way as the ordinary churned product, the result is a fine grade of butter. The process has the advantage of cheapness, since the pads may be used over and over again lasting it ia said for six months of daily use. The labor of churning is avoided, and, on account of the use of fresh cream instead of thft which has stood to ripen for Beveral days,the finished product keeps better than butter made in the ordinary way. m Dairy System Pays. The Mule. Although the mule has no pride in bia paternity nor hope of posterity, it never theless has an ancient if not honorable lineage, says a writer in an exchange. The first record of it, at least m bible timee, is to be found in the thirty-sixth chapter of the book of Genesis, where tbe historian records the descendants of Esau. Dukes were plentiful in those days, but none of them seem to have done anything in particular to beget other dukes, until we read of one Anab, the eon of Zibeon. Zibeon does not seem to be a duke at all, the nobility not running in that line, but he begat a son named A nali, of whom the historian pauses to record as follows: "This was that Anah that found tbe mules in the wilderneaa, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father." This man did something, and is about the only one of tbe lot. He discovered apparently by accident, tbe method of First select some good breed, the one best adapted to your locality, and most to your liking, and then establish a sys- tem in caring for the herd and be regular in carrying it out in every detail, writes E. M. Pike in Massachusetts Ploughman. Feed at the same time each day, and tbe same amount. Do not think that you can feed three times one day and feed the same amount at two feeds the next and let the cows go with the third feed and get tbe same result. It does not matter so much how many times a day you feed as it dees to feed the same number of times each day. Water as regularly as as you feed and do not forget to card and brush the cows as regularly as you feed and water. Even the cleaning of the stable and all other work about the Btable Bhould be done at the same time each day, as the cows will soon learn to know what time they are to be fed and watered and worked around, and will expect it, and become uneasy and restless if the expected operation ia delayed, but will lie down peacefully and quiet after it iB performed. Cows should have their place in the stable, and be tied in the same stanchion each time. Thia will avoid much con. usion in tieing ttiem up, as each cow will Boon learn her place and take it, and besides a tieup full of cowb looks much better if the cows are arranged in order according to size, being graded from one end of tbe tieup to the other. it is much more convenient t< feed a lot of cows if they are in the sami place each time so that the feeder knowi just which one he is feeding even if hi cannot see her. As hardly any two coulc require the same amount, this will bi found a great convenience. Feed regu larly; water regularly; groom regularly tie up regularly, but above all, milk regu larly. A cow allowed to go any length of tim< beyond her ueual milking time becomei uneasy and restless to the detriment o both quantity and quality of milk. A cow also becomes used to a milkei and should have the same one right along The idea of a man, whom I recently met, although quite original and perhaps having some good features, was I believe, wrong in tbe main. He let his cows come into the stable and take their place any- where it happened, and then at milking time he and his men began at one end '" and milked the cowb as they came to ' them. ThiB he said he did because it was difficult to get good milkers, and in this way he got a chance to milk each cow himself once in a while and find out il she was all right He seemed to forget that the poor milker got the same chance to poorly milk all of the cows aa well himself and thus damage the whole herd, Establish a ByBtem about your stable rii, w rk and then abide by it to the nearest »'* perfection poBBible and see if it does not pay. i Just so sure as tbe number of grazing animals is allowed to increase beyond the capacity of the range we must expect more or less loss. It is never safe to attempt to graze seventy-five or eighty head upon a section of land which will only safely carry fifty head the yeai round, although if natural conditions are exceptionally favorable during a particu lar year as they are this seaaon a man may overstock hiB paatures and realize a profit during that year. On the contrary, should the natural conditions not prove tc be as favorable as the stockman had hoped his losses at seventy-five or eighty head to the square mile will largely exceed the normal losses were the land stocked onlj to the extent of its minimum carrying capacity. Not only will the pecuniar* loss, or the probability of such loss, btl less and the actual profits on the cattle b<: more in the case of undergrazing, but thfi land itself will gradually increase in valuii and the grazing capacity be augumentec from year to year. In one case the lanc^ is stocked beyond its carrying capacity, S(j that it rapidly and continuously deterio, rates in value; in the other case constant increase in value may be confidentl; expected, both of the land and its pro; ducts during the same series of years. Sponges. S. Adderley, 307 Market S Warranted to Give Satisfaction. Gombault's Caustic Balsam
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