556 liOCK CX)UNTY, MINNESOTA. 



STOCK. 



I have just enough cows to furnish my own butter and milk. 

 Short-Horns are the especial favorites of farmers liere, though 

 little attention has been paid to stock raising until within the past 

 two years. All young stock are herded in Summer, and milch 

 cows are picketed. There is no creamery in the county, but 

 there is a fine opening for one, together with a demand for 

 good butter and cheese. 



Horses bring good prices, ranging from one hundred to 

 one hundred and seventy-five dollars each. Farmers in this 

 vicinity show but little interest in rearing them. The Nor- 

 mans are my favorites for draft, and Black Hawk-Morgans for 

 light work and roadsters. At our last county fair there was 

 a very fine display of blooded horses ; of blooded stock of all 

 kinds, in fact, which awakened quite an enthusiasm on the sub- 

 ject of stock raising, a business which I am sure will prove a 

 greater success among farmers than persistent grain raising. 

 • , There is no doubt of the adaptability of southwestern 

 Minnes(?ta to stock raising , to quote the opinion of the agri- 

 cultural editor of the St. Paul Dispatch: " If rich soil, magnifi- 

 cent grasses and fine climate mean any thing in any country in 

 the world, they mean some thing for the farmers of south- 

 western Minnesota. I do not believe there is a better country 

 in all the great new Northwest for diversified agricultural 

 industry than this region, or a more disastrous one for the 

 persistent and entire cropping of wheat." 



POULTRY. 



Turkeys are raised in considerable quantities here. Bronze 

 are the favorites, as they attain greater weight, but they are 

 not as hardy as the common breeds. 



I keep the common breed of white ducks, which are easily 

 raised, and prove profitable for feathers. They make fine 

 eating, and sell quite readily at one dollar per pair. I raise 

 about one hundred each year. 



I have no distinct breed of chickens, but those which I 

 have had the past season have proved so remunerative that I 



