"When fed with a little cotton-seed meal 

 or other concentrated food or used with 

 about fifteen pounds of good alfalfa hay, 

 it will prove the ideal feed by which dairy- 

 men may obtain the same quantity and 

 quality of milk in January as in June. 



"Even now, the best butter is being 

 made from dairy herds fed on singed wild 

 cactus with only three or four pounds of 

 cotton-seed meal per day or its equivalent ; 

 while some of the best beef cattle have 



been fattened on the same rations, and 

 sheep, hogs and calves are being prepared 

 for the market on an exclusive cactus 

 diet." 



As cattle always follow feed, there 

 should be an ever-present market for cac- 

 tus forage wherever it is grown. Besides, 

 as the different varieties of cactus mature 

 fruit from September to March, they en- 

 joy a season of exceptional shipping ad- 

 vantages. 



There is the further consideration that 

 the cactus supplies the animal with al- 

 most all the water it needs. 



In Hawaii and Mexico, cattle have been 

 known to subsist for six months on a 

 cactus diet without a drop of water. 



THRIVE ON DRINKLESS RANCH 



Animals on Millionaire's Place in Hawaii Don't 

 Know Taste of Water 



KANSAS CITY, Jan. 20. "I have horses on 

 my ranch that do not know what water is, and 

 will not drink it if it is brought before them. 

 They have never tasted water. I have good fat 

 cattle that have never seen water and would 

 not know how to act if water touched them. I 

 have other cattle that I have imported from the 

 United States which have not tasted a drop of 

 water since being turned out on my cactus and 

 blue grass pastures. They have lived for years 

 without water and are as fat as any grass-fed 

 cattle in the United States. They make just as 

 good beef as you can get in any restaurant." 



These statements were made in sober earnest 

 by Robert Hind, millionaire sugar planter and 

 ranchman of Honolulu. 



When water holes go dry on our own Western 

 ranges, cattle men hurry their stock out of the 

 country. The price of beef on the hoof goes down 

 and the price of meat goes up. Dry years mean 

 panic among the owners of cattle, and the owner 

 of pure-breds in the United States would not 

 think of buying a $1000 bull and putting him on 

 a ranch that had neither stream, spring nor well 

 on it. He would die of thirst in less than a week. 



Mr. Hind has bought six valuable bulls. He 



will buy several more before he returns to his 

 island ranch. And when he does take the animals 

 back he will turn them loose in a pasture of 

 cactus and blue grass, growing upon volcanic soil, 

 in which there is absolutely no water for drink- 

 ing purposes. And the animals will thrive as 

 others of their kind have thrived, which Mr. 

 Hind brought here a year ago. 



"America is letting a lot of unsalable land lie 

 idle in what are now barren wastes," said Mr. 

 Hind. * * * Just think of the possibilities 

 in the millions of acres of unused and supposedly 

 unsalable land in your country. 



"We have imported blue grass from Kentucky 

 and orchard grass from other parts of the United 

 States, and our cattle live for a good part of the 

 year on these grasses without water, so luxuriant- 

 ly do they grow and so much moisture do they 

 contain. When it becomes exceedingly dry and 

 the grasses are not doing well, we turn the cattle 

 and horses into cactus pastures. I have kept 

 one lot of seventy-five cattle in a twenty-acre 

 pasture of cactus for three months, and they 

 are doing well. They put on flesh just as cattle 

 do in your luxuriant Missouri pastures, but my 

 cattle are without water. 



"The fruit of the spineless cactus is much like 

 that of the prickly pear in America, but is larger. 

 We fatten our pigs, chickens and turkeys on it. 

 Any domestic animal in Hawaii will eat it, and 

 it is a great flesh producer." 



Mr. Hind started as a sugar planter and made 

 a fortune. Then he bought a few thousand acres 

 next to his plantation and imported Herefords, 

 Shorthorns and Polled Angus .cattle from New 

 Zealand. That was ten years ago. He now has 

 sold all his cattle, except Hereford and Polled 

 Angus. He has 2500 cattle, 2000 sheep and a 

 large number of horses on his ranch now. He 

 handles nothing but pure-bred stock. Kansas 

 City Times. 



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