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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



Mr. Farmer, you have added to your industry many thousands of acres 

 more to your cultivated land, thereby making many thousands of homes. 



Farmers Help Stockman. 



"My brother sheepman, you have increased your number of sheep 

 from sixteen millions to thirty-four millions. You could not have done 

 •this if it had not been for the farmer with his energy and the increased 

 number of acres of farm land. Without the farmer you today would have 

 no market for your lambs. Therefore, you would be compelled to reduce 

 your herds to half, or less number; therefore making the consumers of 

 our products suffer more than they are. The cry throughout the land 

 now is 'meat product too high. 



Stockmen Help Farmers. 



"On the other hand, my dear farmer, if it had not been for this 

 sheep industry your farm products and the price of your land would be 

 far below what it is sold at today. Therefore, noble sheepman, you 

 must do everything in your power to encourage every kind of farming, 

 dry or wet. Also, every citizen in this state, no matter what his vocation 

 may be, should encourage these industries. See the revenue that comes 

 into your state through these great industries! See how it has increased 

 in this period of time! 



Live Stock. 



"Brother sheepman, every acre of land that is cultivated in your 

 state adds to your safety from the ravages of the storms. It also 

 adds to the safety of increasing the number of herds. It also adds to 

 your credit in getting money. 



"It might be well to give you some of my personal experience in 

 Albany County that would throw some light upon the relative interests 

 of the tv/o industries and the great advantage that the state and com- 

 munity gets from the farming of our land. 



Live Stock Fattening. 



"We have a body of land containing five thousand acres, all of this 

 land fenced. For a number of years its carrying capacity of live stock, 

 as ^we used it to its best advantage — we wintered 2,500 to 3,000 sheep 

 annually, pastured in the summer for about ninety days, 200 cattle. This 

 was its carrying capacity in its natural state. We plowed and put into 

 domestic crop about 1200 acres of this 5000 acre tract, barley, alfalfa, 

 field peas, oats, rape and different kinds of roots. We have been carry- 

 Hog Fattening. 



ing since we put this under cultivation, from three to four hundred hogs 

 annually, 100 horses, about the same number of cattle, and we have been 



Sheep. 



wintering and fattening from 8,000 to 10,000 sheep. Or, to be more plain, 

 on this 5,000 acre pasture, with 1200 acres cultivated, we are handling 

 about as much live stock as weha ndled on 50,000 acres of open ground. 



