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"HAMPTON'S ADDRESS
Ex-Pfcsidcrit Mokes nn Interesting
nnd Valuable Talk Hcfore tlio
Stockmen's Convention.
p.1!ving is the full toxt of bx-I'rcsi-dent
R.M. Hampton's address ivttlio Ne
braska Stock Growets nssoclntion con
vention, hold in this city Inst week, nnd
win li is printed in full because of its
interest nnd value to this section in
particular.
Guntletnon of the Convention: We,
an cattlemen have passed through a
car of transformation, or in n trans
form period, whether we hnvo i cached
the base of that period is an opon ques
tion. Wo me not alone ns a class of
men but most business interests have
suffered equally with us. It would, not
bo nature to I cumin stationary and it is
not history Unit we always process,
id the element of advancement with
tho individual for n peiiod of years
should maik his ability to succeed 01
fail in his undoi takings, so that tho
standard by which we must measure
the individual, tho community or the
business, must be taken for a potiod of
years. Tho individual is ficquently,
quickly measured. Tho community, ot
tho people as a whole will shape their
destinies according to what nature lias
proided for thorn to dovclopc. The
industry with which wo arc engaged is
but a link in an endless chain, and is
not independent of any other link,
whether that be the ship builder, farm
er, or the man on tho railroad section.
We nil stand together and while it is
nature that wc all endeavor to better
our condition, a good result is n gain to
us as a whole. It is true that many
industries, many interests through their
management by individuals, seeks an
undue advantage over those not so veil
organized and protected so that our
organization must not only strive to ad
vance our industry but to protect our
selves against encroachments. The
record of the past for our industry
might not justify us in saying wo had
advanced, but to go back ten years,
and tako the period of years into con
sideration, we are justified in saying wu
have a good record.
Fifteen years ago the country was n
wild, open countryor about that timo
or a few years prior, we of us who came
here mistook the country for an agri
cultmal country and many of our best
years, our toil and what means we had
weio wasted in following a course con
trary to nature's own laws, It has in
whole been a period of education, and
one in which wo believe the course is
far from being completed. In the
course of a few years we began drift
ing from the idea of plowing to one of
fostering the live stock industry. Our
first lessons in a, b, c's was the sight
of tho range cattle roaming at large
subsisting on the natural grasses. We
got our English and German mixed in
this lesson for we only saw the painted
picture of tho enthuisiast. We received
this lesson as a beautiful dicam and fol
lowed it as a man chasing the end of
the rainbow to possess that pot of gold.
It was a beautiful picture to look at
and nt last many men were in the
chase. This went on till our range
was ovei stocked and then came a period
when every man seemed as if he want
ed to drive the other fellow out of busi
ness, and excited by a period of high
prices of cattle and easy money there
was a race to see how many head of
cattle you could call mine. This proved
disasttous to all we lost sight of the
leal object in tho industty. The quali
ty pf our cattle degenerated, and with
the first lesson still in our minds we
were trying to live on tho range and our
herds were degenerating for the want of
proper food. The last few years e
have commenced to think about another
lesson on this subject. We know now
that it is not a business of chance, and
can be followed only as any other busi
ness. We might treat this under three
heads Til st the man. The individual
must at least he of ordinary makeup.
Nature must first have provided him
with some elements of advancement
with energy to work and this must be
put into activity. Second a place or
the real property wherein he can sub
sist. I question the advisability for the
man to embark in this industry without
first establishing a good home. A
home where he can produce the neces
sary food and in estimating this food
proposition do not draw upon your im
agination too strong or measure your
hay with a rule that will give you only
iooo pounds for ton. Upon the care
of your cattle will largely depend your
success.
The amount of feed required to keep
cattlo varies largely with the nature of
the grass in tho locality in which you
live, but in no instance ought a man to
allow his stock to become poor during
the winter. It is a question of pounds,
and not heads that you are to produce,
and stock will make more pounds in
twelve mouths than in six months and
there is no logic in allowing your stock
to remain a part of the year with no
growth. Growth and advancement
should be sought for in each mouth of
the year. A home for tho individual is
not all. A home for the live stock
must be prepared, and while you eat
three meals a day and seldom go
hungry how about t! c live stock un
der your care? If you are a man rais
ing a, family is the young child starved
and hungered if so w hat kind of a
child 3ocs he appear from a physical
standpoint? The same thing will apply
to your cattle and horses. It is not
only cruel, nnd the individual so doing
should be punished by law, but it is
without profit, without reason, nnd I.
must say shown a weakness in the man.
Tho same cate should be given your
live stock that you give yourselves.
You keep your house supplied with
meat, flour and grocotics, so must your
herd he supplied with the necessary
food to keep them in a growing condi
tion. A home for your live stock means the
ical property if you have not mote land
than will keep n milch cow, then you
are not entitled to more than one cow.
The laud question has been an aggra
vating one. The land of much value
linn heen acquit cd title to an a rule
the surrounding or reacted hinds of u
loss value has hecti a hone of conten
tion nnd wo believe will continue to be
so until it passes into tho hands of in
dividual owners. The new law, rnlled
the Kiukaid hill, was intended to place
this land in the hands of the home
seeker or tho man who would acquit c
title to this laud under the Homostoad
law. There is a wide range of opinion
as to the merits of this law, but how
ever thnt may be, or what tho next fivc
ycais will bring as nn cxpctimoiit it is
going to have a. disturbing influence uu
on the customs and beliefs now exist
ing in this country. We believe a
gicnt portion of this i ejected laud will
he homestended, while it is quite prob
able that ninety per cent of tho lands
so taken will be abandoned, but after
this has been tested and if the laud
still remains vacant some other law
should in some manner dispose of the
hind. Our belief is that wc aio fast
approaching a time when we will oc
cupy only that which we own and that
tho hn stack will be tho key to tho
cattlemcns future.
Next wc hae qttnlity, the good ani
mal or the had animal. If wo ate rais
ing cattle for milk wc look for a differ
ent type than if we are producing for
beef. Most of us are working in the
beef part of the industry. Too much
care cannot bo given to the subject of
quality in your herd. Tho inferior
quality and the weak constituted cattle
should ever' year be weeded out of
your herd and shipped. They arc not
money makers and should be disposed
of. I do not feel competent .to attempt
to inform you of what is good and what
is bad but every man should make a
study of this subject, nnd must depend
upon his own judgment. Wc have no
ticed there has become a lad, to look
at a bunch of cattle and call them good
because they are all red or because
they are all white faces. I hardly think
there is anything in the color of the
hair the animal is covered with. We
ought to think and inform ourselves on
the points in an individual animal that
go to mako him a good animal or a
poor animal. Tho packer or the man
who buys beef for tho slaughter house
bases his price on the prcccntage of
beef the animal will dress. Our edu
cation should be along the same line,
quality means weight and percentage
of the best meats the animal will pro
duce. Our agricultural schools are ac
complishing a good work along this
Hue. There is as. much need of educa
tion in our farmer, or our stock grower
as there is with our doctors or lawyers,
each one educating himself in his par
ticular line. After you have secured
the good individual you will still make
a scrub of it if you are not pieparcd to
properly care forit, and furnish it with
the necessary food. We ought to make
our industry a strong link in tho endless
chain, hut if you leave one part of the
industry without the proper care, 'the
link is weakened in that spot and your
efforts fails. The industry itself is the
natural and principal industry of our
part of the state. The future is in
good hands. We believe nature has
smiled Upon yon. It rests with the
people to work out the future for good
or bad. The individuality iu your cattle
will be one of the great factors in the
future. The country is full of common
cattle and while wc can .vork some of
them off in shipments it will be a slow
process and we must look more par
ticularly to the bulls wc use. To use
a full blood or papered animal is not
sufficient. I think the percentage of
socallcd full bloods or at least those
which have come under my observa
tion are at least fifty per cent scrubs
and a good individual is not all that is
required. The good individual may be
a grade and the ancestors poor in qual
ity, xou should know something of
the ancestors and this can not be too
carefully adhered to. Then the buying
of an eastern animal must be guarded
against, the corn bin bull. You can
not get good results from seventy-five
bushels of corn fat. Fat on an animal
covers up many bad points in the in
dividual. To use a grade animal with
grade cows will produce you a scrub.
Now after touching on the man. the
home, and the quality of your herd,
let us go back to the home and its man
agement. There should not simply be a
place to stay it ought to be made a
home in the true sense of the term. A
home where it is a pleasure to be, a
pleasure to see and a pleasure to think
about. There is no reason whv the
rancher should depend ujwn his saddle
horse, lariett rope and spurs to make
him a living. Every man iu the busi
ness can have his garden and a good
one, can have his truck patch, the
potato, the roasting ear, the cut rant,
iucKuuacwiiy, me piuin, Most any
and all small fruits can bo produced
with a profit. The three should be
looked after, it beautifios tho home if
nothing more. You can have the
chickens, the pig, the cow with milk
and butter, and in fact if you follow
more of the fanner's plan the expense
of operating the ranch can bo reduced
to a very small item. This is not a
theory of mine. I am oporating a ranch
nnd the party in charge will raise 400
or 500 chickens. They have their pigs,
thQMws. and the- buttor, the garden
and TheHmckT palch. Wq sell eggs,
butter and'hnve most everything we
use on the table produced upon the
place. There is no reason why a ranch
man should buy all he eats and have
the groceiy bill that the cattle must
pay. This item was lost in our first
lesson in the industry. .It was when
wc mixed our English nnd German. Let
us add this phase of ranch life iu our
study of the industry, it will prove to
be one of interest nnd profit. The
horses needs more attention from the
ranchman. Every man iu the industry
uses hotses and he can produce them
at a vciy smnll cost, but while you are
producing them you should have a good
kind. 1 would say kcp vour eye on
the draft horse. Get you a good stal
lion and keep one on the place. To
got a good one does not mean that you
should buy a high priced horse or bo
cause sonic one else raised him or be
cause he is imported, there are plenty
of good horses iu the country. Huy
you a good colt, one that has good an
cestors nnd raise him. This will not
require the outlay of much money,
have a few good horses to sell each
year, they will help to pay some ex
pense bills. These nrc matters every
man can spread out on his own table
and think about them. Then we have
an oiganizution or the intciest of our
people collectively, we want to be to
gether and wotk together. Wo should
be bound closer to one another and
thtough our organization be able to
protect tho industry from encroach
ments. We have good laws and bad laws.
Conditions nnd other enterprises mrtke
it necessary for new laws and some one
to enfoice them. We ought to be able
to have something to say about who
will make those laws and whom we will
entrust to enforce them. A public of
ficial is u public servant, or at least we
have been educated to think so, but
too often the public official is simply
fanning the public. As nn organiza
tion we have a right to discuss these
matters nnd look for good men to serve
us. Wc nre not politicians and should
not be bound by a political name. Wo
do not want to bo classed as a stump
speaker of past events, but look for
something good in the future and go
after it. We want better service from
the transportation companies taking
pur cattle to market. Wo believe that
we are paying too much money for the
services contracted for and that our
stock is not being handled as they
should be. The return transportation
has been restored to the shipper. This
is a3 wo think it should be, but we, the
shippers, nave a duty to perform in the
matter. The matter of having some
one to go on our shipping contracts,
except parties in actual charge of the
cattle and those necessary for the care,
is not within the spirit of the contract
and should be guarded against. Our
organization is for the benefit of its
members protection in all markets
where we have our inspectors working
every day and your secretar'y report
will give you some idea of the good we
are accomplishing there. We do not
stop at the yard inspection. Cattle
rustlers know we are in the land of the
living, and the court dockets and the
state prison will bo iu evidence in this
line. The influence in the west has
been to drive out the bad man, encour
age and stimulate the good man. We
want this influence to go on until all
men are good. We want all cattlemen
to come with us. It will help you.
For Fine Boot and
Repairing
Shoe
-CAM. ON-
U D. NICHOLS
Also has in stock a new line of GENTS'
SHOES of the best manufacture and at
prices thnt will suit. Call and examine
the stock before you buy and you will
save money.
At K. Madsen's old stand, first
door south of Cigar Factory.
J. Rowan
DEALER IN
FLOUR and FEED
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ItANUI.KS THE
Celebrated Ravenna Flour
At IMUclng'ton'b old
btand, 'phone No. 71.
FERRIS WHEEL HAY STACKER
I can furnish you with the best stacker
on the market. My machine has the most
improvements, surest in its working, sim
plest but superior in construction, and
will give you the best satisfaction.
I Isew Principles
IT IS BUILT ON -
New Features
New Ideas .
The quickest acting
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I lie strongest built
The shortest rope '
The only rebounding fork head
The only stacker with but one pulley
It is pronounced the bast hay stacker
made l) all who witnessed it in operation
on the Hague ranch in the fall of 1903,
where the test machine handled about 900
tons of hay without a break, and since that
time some valuable improvements have
been added.
I ask you to come and judge for yourself
the merits of my machine as compared
with others Call at Forest Lumber Co.'s
yards and examine stacker.
I wish to put my machine in the field
against any other stacker made.
Send for circular. John Hague,
Alliance, Neb.
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of Men's, Boys' and Children's Clothing- also a line of Ladies' Suits, Skirts
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received for money paid out.
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Just now we are showing some ex
cellent values in new and nobby patterns
in iron beds, mattresses and springs in
many kinds and at prices to suit you.
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We have in a big stock of iinoleumns
and mattings-, showing all new patterns,
and have a larger line of carpets than ever
before. Our carpets are all sewed by
electric machinery, making a stronger and
better seam than hand sewing. See our
floor coverings before buying; ours is a
well selected stock.
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