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The Price Is Very Low
iviitK i-rom Tick-Free Cows. From Cows With Many Ticks.
From Cows With Few Ticks.
A very large area in the South has
already been freed from the tick, but
twice as much still remains to be
cleaned. The edict has cone forth
the tick must go, and go at once if
the South is to enjoy anything like its
legitimate share of prosperity.
Ticky cattle are worth anywhere
from $5 to $10 a head less than tick
free cattle, but because it is impos
sible to introduce purebred stock into
tick-infested territory for the purpose
of grading up the herds, the difference
between the average value of cat
tle in the tick states and in the free
states is much greater than this. On
January 1 of this year, for example.
the average price of beef cattle over
two years old . in ten tick-infested
states North and South Carolina.
Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklaho
ma and Texas was $29.90. For the
remainder of the country it was $48 47.
In Georgia and Florida the price was
only $18, in Alabama $20, in Missis
sippi $22, in Louisiana $24., With the
exception of Vermont and Tennessee,
where the averages were $39 and $35,
respectively. Every tick-free state 1
had an average of $40 or more. Eight
een states were over $50.
Tick-infested cattle not only weigh
less and therefore are worth less
than tick-free cattle, but they bring
less per pound. In Alabama and Mis
sissippi on January 1 the average
price was four cents. In Connecticut
it was 8.4 cents, and in no free states
was it as low as five cents. The
hides of the ticky cattle are damaged.
and such hides cannot be used for
making a fine grade of leather, there
fore the market price for hides from
ticky cattle is much reduced. From 50
cents to $1.25 is the average loss in
value of tick-bitten hides.
SAFE FARMING RULES
Recommendations Made by De
partment of Agriculture.
Measures Will Steady Whole System
and Be of Benefit to Both In
dividual and Community
Cotton Comes in at End.
(Prepared by the United States Depart-,
ment of Agriculture.)
Six measures for safe farming in
the South are recommended by
the United States department of ag
riculture in a recent circular. No mat
ter what the price of cotton may be,
it is said, these measures will steady
the whole system and be of benefit
both to the individual and the com
munity. The program recommended
is as follows:
First. Produce a home garden for
every family on the farm, the year
round, paying special attention to a
plot of Irish or sweet potatoes. Where
feasible, have a patch of sorghum or
other cane to produce sirup for the
family.
Second. Produce the corn necessary
to support all of the people on the
farm and the live stock, with abso
lute safety.
Third. Produce the necessary oats
and other small grain to supplement
the corn as food. Pay attention to
winter grazing.
Fourth. Produce hay and forage
from some forage crop sufficient to
supply all of the live stock on the
farm. Use legumes such as clover,
cowpeas, velvet beans, soy beans and
alfalfa for the production of hay and
to enrich the soil with nitrogen and
humus.
Fifth. Produce the meat necessary
to supply the people through increased
attention to poultry and hogs, espe
cially. Plan to increase gradually
the dumber of cattle and other live
stock so as to have a sufficient num
ber to consume the waste products of
the 'arm and make the waste lands
prod active.
Sixth. After all of these things have
been' amply provided for, produce cot
ton for the market.
Wonderful Feed for Hogs.
Alfalfa is a wonderful feed for hogs
when fed in combination with some
grain. Alfalfa alone as a hog feed
does not give good results except per
haps for mature sows as they run on
pasture after weaning the pigs. To
get good gains on growing pigs in-an
alfalfa pasture, they should be fed
from one and a half to two pounds of
grain for every hundredweight of live
hog. corn being ideal for this purpose.
Suppl of Nitrogen.
Nitrogen is the most expensive in
giedient of fertilizers. . It is believed
lJiat the cheapest means of supplying
is by growing clover and plowing it
cnder green, or by feeding the stock
imd returnirf ' the manure.
Dairy cattle suffer no less than beef
stock, for the tick gets the blood that
should go to the making of milk. Gov
ernment tests show that a light in
festation of ticks reduces the milk
flow 18 per cent; a heavy one as mucb
as 42 per cent. Translate this loss
into dollars and cents for a herd of
20 cows, which tinder normal condi
tions should each give eight quarts a
day. With milk at five cents per quart
a light infestation costs the owner of
such a herd $290 in the course of 200
days' milking. A heavy infestation
costs him $670. In a county where
systematic tick eradication work Is
under way he could dip his herd, free
them from ticks and save this loss for
a total expenditure that would cer
tainly be no more than $10.
This is not mere theory; it has been
proved in actual practice. One dairy
man's experience is typical. He
owned 42 ticky cows, gavethem one
dipping and a week afterwards found
that he had 16.6 per cent more milk.
The daily revenue from the herd
was increased $3.50.
For all the evils that the tick causes
there is a very simple remedy an ar
senical bath.
The work must, however, be sys
tematic and comprehensive. An un
dipped herd is a menace to all the
dipped ones. For this reason the best
results are obtained when a county,
having once voted to undertake eradi
cation, thereafter enforces rigidly the
necessary regulations. To aid it in
organizing its campaign and in super
vising the construction of the vat and
the dipping of the cattle, the United
States department of agriculture sup
plies experienced specialists ; the coun
ty or cattle owners build the vats and
furnish the arsenic.
RAISING CATTLE FOR MARKET
Half the Disease, Death and Misman
agement Is Traceable to Incompe
"'. tent Attendance.
(By W. H. DALRYMPLE. Touisiana Ex
perlment Station.)
From the day the calf is born until
the day the matured animal is con
signed to the butcher, the rule to be
observed should be: Continuous pro
gression and no retrogression.
One authority has made the state
ment that "half the disease, death and
mismanagement amongst animals, and
especially cattle, is traceable to insuf
ficient and incompetent attendance"
And another, in describing the qualifi
cations of a good cattleman, says: "A
good cattleman makes his business a
hobby, takes pleasure in his work,
studies the comfort, likes and dislikes
of each animal under his charge and
does for them, of his own accord, what
no amount of instruction or supervi
sion could insure. He readily detects
when anything is amiss with an ani
mal, and he knows when to give and
when to withhold, when the food
should he Increased and when re
duced, etc."
Men of this class are what are need
ed in the business of either raising
cattle or fattening them for the mar
ket With the greatest assurance of suc
cess. No doubt they are to be had; in
fact, I feel reasonably certain that
they can be secured, but not locally.
They will have to come from other
sections of the country for the present,
at least, where they have had the
practical experience in just this sort
of work.
BEST FEED FOR BROOD SOWS
Equal Parts of Corn and Wheat Shorts
Is Recommended by Expert of
the Texas Station.
(Ey JOHN C. BURNS. Texas Experiment
Station)
One of the best rations that can be
used for a sow suckling pigs is equal
parts by weight of corn and wheat
shorts made into a slop with skim
milk, using two pounds of milk for
every pound of the grain mixture. If
skim milk is not available a good ra
tion may be formed by using the pro
portions by weight of three parts
wheat shorts and one part corn made
into a thick slop with water.
Another good ration may! be formed
by using the proportions by weight of
seven parts com and one part tankage
or meat meal. If available at lower
prices ground kafir, maize or feterita
may be substituted for the corn fn
each of the rations. The same rations
are . also well suited for young pigs
from the time they are old enough tt
eat until they are four or five months
old. when such foods as .shorts and
tankage may be gradually reduced,
though they should not be cut out en
tirely, unless some other feed relative
ly rich in protein is used to supple
ment the grain.
Three or four weeks after ferrow
ing, green pasture should constitute a
portion of the ration for both sow and
pigs If the best results are obtained.
DISTINCTLY A "WAR BABY"
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Kitten's String of Names Left No
'Doubt as to the Sympathies of
Its Owner.
A certain little Philadelphia girl Is
distinguished chiefly by her fondness
for cats and kittens, which she much
prefers to dolls.
Several days ago she was sitting on
the sunny steps of the front porch,
tenderly nursing on her lap a coal
black kitten; very small as yet, but
sturdy and full of promise.
"What a pretty kitten!" remarked a
neighbor in passing. "What do you
call him, my dear?"
"I call him Allies," was the reply.
"Allies! I think you must mean
Alice, do you not?" suggested the
lady with a smile.
"Oh, no, not Alice! His name Is Al
lies," corrected the child. "His right
name," proudly, "is George Albert
Nicholas Peter Victor Emmanuel Jof
fre; but father says that is -a heavy
load for such a little fellow to carry,
so I call him Allies for short!"
As the lady proceeded up the
street, she heard a childish voice say
tenderly: "Come, Allies, we must go
in. It is time for you to have your
rations."
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