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SUB PEQSBES5IVB FABIUIB: MAY 16 1899. 8 V 5 i ft STOCK-RAISING IN THE SOUTH. formation on this subjsct of etcck raia irgt If bo, watch the columns of your papers, read the agricultural and stock raiaiDg journals, obtain the pub locations issued by your State boards of agriculture, and we are sure you will find reward for the time taken in investigating the question. Should jou not be convinced that there is money in stock-raising in the South and want further light on the subject, write the undersigned. We are inter ested in seeing this great field of sue No Section of Cur Great Couaty is Bet-1 cessful enterprise developed, and will ter Adapted to this Industry No Busi I be glad to render information, or place ness, Intelligently Followed, is Produc-1 cur correspondents in the way of eecur- tive of Wore Genuine Returns. Conespondence of The Prcgrtsslve Farmer, All of that great region of country lying eouth of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi rivers is most admir ably adapted to stock raising. Tbia section comprises the great States of Virginia. North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama Mississippi, Florida, Termppsea and Kentucky. This is a domain imperial in extent, exhaust ible in material riches, and as fertile in pnil aa it is eeneral in climate. Under iDg the experience of authorities on the subject. M. V. Richards, Industrial Agent Southern Railway. GOOD BRED STOCK VS. SCRUB STOCK. The following, quoted from Mr. Q. W. Koiner's article, cught to bo im pressed on the micd of every farmer in the South: "It ccsts about as much to raise a scrub that will pell for 130 to 35 as it proper conditions this section ought to dceg a gQod grade Bhorthorn or Aber be what nature intended it should bo, A Anrllfl that will brine 150 to 60. the richest and mcst prcepercus section of the United S ates, and if the move ment now in progress is carefully fol lowed to its logical conclusion, the statement made above will cease to be a "glittering generality" and become a tangible and practical reality. Gen erally speaking the Southern farmer has heretofore devoted himself largely to the raising of cotton and tobacco, and while these staple products gen erally find a ready market, they do not, unfortunately for the farmer and planter, command such prises as are remunerative to the producer. Both of these crops are more or Ices exhaus tive of the soil, and this is more par ticularly true when there is no rotation of crops. This has been proven over and the same difference in stockers. A report from West Virginia says, that State is losing $2,010,000 a year by net imprcviDg her beef cattle. If this is true, how much more ia Vir ginia losing by using the pennyroyal! bull scrub for breeding purposes? This refers to cattle only. How startling would the figures be if the loss from raising inferior hogs and sheep was added. It is very evident Mr. Koiner would have well bred stock. Those who have tried only scrub cat tie, razor back hegs and bare bellied sheep, and failed to rind stock raising profitable, should not conclude that 8to:k dot 8 not pay, for, friends, there is a great difference between well bred animals and the degenerate stock that THE POULTRY YARD. RUNNING INCUBATORS. Several years ego incubator manu facturers claimed that a child could run their machines, but to day only few make sucii assertions. Incuba tors are steady old horass, but they haven't any brains. The more brains we put into the running of a machine the better it will be. They do not usu all require much attention, but they do require that little just at the right time and regularly morning, noon and night. The first thing in the morn ing and the last thiog at night. We take ciiwi ' tf Tr"""""""""-- i s w . "i used any other make. down every morning, wash and scald ; the various parts that come in contact with the milk, and let them lie in the j air and Eunehine during the day. 1 j would not think of running a butter dairy without a separator even frcm 5 cows, as the saving of butter will pay the cost of the machine. I consider that ours paid for itself the first j ear in labor and butter saved over the eld process." m THE DAIRY BUSINESS. It is noticeable that in every com munity, eays The Practical Dairymen, in which the dairv is well developed. Every machine is more or lees sus- there ia a hih deeree 0f proppeiityj ceptible to variations of temberature, d rpflement. The influence of the I therefore the first consideration ia hlinpPfl ig Ul)lif tin Ifc rcauireB m where to place them. A dry cellar is teli.-Mnca and a wide study to rnafee a good place. There the temperature th hllftinww ft fiuacesa. nd all thia ia usually varies very little during day on the line o rtfiaement. It demands or night. Then, again, the room must gentleneBS o disposition No rough, be dry and well ventilated, and yet . t , man rft achieve BUCcesa in the and over again by the wheat farmers DredcminateK in thia narfc of the coun of the West who have found wheat t d . . . . th - t b growing a profitless industry and have liV6j and oten very properly, that been compelled to change their system of farming, and it will be found true in every section. The South has tens of millions of acres of land especially adapted to stock raising. The land is well supplied with water an indis the less stock they have the better. We have had seme good stock and a lot of inferior grades down nearly to the lowest the latter pressed on us by debtors in lieu of money. I of . en thiuk that if they had kept batter stuck, per pensable adjunct to sleek raising ; the h th WQuld have teeded i j i : 2 ii u: J. vi.. i SOU 13 productive auu tm ui uu dif3poee of it in thia way tritious grasses grow iuxunanuy,wmie the short, or in many sections the ab 8ence cf anythirg like, winter, makes an ideal climate and conditions for the It is interesting and surprising to ob serve tte difference in the natural pro pensities of common and well bred st02tc. Tna former usuallv htwo tho well bemg of all kinds of stock every fft(Jul on,y Qf Uvi whilQ the lftUer month in the Tear. BeEidts, stock- 8eem t0 live that they may eeivo man's raising does not impoverish the land, d rueful arifo.'Ann apH Bnp,ii but on the contrary enriches the soil, and puts it in such a condition that better crcps can be grown, whenever it may seem desirable to crop the soil formerly used as a stcck range. It does not require very much cap ital to eDgage in Etcck raising in a small way. If every farmer wou'd begin by adding a cow, a Ehet p and a hog each year to his stcck, he would find in a very few years a marvelous growth of his available cssets, which had been acquired with a little labor and at a small outlay to himself. To put this proposition in figures it looks as follows: E3timate3 number cf fames in the following States would be: Virginia 139 000 North Carolina 1S'J,000 South Carolina 118 000 Georgia 174 000 Tennessee 180, COO Alabama 1 CO 000 Mississippi 147 000 Florida. 35 000 Kentucky ISO, 000 Total 1 313 000 This would me in an increase in live stock of nearly 4.000,000 animals In a single year, which at a low estimate would be worth over $20,000,000. Tbe increase of these animals, at a normal rate, would be very rapid and would soon reach tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and would greatly add to the prosperity of mil lions of homes. Again, one may just aa well raise good stock es poor. It costs no more time or money, and it pays to have tbe best, and so all successful stock rai3ers will be satisfied with nothing else. :z?d breeding have done this, and it is qially clearly to be seen in cattle, sneep and ho 3. At this time, I mean to ppak more particularly of hogs, and give a little recent experience with inem. List Bummer a large litter of pigs came into our possession, whose appearance sug gested that they might not be many nmjvea from the Suth American peccary, yet they were ecmawhai oi an improvement on seme of the uon de cripts that one occasionally meets with in these parts. Tbey were turntd with several others PolaLd Uhioae and Chtster Whites of about the same age. Th y all had the same chance of feeding and growing until they were killed in February, when the well bred hogs averaged nearly 175 pounds per head ; the common ones less than 100 pounds. If they had represented nothing instead cf 15, which we allowed for them, and we had shot them the day they came on the farm, we would have been money in pocket When eo unprontsb.e to us, I do not see how othurs can make euch pigs pay, without "turning one's hogs upon one's neighbor eleven months in the year and juat before killing, feeding the self made pork a half barrel of nubbins," as Mr. C E Jones sajs in the March Planter. But it is pretty rough on the neighbors. L ite last fall we got hold of another lot of a little better strain. Two litters of pigs of our own breeding, the result of a cross between the Chester Whites and Poland Chinas, and of the same age, have been fed along with this last the machine must not set where there ia a draught, or where the sun will shine on it. Tne first consideration in run nicg an incubator is to get up the heat. The lamps should be started three days (a week if ycu are a new hand at it) before the eggs are put in. Heat it up to 103 F., and then if the regulator is working steadily the eggs can be put in. Do not change tha regulator, but let the heat cradually work up, which will take 24 hours or longer. As a usual thing, it is best not to use any moisture until the 18;h day, when a lit tle is added. The warmer the weather the less moisture should be used. The eggs should be carefu'ly tested on the sixth day and the bulb of tbe thermemgter should rest on or between two fertile eggs with the scale raised about 45 F., so it can be seen throogh the glass doors. Toe temperature can vary between 100 F. and 104 F., but the more even the temperature tbe better the hatch. Properly ventilat ing the machine is very inportint. The contents must be dried down to two thirds of their original size, and yet not warm enough to dry them up This evapDration should be very grad ual (Practical Poultry Culture illus trates this point) up to the 18. h day. Just before the chicks cracks the shell he enlarges or swells out. If the evap oration ha not proceeded right, Mr. Chick will find his house too small. There will not be room enough for him to turn around in, and when he starts out to break around the shell he will therefore fail to get cut. Too muca moisture prevents evaporation. More ventilation will be needed during warm weather than cold. After the chick? commence to pip, clcee the mucbine and do not open it sgain (the inidt glass doors) until all are out. D ) net remove the chicks from the machine for 24 :o 36 hours after hatching. Out door brooders are better than iudorr brooders A email house eay 46 feet or larger is better than no house. for the brooders. R. W. Davidson (Gondola. N J ) in t.hp E'mt n.' mnaitinn nr nf. Innafr Viotta knnn xivcrsiueuiarmiuguaiiaioranigner AHnl n to fhQmo,l.na m - . 11" . I vv WW A w&AWl-UOWa JL1 Mk lift wuw Ul LUbClllgCUlJU, tUiU BU lb IOUOWS that it is not only more prcfi able as a business venture, but a very active agent of a higher order of civilization. This means better living with all that the word implies, and this ia desired by progressive people everywhere. This eubjsct is already commanding a great deal of attention in the South, and goods results are beicg shown in many localities. But there is room and opportunity for a great deal more to be done in this direction, and now is the time to do it. All who engage in stock raising will find it a paying in vestment. Some months ago we directed a com munication to the young man of the South, calling their attention to the possibilities which surround them. We hope they will become interested in chokes most of the winter and up to this writing, April 20 Jh. One would suppose that the lot not far removed from the kind that for many genera tions back has had to depend for its living mostly on its capacity for rust lirg, would, under these circumstan ces, have done the best, but the well bred pigs took the lead from the start-, and are so far ahead now that they are bey end comparison. Why people CDntinue to raise pus from razor back, boars is a mizzit - - when, at very Email expanse for a good boar, and in so short a time, a good strain of hogs can be had, evt n when very common sows are used to start with, A R. Bell wood, in Suth ern Planter. i i i irtfri When you write to advertisers Dlease thia subject. Do you want further in-1 mention thia paper. Inquiries regarding Dairying cheerfully an swered. Mr. W. M Dulir, of tita&e&vilie, N C , writing in the Practical Farmer, eays: "We u?e a separator run by hand We handle the milk from 14 oowe, and cculd banctie io from 30 or 40, a it would only take a little more tim The advantages of using a separato r over any other system of eetiing milk in either deep or shal'ow pans is that there is little room for comparison. The great saving of labor, the increased amount of butter made, its fcup.rior quality and flwor, and having ite skin: milk sweet and vrarm to feed to calves and pga Our machine prac tically takes all the cream out, learirg barely a trace of it when running al right. Another advantage is that it takes impurities out of the milk and cream that cat not be taken cut in any other way that I know cf. This is the greatest advantage of all, from a sani tary point of view. The repairs on our machine have amounted to about $10 per annum, which is pretty heavy. But I do not think it will bo so much in the future, a 3 a great part was due to careless running. We have never I Deafness Cannot be Cnred by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube getsiinflamed you have a rumbling 6ound or imperfect hear ing, and when it i3 entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, uee. 3- o , J CHENEY & CO. , Toledo.'o. Sold by Druggists, 75c. ' dairy. He must be kind, and if not naturally so he must cultivate the spirit of kindness. The cow must be love3 ; must be petted ; must be fed well and fed properly, and all this leads io the broadening of the mind and the improvement of our natures. Then there must be cleanlinesp, no only about the premises, but about tbe person. An Indiana dairyman who has a covered barnyard, was asked at an institute if he was satisfied with that way of keeping manure. 'Why," said he, "I do not have a covered barn yard for the purpose of keeping ma nure. All tne manure is nauiea out as soon as made, in order to keep the yard clean. I constructed a cover over the yard for the comfort of my cows " There was a whole volume of dairy instruction in those few word3. The watchfulness to preserve cleanliness to the cows are the corner stones to successful dairying. Nobcdy can ex pect to go into dairying with careless, slovenly methods, and make anything It is difficult, at best, to keep milk en tirely pure, for it absorbs the slightest odor that touches it ; and to keep it as pure as pcssible, it should be removed from the stables or yard the very in stant that it is drawn. We can, howevef, prevent particles of dirt from getting into the milk. We can do this by cleanliness of person and by having the cow clean. Some eeem to think that the strainer wili re move the t fleet of dirt in the milk. It may remove the dirt, but it cannot re move the taint which the dirt leaves. Ttie bu-ine?s is a clean one, or it is a ioeins; enttrpme. It is elevating, cr it i? not weli managed. ,4 k 4 4 fc. 66 0 " 1 nnn yyy Lid The improved 'Alpha" disc or divided milk strata system is used in the De Laval separators only. Strong patents prevent its use in any other machines. The "disc" system makes the De Laval machines as superior to other separators a3 such other separators are to setting systems. It reduces necessary speed one-half, reduces size of revolving bowl, saves labor and power, enables simplicity and dura bility, skimming cold milk, running cream of any desired thickness, and insures absolute thoroughness of separation under practical use conditions, which is not possible with any other separator or creaming system. Send for netv 1899 catalogue. The De Laval Separator Co. Branch Offices: 1102 AncH Street, PHILADELPHIA. Western Offices: Randolph & Canal Sts. 1 CHICAGO. Ceneral offices: 74 cortlandt street, NEW YORK. t alt to. Horse Owners! Use G OMBATJLT'S 1 Safe Spdy and Positive Cure 9, u sic SO furs Tbi K.-tft, llent BLISTER ever used. Takes the j'ltiee of all liniments lor n. ild or eevere action. I.fiii". ta .bunches or lilemtsues from Hortf and j.-4tl-. SUPERSEDES ALL CAUTERY OR Fifi.'fJC- Ir.ipvssxliU to product scar or blemish. 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