The Progressive Farmer, August 28, 1900,
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1.'
Of course thousands of acres of
strawberresare annually grown with
success which are not preceded by a
cow pea crop. Here I simply state
the ideal condition which should be
approached as near as practicable.
For strawberries can be successfully
grown to follow cotton, tobacco, po
tatoes and any trucking crop. They
can even be grown after corn, though
more fertilizer will be needed, as
corn is a great exhauster of fertility.
We very often have severe freezes
to interrupt our winter planting, but
the cold does no harm whatever to
the plants set, the strawberry plant
being perfectly hardy except in the
far North, where the thermometer
drops considerably below zero. North
of Mason and Dixon's line it is better
not to plant from November 15th to
T -ml 1 sf unless the newly set plants
can be at once covered with straw or
litter. If this is done, planting ni&y
be done anywhere unless unless the
ground is not actually frozen.
O. WBlacknall.
Vance Co., N. C.
SJ1ALL FEUITS THE MOST PROFITABLE.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Small fruits are .more profitable
than the large ones, but they re
quire more labor and study. The
great trouble with small fruits is the
marketing, which at the best is slow
, work, and it. requires so much hand
labor that profits are badly cut into.
In spite of this, however, I believe
that it will pay better to plant more
small fruits each year where the
farm is located within a reasonable
distance from a city market. My
v experience has been that the de
mand is always greater than the
supply (except during a few days
when everybody is rushing fruit to
market), f or v raspberries, currants,
handsome cultivated blackberries,
ripe gooseberries, and strawberries.
The supply of the latter is always
the greatest because more people are
engaged in raising them and the
strawberry has come to be recog
nized as our National small fruit.
Still, I do not believe strawberry
culture is being overdone in any
locality. So long as these berries
sell for from seven to ten cents a box
we can make good profit in raising
them. The few berries that retail
for only three and four cents a quart
in the city are the ones that every
grower ought to be ashamed to send
to market. They are the poor, in
significant, half wild berries that
ought never to have been shipped to
the city, or else they are the rem
nants of a lot that was unfortunately
delayed in shipment and decayed.
Strawberries require more work
than any other crop of fruits, and
next to them I think the raspberries
should come. In order to raise good
raspberries it is necessary to give
good culture, good pruning and good
attention right through the season.
Then the picking time tries the soul
of man. They are the worst berry
to pick on the farm unless it is the
blackberry. I do not envy the pick
ers of either, and if we could only
find some way to harvest the crop at
half present cost of labor we would
find these fruits much more popular
among growers. The initial cost of
boxes and crates also make small
fruit culture an expensive labor, and
although these different obstacles
prevent many from entering into the
work of raising them. But those
who want some specialty in farming
that will pay fair returns on the
labor and investment cannot do bet
ter than to study the work of raising
small fruits. When I say study, I
mean that one must learn all there
is to know from books and periodi
cals, and then study from nature or
actual experience. This latter is
"what most beginners would like to
skip. They would like to secure the
success without paying the cost of
it. But there is no way to do this in
any calling in life. We must give
our time and labor to learn that we
have been all wrong in our theories
and ideas and then begin all over
again. It is hard sometimes, but I
see no way around it.
S. W. Chambers.
The recent report in this paper of
the wheat crop of Mr. N. Glenn Wil
liams, of Yadkin, shows that North
Carolina is not such a poor wheat
State after all. His crop was 5,659
bushels, and the average 2S bush
els to the acre. That was a fine out
come and Yadkin is not accounted a
particularly fertile county. The
result proves what may be had from
the soil of this State under good cul
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Live Stock.
OUB AMERICAN MEEINOS.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
One is scarcely conscious of the
revolution that has come over the
sheep industry in this country un
less he has followed more or less
closely the development of the Ameri
can Merino in the past ten and fif
teen years. We heard much about
the poor quality of the Merino twenty
years ago, and were told that the
fine fleece that came from abroad
England, Scotland, New Zealand and
Australia would outsell our Merino
wool in any market. The Merino
was not considered a fine breed of
sheep at all, and it was furthermora
claimed that it never could be made
such. The revolution in the indus
try has completely changed all this.
The American breeders have quietly
improved their Merinos until today
they produce not only the heaviest
yield of fleece, but as fine as almost
any sheep in existence, while at the
same time their carcasses are excel
lent for mutton. These qualities
make the American Merino the equal
if not the superior of any breed in
the world for general purposes.
We have seen in the same time the
decline in New Zealand and Austral-
ian flocks. The English markets.
have demanded mutton from the
colonies, and the sheep breeders of
Australia and New Zealand have
striven so hard to meet this demand
that they have depleted their flocks
and steadily"reduced the quality of
their wools. It is said today that it
will take Australia ten years to re
cover her lost prestige in the wool
markets of the world. Not only will
the number of the flocks have to be
increased, but the quality of the
wool-producing animals be improved.
In this country we have seen a steady
improvement in the quality of, the
fine wools, and today the breeding is
all going along this line. We are
not sacrificing wool for mutton. If
we did we would make a mistake.
We hold the supremacy in the wool
markets of the world, especially in
the finer grades, and we cannot afford
to lose it. Ir we continue to make
these conditions more emphatically
favor us we shall not only control
the markets for fine wool, but at
tract more foreign buyers here than
ever before. To some foreigners the
idea of America controlling the fine
wool markets of the world seems
ridiculous, for London has held that
plum so long that it must belong
there by right of inheritance. But
it would not be the first industry
that we have revolutionized and
taken from the more conservative
foreigner. What we ueed now is the
same steady improvement in breed
ing, selection and care of sheep that
we have maintained in the last ten
years. The result of that will be to
make our wool product more valuable
than eve before, and give to us a
paramount influence in the sheep
and wool industry of the world.
E. P. Smith.
- SHEEP OR WOOL; OR BOTH.
. The Michigan Experiment Station
has issued a valuable bulletin on the
the "Production and Marketing of
Wool," in which some season re
marks on the question of flock rais
ing are dealt with. We make the
following extracts therefrom :
It is doubtful whether the time
will ever come when the keeping of
sheep for the production of wool
alone can be made profitable in
Michigan or in many localities in the
United States.
Wool growing upon such a basis
must, in the future, be confined to
localities remote from the great meat
consuming centers, where farmers
are unprovided with rapid transpor
tation to these centers, or where the
cost of transportation of mutton
would be so high as to render the
carcass of little or no value.
A moment's consideration would
suggest that wool growing under
such conditions could only be made
profitable upon cheap lands where
the herding of large- flocks would be
possible and where the Climate and
other conditions would be favorable
to the development of sheep and the
healthy growth of the wool fiber.
We can conceive how present condi
tions might be so changed as to ren
der sheep husbandry profitable, if
the wool product only were taken
into account. It is not probable,
however, that we shall ever see a
repetition of conditions which ex
isted earlier in this century. It is
not probable that the price of the
finer grades of wool will go so high
that the breeder, even of that class
of sheep, can afford to entirely over
look the ultimate value of the car
cass for the block.
We expect to see in the future
more than in the past, two classes of
sheep raisers throughout the United
States. One class will keep sheep
for the primary object of producing
mutton, with wool as a secondary or
incidental product; the other will
aim to produce wool first and mutton
second. Whether the production of
wool or mutton should be the aim of
the breeder will depend upon his per
sonal preference and upon his
capacity. Some sheep raisers will
prefer the mutton bree'ds, others the
Merino. The great mass of sheep
owners will vacillate from breeding
grades of the one to breeding grades
of the other as conditions favorable
to the production of wool or mutton
at the time seem to render the one
or the other most profitable. It is
not hard to see that the ranchman
who can run large flocks of sheep in
bands, and who has at his command
an almost unlimited grazing ground
can produce wool more economically
than the general farmer who keeps
a flock and looks upon it simply v as
an incidental contributor to his in
come. The owners of small flocks then,
soonest feel the effects of depression
and are most apt to quickly dispose
of their flocks after one or two un
profitable years. These facts should
forcibly impress upon the minds of
flock owners, the desirability of
choosing one or the other of these
lines of sheep husbandry and adher
ing to it year after year. Not until
the wool growers of this country are
content to do this will the sheep in
dustry, viewing it either from the
purely wool-producing or the mutton-producing
standpoint, ever take
its place in the front rank of the
great sheep-growing countries of the
world. We believe future conditions
will bear us out in the statement
that there will be very few years
when the man who has a flock of
either mutton or wool sheep of good
quality, who pursues careful and
painstaking methods in handling
them will fail to secure a net profit.
There is a promising outlook for
the American farmer who economic
ally pro duces wool and mutton. I
doubt if we shall again see the time
when the flock master can secure a
net profit from his flock unless he
makes a thorough study of the in
dustry, knows what he ;s trying to
do, and how he is to accomplish his
ends, and is willing to settle upon a
policy of breeding and rigidly ad
here to it. May I venture to suggest
here that one of the greatest sources
of loss to the American farmer has
been his vacillating from one line of
breeding to another, from one rota
tion of crops to anothor, and from
one system of farming to another.
Use all the means at hand to decide
the wisest line of sheep husbandry to
pursue under your conditions, and
then do not deviate from it without
the best of reasons. , Remember that
a constant, persistent and settled
policy is best.
The Dairy.
UTILIZING DAIRY WASTE.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Dairymen who have an eye to all
the profit in their business that is
obtainable, seek to utilize the sweet
skimmed milk, sour milk, butter
milk, or whey, that results after the
various modes of lacteal manufac
ture. To utilize it with profit does
not mean that it is to be treated as
unclean "swill," and dumped into a
sour barrel from which unfortunate
pigs and calves are fed. Any variety
of the dairy waste above mentioned,
if stored in clean receptacles and fed
judiciously and comparatively fresh
to growing calves, will result in the
upbuilding of the dairy instead of
the opposite.
Pot-bellied, hide-bound scrawny
animals, follow the feeding of fer
mented or excessively sour and ill
smelling dairy swill, which has no
legitimate place except in a sewer.
Butter milk is best fed if diluted
with sweet skimmed milk or. sweet
whey. It is too rich for growing
animals if fed alone, and stunts them
rather than accelerates development.
Keep your storage barrel for dairy
waste in a cool - ventilated spot, and
take no half way measures when you
daily wash and scald it. The pre
cautions outlined in this article are
by no means unnecessary, if one
wishes to get all of the good there is
out of milk and its products.
The writer has inspected hundreds
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