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... - v The GottonSituation By President Harvie Jordan. and Cje bottom Pfartit PROGRESSIVE FARMER VOL. XX. NO. 9. THE COTTON PLANT VOL. XXIL NO. 8. RALEIGH, N C, APRIL II, 1905. Weekly $1 a Year. THE SOUTtt'S GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY NEGLE6TBD. A Michigan Correspondent Calls Attention to Our Advantages for "Stock Raising as Compared With Western Farmers Who Must Feed With a Fork Six Months in the Year Soil Suicide vs. Soil Biilding The Cotton Pulled Over Our Eyes. Prof. B. W. Kilgore, Raleigh, X C. Dear Sir: I find The Progressive Farmer very interesting. So many things are vastly different from our methods. It seems as though you are greatly favored. To-day Olarch 12th) the sun is shining on fieJfe glis tening with snow. Here d there the earth breaks through111 looks apnealingly upward to tl sun Nt two hundred feet awaare drts all of four feet deep. 5ere are a hare spots in the-Vs, but runner vehicles are all JTise still, and this is the seventy-? enth day of contin uous, unbnj511 sleighing. There were a few's sleighing previous to that there was an interval o hare grd. 0T seventy-seven days the s?ovVhas no l)een wholly melted frou mi house roof. nifHiDlant'T-T5cll their cot seed to'il mills and buy back the fertil more TOi-tThyour hermudaand crab grasses str vast store of jottonseed it doez'r?11 a8 ei trusi v. ; ior me great citj trade of our Es e.rn mar" kets. i A Pflt In Feeding: Jslf' IccdWlambs is fotfo 80 extent here; farmers,1!1.' b to -V acres of land feedVyf'nty to hfty lambs, where so situr s.to pasture the ewes, profitably 'Twinauswy is ai a iow eDD tnis se; izej meal ? Isn't this meal o) vale to feed farm animals t I I Mi J W w y farmers i3 , weight) all be assured ;it. asumed 4G1, k in 1903; Hgn grown r.ils the South ills and moun- ennial grass -to go on mak- e i i . ieu, ana tne pr. close to S per cry Tins winter. j- p there is good p-fit fin The United states 000.000 ronni . of threc-eicrhtl of it f sav 90 OOO-ons. Wht with its vide-spread tain la3 clad in p idpnl lome for shee1 inir cotton and tobacl jo, all hard work and soil-suicide, whn sheep are so.'l conservators, easily tended, and pay hnZo profit as miftton, quite inde pendent of wool? Our AdvantKl&Ve vaVes t. You are nearer pjew Yorjk than is Iowa,- and I justr read, in J an Iowa farm paper of og farmcjr who is feeding 12,000 sh(ep a merle handful to what he usually feeds. The beef trust discourageip 1mi md he sold largely of his corn crop Jather than feed beeves and as'lTe asi erc" tofore done. Bui TQll seoe isa the mercy of the beejf auA jaJlroad trusts, while you peoplL area mere step to the seaboard, ai, thence to market, independent offg trusts. If I were Physically well Fd like to try the Soilivj jt does seem as though your bloiivs are infinite as compared with us, feeding farm ani mals mth a fork six months in a year. How the South's Great Opportunity Slips. The South appears to be in the grasp of the tobacco trust and cot ton sharks. Still, its people go on impoverishing their soils growing these crops: still trvinc to keor- 1m fertility with phosphate rock and im ported fertilizers to the exhaustion of their pocket-books, while a vast market for food stuffs, meats par ticularly, lies in the hollow of her hand unheeded I Argentina and Australasia sold us about 225,000,000 pounds of wool in teivreTmn w j- --rin tL South lay acjedwn-rtcross the knees of tWrf18 -uaUiiu- -rtCTlted blows of the trusts7 price 1 slipper. Think of Argentina, 10,000 miles away at the south end of crea tion, selling us wool at seven cents, and the South, with all the blessings of a robust wool tariff, burning cot ton to keep up the price I If that isn't a spectacle for gods and men ! The South Doesn't Need to Feed Six Months With a Fork. With, illimitable resources in the best pasture on earth, vast stores of cottonseed, inexhaustible possibilities in corn, cowpeas, alfalfa, rape, pea nuts, cane and sorghum syrups, the South should have millions of head of muttons and beeves, thousands of packing houses and fleets of ocean liners bearing refrigerator meats to other lands. If New Zealand can ship loads of frozen rabbits to Eng land, what ails your people? Must they always hold a pound of cotton so near their eyes they can't see a dollar less than arm's length away ? These men who are organizing the people to grow less cotton should at the same time organize them to grow more meat products. The Cotton Pulled Over Our Eyes. Perennial swine plague will make pork growing on extensive scale dif ficult in the South, but what is wrong with mutton growing? 'Tis a clean er meat and healthy always. The sheep isn't a scavenger. North Caro lina could well afford to grant a bounty on every well-bred sheep im ported for breeding into the State; on every pound of wool grown and every sheep carcass exported from the State in ten years. To aid sheer breeders, English law once compelled all her dead to be buried in woolen shroudsand. see what an immense commerce in wool she built up and holds to this day. But the South oh, she has the cot ton pulled over her . eyes and sees not! . H. Genessee Co., Mich. WILKES YADKIN r fCllDDY I J v-i ' r v I . . V A, POOWEL. Vn 'CATAWBA jVfeOWA BUT HERE IS fl, BETTER STORY. How the Extermination of the Fever Tick is Doubling the Profits of Cattle Raising in Western Counties- One Year's Profits to Farmers Will Pay the Cost of the Work. ' Messrs. Editors: The attention of your readers is directed to the maps herewith showing the changes in the cattle quarantine lines in North Carolina to prevent the spread of Texas or tick fever (distemper). Those interested in the cattle indus try and the removal of the most seri ous obstacle to its development, the fever tick, will note with satisfac- law" sections, but the small cost at which the work has been done lIso proves that it is easy, practicable end profitable Those who have given such matters consideration know that an embargo on a free exchange 'f the products of any industry is the most serious obstacle to -its development, and it is safe to state that the pres ent undeveloped condition of the f lASHC ALLEGHaN " . Eig. 1. Federal Quarantine Line Across North Carolina, 1902. tion the increase in the free or un quarantined area of the tate. Figure 1 shows the Federal quar antine line as it was in 1902, while Southern cattle industry is, to a very great extent, the result of the rav ages of the fever tick and the attend ant Federal quarantine restrictions. i A SHE ALLCGMAN1 watauoa w , , K . . ! A V f I . N 1- s , 'GRAHAM i 4 IsOKR Y I 1 I YADKIN Iri i'i W "i ' In a i El JRtDOWCLLVCATAWBAl f iffMjTHtRrOflO A 10 g. ) - i - f m -n - X R O W Aj c MAC O N TWHSVIVAWIA, Fig. 2. Federal Quartine line Across North Carolina, 1905. Figure 2 shows the line in force dur ing 1905. -- It will be noted -that six entire counties, Wilkes, Cajdwell, Burke, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston and parts of two others, Surry and McDowell, have been exempted from all Federal quarantine restrictions during the past three years. This is the result of the campaign of tick extermina tion which has been carried on by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, and is, it appears to me, a cratifviner success. It not only demonstrates the feasibility of exter minating the fever ticks in .11 stocfc To reach the best markets our cattle must go north of the quarantine line, and must be slaughtered at once or go back home. The buyers know this and pay from Vac. to V2C per pound less for them than for cattle of the same quality from north of the quar antine line. The six counties which have been released from all Federal quarantine restrictions, because wehave exter minated the fever ticlss within their borders, sell about $150,000 worth of cattle annually. If the price of these cattle was reduced only c. per (Continued on Page 5.)
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