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from COASTS COAST.
I Tho Natural Adaptability of the
South; to Stocll RaioinrfV
How to Grow Live Stock in tho South.
ByJTait Butler,
HE SOUTH certainly has nata-
ral advantages for the grow-
lng of domestic animals. Why
are the. wild animals largest and
most numerous in ine tropics t .Be
cause weather conditions present less
severe hardships to be overcome
than in the colder regions. More
over, the absence of cold weather,
or rather the warm, moist climate
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Biaui au uuuau b auu uuuuiiu iuvu
supply. . . 77T
These, and these only, are our
natural advantages for growing live
stock.' We have less severe winters
which mean 'less hardships for our
live stock, and shorter winters with
a longer growing seasdn which mean
that a more abuodant and varied
food supply may be produced.
In other words, we require less ex
pensive stables and can feed more
cheaply. -Truly these are essential
advantages in the growing of live
stock,, but these are merely natural
advantages, and the growing of farm
live stock cannot, be left to nature.
in laci, uie inuueru uumesuc ammai
is a very arunciai proauct. uy. m
telligent breeding and selection, by
protecting from hardships and by
supplying with an abundance of rich
food, man has developed races of do
mestic animals which are highly ar
tificial, but which serve most admira
bly the needs of man in the lines for
which they have been developed. ,
Why Natural Advantages Are Not
Enough.
To develop and maintain such
races of domestic animals has re
quired the highest type of agricul
tural knowledge and . the most thorough-going
and painstaking care. We
cannot grow live stock as we have
grown cotton. More knowledge,
more sacrifices; more thought, more
labor, will be necessary. The highest
type-of farmer found in the world
to-day is the farmer who gives spe
cial attention to the growing of high
grade domestic animals. As a class,
the stock breeders of the world are
the equal in intelligence of any class
of men, not even excepting the so-
caiied learned professions. They are
not such, however, because they
breed live stock, but they are able
to breed live stock because they are
intelligent. If, therefore, our natural
advantages consist only in a milder
winter climate and a longer growing
season lor the production of feeds
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xur live stocK, it must be aDDarenr
that these so-called natural advan
tages are not of themselves suffl cleat
to insure success in the growing of
live stock. . This has been our chiaf
mistake in the past, that our mild
climate and the fact that some fefl
grew during the entire year, made
live stock growing easy. It Is 6uch
, an artificial business, reauirine mich
a high degree of intelligence and
close application of energy, that no
, natural advantages which we nosaesa
.Avon tYi o-Vi fKaga V ' m '. ... .
. wu6w ,woo uo ui essential
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vaiue, win compensate for the lack
of preparation. ' study and mm In
our past efforts to produce a better
class of live stock for the South.
Some Disadvantages of Our Climate
'In. the past these natural advnn.
tages have probably. been an injury
ramer man. a help to us In th
ing of ' live stock. We: have over
estimated their importance and un
der-estimated the part which .rH
flcial conditions and man must play
in the successful growing of modern
domestic animals. . "
First, let' us more carefully con
sider the question and ' ascertain, if
we may, whether our' mild climate is
a real advantage in the growing of
farm live stock. If farm animals
were to run out at all times and re
ceive no attention from man; then
unquestionably our mild climate
would be an advantage, but-we may
well stop to consider if the shelter
ing of the live stock for r several
months of the year,, which Is neces
sary in the North, is hot more easily
accomplished than protecting them
from some of the conditions which
our mild climate brings about
When - we consider the greater
numbers of parasitic enemies which
prey on Southern live stock because
of the milder climate; and the fact
that an animal is more easily protect
ed from extremes of cold than from
extremes of heat, is very doubtful if
we have any direct natural advant
ages in climate for the growing of
live stock. In the opinion of the
writer the advantages, are counter
balanced by the disadvantages.
Our One Great Natural Advantage.
The other natural advantages men
tioned, longer growing seasons, which
enable us to produce a greater va
riety of feed crops at less cost, are
the true conditions which may be
turned to an Immense advantage in
the growing of live stock. The crow
ing of farm animals is so very large
ly a question of feeding farm ani
mals, that the importance of the fact
that we can-grow two and three feed
crops on a given piece of land each
year, cannot be over-estimated.
It must not be forgotten, however.
that this natural advantage which we
possess in the producing of feed
crops, will avail us nothing unless we !
actually grow the crops and feed
them to live stock. It will avail us
aothing, though the climate and land
laay be able to produce two, or three
t4. crops each year, if we only make
It grow one, or do not feed these
crops to the right sort of animals In
the right way after they are pro
The fact that our lands are now
less productive per crop and per
acre is only a temporary disadvan
tage at most, for by the growing of
two and three of the best feed crops
each year," and the feeding of these
to live stock, our soils will, in a
hort time, be made as productive as
those of any section.
In conclusion, let me state as pos
itively as I may, the opinion, that
our sole matural advantage for the
production of live stock lies in our
facilities for cheap feed
and that I am further of the opin-
ion mat mis advantage far bntwAiirtU
any natural disadvantage, but it dftAst
not, and never can, take the' place of
mat intelligent care and untirw on
ergy and attention necessary nn tho
part of the farmer to make live stock
uusDanary successful.
Many farmers imaeina
too poor to set aside one-third of
meir acreage for legumes . and ; get
the cheapest known form of nitro
gen, They would rather dig it out
of the three-thirds in cotton acreage
and pay the fertilizer man full price
than let nature restore unto them
their own.--H. Eugene Pant , :
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Win All Important Awards in 1909
- IN KEEPING WITH ITS USUAL SUCCESSES AND ACCOM
PLISHMENTS, THE YEAR 1909 HAS BEEN ANOTHER RECORD
BREAKER FOR THE UNITED STATES CREAM SEPARATOR,
THE JPEW AWARDS WE MENTION ARE FAR FROM ALL. THESE
ARE A FEW OF THE MORE IMPORTANT. ONES. ' ,
THE GRAND PRIZE (Hlfffcet Award)
on Separators at the ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC
EXPOSITION Seattle, award
ed the U. S. This was tosltively the high
est award received by any separator. i:
GOLD MEDAL (Highest Award) on
Separators at the lntermountain Four
State Fair, Ogden, Utah, awarded the U. S.
: Butter made from U. S Cream by Jas. H."
Toomer, Morgan, Utah, also 'won First
Prize and Gold Medal at this Fair. ' '
w GOLD MEDAL (Highest Award) on
Separators at the Scv rumento, CaL. State
Fair, was awarded the U. S. Separator. . f
- FIRST PRIZE (Highest Award) on sep
arator, at the Ttxan State Fair, Dallas,
awarded the U. s. Separator. - , ; v
FIRST PRIZE (Highest Award) on
Separators at the State Fair, Birmingham,
a labama, awarded the U. S. ; ; ; , .
FIRST PRIZE also STANDARD SIL
VER c 171 (valued at $:oo.0o) was won iy
Mrs. Alex. NlmnKnn nf AtsnnH nntumA at-
T 1 w WWWMf VXAA MJ1 IV) an
the Winnipeg Industrial lixpuitition. Mrs.
oiiuysuu una ustu a u. s separator lor
years and has always been a prize winner
on butter. : c t
' FIRST PRIZES (Highest Awards) at the
great Mew Englana Fair, Worcester,
Mass., were awarded to Harry O ahepard,
of sturbriuge. Mass.. on Dai. y Butter and
Gloverdale Creamery. Tunbridge. Vt.. on
creamery Butter. Both U. S. users.
4IH2P GOLD -MEDAL (Highest Award)
at tue NATIONAL DAIH T SHO IF re
cently held at Milwaukee. Wis., was award
ed to J. Gilbert Hickcox. of whiwilsh Bay,
Wis., on Market Cream obtained by the U. S.-
xptST PRIZE (Highest Award) at the
Illinois state Fair, Springfield, on Dairy
Print Butter, was won by Robert Moren.
Morrison, 111., a user of the U. S.
FIRST PRIZE (Highest Award) at the
Vermont Stute Fair, White River Junc
tion, was awarded I R Dana,Pomfret Vt .
on Dairy Butter. Mr. Dana also uses a U. S.
Separator.
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JFIRST PRIZE (Highest Award) at the
Maine suite Fair on Dairy l ub Butter was
won by Mi s. L. S. Brimmer, of Tilden, Me.,
user of a U. S. Separator. , ,4 '
JRST PRIZE (Highest Award) South
S? ?? J?T' on Dalry Butter won
by Mrs. M. P. Andfews, of Huron, a U. S.
user. -'.,.
wS?STfi PBIZ1P (H,8hest Award) on
Home Dairy Butter, Htstem Fair, Lon-
don, Ontario, awarded Mrs. Alex. Bimphon.
Atwood, Ont.. a U. S. user,
FOUR FIRST PRIZES, . Viking Agri
t"1': Viinsr berte, Canada. Oct.
5r I908,', ,DallZ Buttep- Mrs. S. Stenberg
swept all four Pirst Prizes. Another Great
Victory lor ihe United btates.
mS ,BIZB Grui State Fair,
on,a -October S7th to Novembe. 6th!
i ,Prea-Ium on both separator
ana Exhibit awarded to Unind btates
separator, . .-: 4. .
claimSrrtf6 Btat6ments " unscrupulous adyertbers.
fou"n the h' B reC.ord8 t0 claim., innueuce
mJfhZ lZ J ?e C0wa and uandle tbelr milk b7 any other
SS AK' r Separator, we can show you the way to 'a
goiter profit. Ask for Catalogue No. 136. and we will attend to the
cent.Rfd,ri " tTT " U 8- Separator before 'you pay one
Z. h deposited in the bank before they . ship the
?nd lM?7JV "T W1U a free,
tairt ana in case you buy, favorable terms. Could anything be more
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