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. UOYJ TO CHT CCOD DOaDD IVITIWUTIOXTXAJTAXPAGE 12 lHfe for North and "'" kWMi:vl South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia, v Vol XXV. Ho. 29. . : ,'. , RAIEIGH, H. C, JULY 23, 1910. ' Weekly; $1 Year; "JEFORE the stock law was passed' on the people of Bladen we could buy beef for 4 and 5 cents, and now it is from 10 to IS cents per pound, and can hardly get it for that We could get pork for 4 to '6 cents and how it is 10 to 18 cents. We could also get corn orYli is $2.15. I have tried all breeds of hogs. I have the Berkshire, Poland China, and Vanderbiltf?) All kinds are failures with the stock-law! also have two Jersey cows shut up in stalls and not getting a drop of milk. Will have id get rid of themifXdo notgetthe range back." ' . ' . ... - ' . . J XV ' - The above paragraph was taken from arecent letter in a county puper mar came zo our aesK. it was eviaeniiy wnuzn oy a men who had no idea 'as to how, he could adjust himself to. the new conditions and restrictions. It seems never to have occurred to but the realty thoughtful and capable farmer will see at once that the change wilt enable him to raise better stock, to take better care of it and to make more out of it. . ;. Again, two of the leading articles in this issue treat of winter cover crops and the eradication of the cattle tick ; and until we V get rid of the tick and save the millions of dollars we are losing ' by tick fever: and Jhe quarantine, and also learn to keep our ' lands protected during the winter from washing and leaching, , we shall have poor, soils and poor cattle. ; : Yet those who have : . had experience in the work of tick eradication know that it issl: practically impossible i rto get rid . of .Ahe ticks where the cattle run at largeright how in North Carolina, the men in the work &ay that they can make little headway where the . cattle are : allowed to roam at wilt; and how is a man to keep coyer; ; , , . . , - I ... - - ' - ' - 1 ' . . ..- - I ?- tjms ' 1 Kv vv. i.' ' ! . THRESHING WHEAT ON THE FARM OP MR. P. H. HARRIS. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. him that he could make and fence in a pasture for his cows, and get more milk and more money from them than he ever got when they ran at large. , ; ; Of course, he waited and is waiting in vain, because when a community once tries this law it sticks to itthe first proof of its superiority: ;As Dr. Butler says ton page li,j ttYear by yeoTthet area coming under this law, which prevents the live stock of one man depredating on the lands of another, is being increas ed, until now there are few sections ' at all thickly settled, " or making a pretense to good farming that have not adopted it." .. It is, of course, sheer folly to say that live stock can not be raised without free range, because the best stock of all kinds in America today ts raised in sections where the farmers never dream of turning their animals out to forage over; the country for a living; and if cutting out the ' free range increases the price of pork and beef, ' it seems to us that a shrewd farmer could make some mighty good money producing this same pork and beef. iThe difference between the man who succeeds and the man who fails may consist solely in the difference in the ability of each to adapt himself io f changed conditions.. Some men may , sit down in despair when their cattle and hoi's are no longer permitted to. get a living from their neighbors' land ; crops on any considerable area of his farm if his neighbors' stock are turned loose to run over the country during the winter? ' .. . : V7 J,1 - This question as to whether a man shall care for his own stock or turn it loose on the community is not a small af fair; it lies at the very foundation of successful stock raising and good farming.) The. all-the-year-round stock law is not only right in principle, but has been found to be absolutely neces sary to the highest agricultural development. INDEX TO THIS ISSUE. An Ml-Yeaivltound Stock Jaw. 505 A New Type of Political Leader. . ...................... ... . . .503 Cattle Ticks Cost (2,500,003 Annually as a Parasite ........... 504 How to Care for a Typhoid Patient; 500 How to Blake Grape Juice 501 Late and Early Irish Potatoes. . . . . ............ 580 Mld-Smnmer 'Garden Work f . . . ; . . '. . "J . ; 500 Notes from Aiken County, South Carolina. 580 Permanent Pastures for the South, ......... . . . . ............ . 588 Salary System Would Bare Enough to Build Good Roads ...... . 500 The Country School Playground.. 500 The Wheat Crop and Winter Oats. ,J 580 UnlmproTed Lands Assessed Too Low .V . 502 Why We Should Grow More Crimson Clover 587 t te.
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