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BETTER LIVESTOCK SPECIAL. J j p jj y I j ; I a j m r-W oj cWI qJI eW ! y j. , ' 5 " ' j' : : A Fann and Home Weekly; for the Carolinas, Virginia, FOUNDED, AT RALEIGH, N. C. Vol: XXV1L No. 15. SATURDAYVPRIL 13, 1912. Weekly : $1 a Year; hy Me Must Have Mornd Better Livestock. THE South has fewer farm animals and farm animals of i poorer quality than any oth er farming section, not because the South is not adapted tostock husbandry,' but because Southern farmers, as a class, have not known how to breed, feed and care for good stock. The fact that the South has been poor also accounts for much of our back wardness in this branch of farm ing, for, having little capital and an abundance of cheap labor, we have tried to get along with just as few and as poor work animals as possible and have given most thought to such rbps as would give quick .turiii''::rather thaji , tQAeppfuitebie-ior the . economical feeding of livestock. The converse of the proposition is also true : If we have neglected livestock husbandry since the Civil War because, we have been poor, we have also remained poor so long largely because we have neglected stock-raising. We have reached the point where all this must be changed. Livestock husbandry is the most advanced, the most difficult branch of agriculture, requir ing the most knowledge, the most skill and the most devo tion to his work on the part of the farmer. It is also the most profitable branch of agriculture, resulting more than any other line of farm work in real farmers who love their work and their lands and who are able to live well, to increase the fertility of their soils and to rank in ability and progressiveness with men of any other class, . In short, we must have more and belter livestock because the time has come to change from the old "money-crop," land-robbing,, poverty-breeding system of farm ing to a rational system which will enable us to get the full value from pur great advantages of favorable climate and handy markets. And this we cannot do without good livestock. I t V y.i , i i if-.' vit - ' 'sX,' ' i , I ' ' 'T V I ' , I v ' ' . ' 'v , , f. ' S0 DID THIS HORSE A COMMON ONE EXCEL IN SHAPE. IN COURAGE, COLOUR, PACE AND BONE." FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. BE A "QUALITY FARMER" THIS YEAR An .Editorial . . 16 BEST BREEDS OF BEEF CATTLE ........ 6 BEEF CATTLE ON SOUTHERN FARMS A. L, French 8 BETTER STOCKMEN OUR GREATEST NEED Dr. Tait Butler 3 CARE OF THE PIGS Frank II. Fuller... 37 CLEAN MILK ON THE FARM J. M. Bur- gess , . . ... 11 FOUR PRIZE-WINNING LETTERS 32 HOW TO JUDGE A HOG R. S. Curtis:. . . 20 HOW TO GET MULES OF GOOD SIZE E. R. Lloyd . 0 KEEPING THE STOCK HEALTHY. 33 LACK OF FEEDS AND LACK OF SIZE. . 5 MAKING CHEAP PORK Dan T. Grayr. . . 20 MY DAIRY EXPERIENCES Felix Williams 12 SILOS FOR DAIRYMEN J. A. Conover 10 SCREEN THE HOUSE AT ONCE Mrs. Lillian Brooks Gatlin 10 THE BEST HORSE FOR THE SOUTH Two Views ; 7 THE FIGHT AGAINST HOG CHOLERA Dr. W. G. Chrisnian 34 TRAINING BOYS TO BE STOCKMEN Archibald Smith 14 WE NEED MORE SHEEP II. C. Davidson 23 WORK IN THE POULTRY YARD Lorlng Brown . . 22
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