THE PROGRESSIVE FARMED,
87S (12)
FANCY-
Berkshire Pigs
' $25.00 gets first choice three . .'
grand litters sired by a great
son of the $4,000 boar, Star
Value j his brother sold for $1,000.
. sows
"A very fine lot, extra fancy.
First, agranddaughter of Mas
terpiece and Baron Duke 50th.
. Second, out of a combination
; , Show SOW.
Third, by Fowler's Grand Cham
. pion boar. t .' '
' A combination of the richest
breeding in Berkshiredom. Some
extra good boar pigs,' will im-"
prove any herd. Only $10. OO.
FAIR VIEW FARM
' - Palmetto, Georgia. :
S E LWYN V FARM S
EDGAR B. MOORE, Prop Charlotte, N. C.
BERKSHIRES, H0LSTEIN and JERSEY CATTLE
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'if : ; Live Stock and Dairy ; '
HOW THE -SMALL ; FARMER
COULD RAISE BEEF CALVES.
Interesting and Profltaye Work For
One of the Children. .
AS I was leaving a farmers, insti
tute meeting recently,after
having urged strongly the' need of
more livestock, and especially beef
cattle on the hilly farms of the. far-
would really enjoy having the entire
charge of the work and realizing that
the responsibility, of the calf herd
rested upon him'
These calves fed in this way were
they sired by a first-class beef sire
would make big strapping fellows by
the time the. first frost was seen down
in the hollow in the fall and be worth
at least $150 for feeders. They would
need ' besides the milk and pasture
OAKWOOD FARM
R. L. SIIUFORD. Proprietor,
Newton, N. C ;
Two Jersey Heifers
. for sale out of Register ,
'.. of Merit cows; bred to
? - Sensational Fern 4th.
Price, GiSO Each
Write for particulars 1
I . and pedigrees. ; ; v
mers comprising my J audience 1 . a handful each per ; day; of corn meal
heard one farmer remark that he or cracked .corn, for the first three
knew what I had said in the meeting months7of their lives, whichamount
was the truth, but that he : had only . should be increased to a pound per
a hundred-acre farm and the children day .each for the balance of the sum
needed all the milk, the cows he mer. v 7- '
could keep would produce. "Well, I - - This corn meal should be fed in a
remarked to myself that . he was " flat-bottomed trough . about a foot in
keeping a very small number pf cows .width' so the calves would . be" com-
for the size of his farm or else; he pelled to eat slowly. : !
"Bulls Were Bulls"
LAST. JULY
but we will have to wait awhile before we can
do much talking, for our Hereford bull calves
are a thins of the past they now belong to De
gressive iarmers wno wm maice gooa money
out of them. Oar present Hereford bull, Basil,
. is a Double Standard Polled Hereford, and we
are going to put his picture nere lust as soon as
we have any of his calves to otter. We may
had an unusually large brood of chil
dren; for on a farm only a little more
than twice the size of his we have
maintained more than an average of
yvo cows. ' - -
I mistrust, however, his farm was
like thousands of other Piedmont
- Lee's Premier 8rd, cost $1100, bis sire sold for $1500. bis
dam sold for $1500. - .'
Keystone Baron Duke, the Grand Champion Boar at
the International Live Stock Show, Chicago, 1910.
Boar and sow pigs by either boar for sale. - -
-. f Registered Jersey and Holstetn Cattle.
" Calves of either sex or breed for sale. v . ,
BUT FROM THE BEST AND HOST v -
NOTED HERD IN TEE SOUTH
- BERKSHIRES OF THE BIGHT KIND
From eight dollars up. Frederick 4th at
the head of my herd. My pigs represent
both Masterpiece and Premier Longfellow
" D. C. DeVANE, - V Chadbcurn, N. C.
The milk should, always.be fed at
blood heat and always" in clean -tin
buckets, and the calves should not
be overfed in the beginning, one and
one-half quarts at a . feed, four feeds
per day,, would be an abundance for
the first two months, then a gallon
Overlook Stock Form
P. E. FOGLE, Prop
Beaver Creek, Ashe County, N. C
farms in that only about one-fifth of per feed, two feeds per day, would
the area: of the plaice was in cultiva-, bring them through7 the balance, of
tion andv in reality, he was wording summer in good: condition. "The
only about; 20 acres, instead : of 80 calves "should have -before them ; in
to. 90 - acres that he could be , using the 'pasture at all times, a mixture
were these, extra : acres cleared ; of 0f salt and tobacco dust, or stems
brush and briars. Were half these .in te proportion of one part of ;Salt
waste; acres cleared and . well set in to four of the tobacco r thia to guard
HAWTHORNE FARMS COMPANY,
Spencer Otis, President, v
H. X. Orr, Superintendent.
IIOLSTEIN DULL CALVES
Splendid Individuals from advanc
ed registry and heavy milking dams,
at reasonable prices. Address,
E. J. PEAKE, Bec'y, Barrington, .HI.
, Herd tuberculin tested regularly ,
by U. S. Government. . .- . . , . ' .
BERKSHIRE PIGS Slxtv nice tlni from , one to six
mo. ths old, sired by Carolina Masterpiece and a son of
the Grand Champion Boar Lee's Artful Premier 12th.
Am offering the, best or breeding and Individuality at
a reasonable nrlce. Satisfaction guaranteed.
" C M. THIGPEN, Route No. 5, Tarboro, N. C;
aeoiPigs so
Select
You want pigs and why not order
them out before they are selected
over. ; Later there wm be a regular
rush of orders and they-will be
Eicked over. We always ship the
est in our pens. See? Order to
day. Have both Poland China and
Mammoth Blacky
JOHN A. YOUNG & (SONS,
GREENSBORO. N. C
Our 1911 Junior Champion
Tamwortli Wmi
has a litter of ten sired by
Loco. Write for prices
and leaflet. A few show
prospects for sale, r
ARCADIA FARM; Columbus, Ga.
pasture grasses,: . they would - afford
grazing for. more cattle .than his 20
cleared acres would produce winter
feed for. This is a hint at what I
think v this farmer should be about
during the coming winter, clearing
his waste acres and getting in posi
tion to make use of more of the cap
ital he has invested in land.
, But yet, at present, with his lim
ited area there ought to be a way he
could produce on his farm more milk .
than an ordinarjr-sized family could
make use of and have a surplus with
which to feed a few good calves. Of
course, it he'is maintaining the or
dinary scrub cow. that produces about
a gallon of milk per day, he need not
expect to do much better than he is
doing. But there are plenty of scrub
cows in his county that will produce
three or more gallons of milk per
day if given good grazing; and we're
he to have six of such cows his fam
ily, would have to be a larger one'
than the -writer would care to look
after in order to consume more than
one-half of the 18 gallons of milk
produced. Well, just suppose that
three of these cows would produce
milk and butter sufficient for the;
needs of the family; what would
there be to hinder this farmer rais
against the danger of stomach
worms. Many a boy or girl in the
South would really enjoy a few min
utes work of this sort each day and
many ddllars would be added to the'
farm increase each year, beside
causing the land to grow fat.
A. L. FRENCH.
IF YOU WANT HOLSTEINS
T 15TTCCT?T T ftna T lva -HaI. R
stein : man, supply them; He
breeds the Best and sells the;
Good ones.
: , T. n. RUSSELL, Geneva, Ohio. -
Drying Off a Cow.
A READER asks, how long before
-a cow brings a calf should she
be dried off, and how near the per
iod of calving is the milk suitable
for use. '
It is generally believed that it is
best to give a dairy cow a rest of
from four to six weeks. Four weeks
is probably sufficient and' it is cer
tain that the period of idleness
should not be much over six weeks.
It is generally believed that , if a
cow has a calf every 1 2 months she
will be as profitable if milked 10
or H months as when milked right
up to the time of calving.
With some co wsr however, it re-
quires considerable skill and care
to safely dry them off and with these
- cows, that persist in milking all the
time, some claim that in so far as
PURE ANGUS CATTLE
Berkshire Pigs, Angora Goats, Jacks.
Soy Beans. Best stock low prices.
A. M. WORDEN
TULLAOOMA. - :-' -.. TENNESSEE
FOR SALE
One registered Aberdeen-Ancut Bull-
two yeari old.
One registered Bull CfUf six, months
old. ".' ... .
One pure-blood Cow. and .Bull Calf (not
' registered), very best; stock. -Call'on
or address,
J. F. EAGLE, - StatesTiUe, N. C.
the cow is concerned, it is better to
ing six beef calves per ! year" on the" allow hr t0 6 on giving milk rather
milk of the other cows of the herd?
Good scrub-cows nursing two calves
each will make of these good big
husty calves by the time they are six
months of age if given a little corn
meal during the last three or four
months of the nursing period; keep-
than take any chances of -injury to
the udder from an attempt to dry
her off. . . -
This period of rest seems to be
of more Importance to the well-be-ing'of
the calf than to the cow. The
calf is probably better nourished
ing the calves in a small' pasture. by Vhen the mother is dry for a month
HAWTHORNE FARMS COMPANY,
Spencer Otis, - Fresldent.
, II, L. Orr, Superintendent.
TAMWORTH HOGS
Without doubt the best bacon hogs In
. the world. We offer bred and open
gilts, boars and spring pigs at rea
sonable prices. Address,'
E. J. PEAKE, Sec'jr, Barrington. 111.
themselves and bringing their dams
to the calf lot at the same ' time the
other cows are brought to the stable
for milking. Or suppose all the cows
are milked, the milk run through a
hand separator, and part of the sweet
skim-milk fed" to the calves, the bal
ance, set in 'the spring house to be
kept cool for family , use.
before its birth. Especially is this
true unless the cow is properly fed
The chief advantage, however, seems
to be that the milk, or colostrum,
which the calf receives, as its first
food, is what nature intended and
gives it a better start in life.
There is probably nothing unwhole
some in the milk of a cow milked up
Angus Cattle A few choice young -bulls at
attractive prices the - broad-backed, short
legged, blocky kind. Bred In the purple.
Also registered Percheron . stallions of the
show ring type." Call or WTlte. Rose Dale
Stock Farms, Jeffersonton, Virginia. -
LARGE TYPE POLAND CHINAS
A Homelands male
wlU add 10 perfcent to
your pigs average
weight at selling time.
Buy now. Pigs of
February and March
farrow. Satisfaction,
guaranteed.
Ernest P. Welborn, Box 4, Cynthlana, Ind.
POLAND CHINA HOGS
Bred from prize winner. I won 104 prizes on
hogs in 1911. For sale bred sows and fall 1910,
spring 1911 gilts. Herd boar weight 80Q lbs. Also
boars ready for service and fall 1911 pitrs. ' '
WA1WMGHT LEA. - Brookivllle. Ky.
V BIG HEAVY-BONED POLAND CHINAS .
Booking orders now for great blgihowy iprlngplw
from 100 to (00-pound iowi and tired by 1000-pound
boara. When writing, please mention The Progressive
Farmer. .. 1
. E. S. WRIGHT; Defeated, Tenn. .
TAMWORTHS ?8SrIalTt
WEST VD3W STOCK FARM.
D. J. Lybrook, Mgr.,
R. F. D. 1, - - WlnsUn-Salem, N. C.
TnmVnrtll The hog that puts vigor, pro
I U1UUI HIS Uflcacyt ,l2e and quality Into
the chunky lard breeds. . I sell more Tamworths
than any other two breeders in U. 8. Descrip
tive literature free. Mention this paper.
W. WARREN MORTON, Rnisellvllle, Ky
Bred Bows, and Pigs, In Mule Foot TrA
Pairs, not related. Pedigrees furnished!
Zene uiey . 3 wumington, 01
t0 the time of 'calving, but it under- I POT ANH nilN A HOGS
dren could be induced to make it his. r.JT1 mQ1.cai,
business to feed these six nice, sleek
calves four or five times per day dur
ing the first montlv then twice iper
day for the remaining five months.
This boy or girl could, I am sure,
after a little teaching, be depended
upon to scald, the tin buckets from
which the calves drank their milk,
making everything sweet and clean
twice a day. . And I believe, from my
own experience, that the boy or girl
by the fact that it sometimes has. a
Pigs out of large prolific sows by great massive
boars. All pure-bred.
salty" taste; therefore, it is prob- T. ;F ' 'RRAWN ' MiirfreeshONL Tenn
it x .. . . - " '
ttuijr as weu io aisconiinue its use
for human food, at least two or three
months before the birth of the calf.
I am not strictly a farmer, but a preach
er, having. some farming interests; yet at
our house we take some half a dozen of the
best farm papers, and the concensus of
opinion at our house Is, that .The Progres
sive Farmer Is the best suited to -the wants
of our section. F. I Townsend, Lincoln
ton, N. C , - ,
mm Tim iiirrm rTTi nf! JiCRSEYS
Spring pigs; open and bred gilts; bred
sows. Best breeding. 1,000-pound boar at
head of herd. Reasonable prices.
C. E. . VANCE, - - - Calhoun, Oa.
REGISTERED DUROC-JERSEY TIGS
,' A nice lot for sale just -now. Write or
come to see them at Double Branch Farm.
;jJ I ' MILLER, rrep., Mocksvllle, JT. 0.