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A Farm and Home Weekly For the Carolinas, Virginia,
Georgia and Tennessee.
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Vol. XXVIII. No. 12. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 19V Weekly : $1 a Year.
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More Breeders of Good Livestock Nftded in the South.
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WE SAID something last week about the need the South has for
more growers of good farm seeds more men who will make
" this work of seed selection and breeding their specialty, and pro
duce really high-grade seeds in sufficient quantity to enable all really
progressive farmers to se- ,
cure good seeds suited to
their own local conditions.
Another class of men great
ly needed on Southern farms
is a class of men who can
raise good livestock, both
for the general markets and
for breeding "purposes. We
believe the opportunities for
such men to build up suc
cessful establishments are
almost unlimited. This does
not mean that we advise any
man to rush into the breed
ing of pure-bred livestock,
or any kind of livestock,
until he has satisfied him
self that he is both capable
of managing such a business
and has made the proper
preparation for it. It would
be easy to find, in many
sections of the South, men
who have lost money rais
ing cattle or hogs for breed
ing purposes, and some of
these men have had good
stock, too. The man who
sits down and figures out
the profit there is in raising
pigs or calves or colts to sell for breeding purposes at breeders' prices,
is on the wrong track. Until a man has his farm so arranged that he
could make the growing of pigs for pork a profitable business, he is
not ready to go to raising hogs for breeding purposes. The farmer
who would raise cattle of high (quality must lay the foundation for his
business in the dairy or the feeding lot.
Of course, if one has lots of money to put into the business, he can
begin at the top; but the plain farmer Who wishes to make money out
of the business had better begin on a more moderate scale, and be pre
pared to meet the seasons of light demand which any breeder is likely
to encounter. .
The sort of stockman the South needs is the one who, if he goes into
the breeding of swine, can make a profit on his inferior animals when
he sells them for pork, as well as on the superior individuals which he
sells at good prices for breeding stock. He must not only know how
to pick out a good hog, but must also know how to raise feeds and to
fatten porkers at a reasonable cost.
Such "a man will not be sacrificing his herd to go out of business if
a season of low prices comes. He will go right ahead, making a little
less profit possibly, but still making a profit. Indeed, we doubt if the
average stockman, even tho he produces good breeding stock, will
not find the pork hogs the makers of his largest and steadiest profits.
A SPLENDID TYPE OF SADDLE HORSE.
Bohemian King, owned by Allen S. Edelen, Burgin, Ky.
So the man who, vvou upply other farmers with beef-bred bulls,
must know how to take he calves that are not good enough for breed
ers and get a profit out of them when sold for beef.
The man who cannot make his dairy pay aside from the sales of the
few top-quality bull calves at fancy prices, is not the man to go to
breeding Jerseys or Holsteins.
There is much more to the raising of good livestock than the buy
ing and mating of two pure-bred animals and the selling of their pro
geny as breeders. In the best-bred herd or flock there will be a goodly
percentage of the young things unfit for breeding stock. The ordinary
pure-bred herd produces
few really good breeding
animals.
There are too many
would-be breeders who for
get this big fact, just as there
are too many who forget
that the first essentials of
success in the raising of any
kin a or livestock are an-
abundant-supply of cheaply
raised feeds, and a knowl
edge on the part of the stock
man of how to feed.
The man who goes into
the breeding of high-class
livestock after having laid
a foundation of knowledge
and having planned his farm
ing so as to insure cheap
and abundant feed for his
animals, will find the work
of raising the high-grade
breeding animals so certain
to be in increasing demand
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a profitable and a helpful work. There are thousands of young South
ern farmers, and farmers who no longer count themselves young, who
would find it to their great and enduring profit to begin training them
selves in the elements of stock husbandry and gradually making live
stock raising a more and more important factor in their farming.
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
CLOVER EXPERIENCES Four Letters From Farmers 6
DEMONSTRATION FARMS OR FARM DEMONSTRATORS? Mis
souri's Experience Confirms Progressive Farmer Views 22
FARMERS' UNION' PAGE Letters From the Field 26
FEED THE LIVESTOCK NOW They Require Care in Fall and
Spring 4
HOME-MIXING OF FERTILIZERS When It is Advisable. . 10
HOW TO GROW CELERY Prof. Massey Tells the' Best Way for
Most of the Sputh i . '. . . . 4
HOW TO MAKE PEANUTS PAY Two Farmers TeJl Their Methods 8
LEGISLATION IN THE CAROLINAS What the Late Legislatures
Did 17
PIN MONEY FOR FARM WOMEN Various Ways for the Busy
Housekeeper to Secure Needed Funds 14
SHORTHORNS FOR MILK The Value of the Dual-Purpose Strain. 20
VALUE OF FEEDS How They Are to be Determined 3
WHAT THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE SHOULD TEACH Some
Common Misapprehensions 16
WHEN DEEP CULTIVATION pATD One Farmer's Mistake 12
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