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FARM WORK 10 R AUGUST-Page 5. Vol. XXVIII. No. 31. A Far.o od Home Weekly For the Carolinas, Virginia. Regdu.s. Georgia ana Florida. fUCED, 1886, AT RALEIGH. N. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 19& Weekly: $, a vea. : n ANIMALS THAT "EAT THEIR HEADS OFF. 11 EVERY Progressive Farmer reader has heard of such animals ; most readers have seen such; some; we fear, have owned such. In deed there are many more such animals in the land than most ZlZl A : y SUCn animal-every horse, or cow, or pig do enough labor, give enough milk, put on enough flesh to pay for the feed consumed and the care received by itis a posi tive injury to its owner. Let's look at a few examples. Some time ago Prof. J. F. Dug gar wrote us about some s lamia uu wnicn i 41 . . me muies work ed only 65 days m a year. Prof. Duggar figured that each day's work done by one of these mules cost $1.53. There are many farms on which mules are keot a whole year for 95 days'" work. Each one of these day's work costs of? Deu thC mulGS 3 dollar' These mules are ,eatinff their heads m pronts only when he labors iw i? resonbIe man would blame the mules for this failure to pay H .In 3 J 6y WCre there waitinff for work to do- Th ult was 1T T 6 Wners who arranedor disarranged-their farming so that the work-stock was left idle most of the year. It is safe to say, loo, that on these farms-every reader knows what was raised on them ana how they were managed-there were times when more mules were Dauiy needed, These farmers made the mistake of trying to put a whole tarn i into one crop, a whole year's farming into five or six months. l ake another example: There are thousands of cows that do not produce 150 pounds of butter-fat in a year. Some of them fail because iney are too poorly fed to do it ' man V otflArO foil ormnlir A are not that kind of cow"-hPMncP thv h w i a e ;.t. - . . , -v v. iivi uccu U1CU 1UI II111K proauction, and simnlv cannot rnnvAr r 4. . , ' v,uuu iuiu uiuk. 10 pay lor their upkeep. Every such cow as this in a dairy herd decreases cer owner's profits instead - i"-"" , uu iuc uwuci la Simmy making himself poor working to feed that cow. Yet it is follv to blame thft nhf rrr qv. j u u-t u ir .... io uuni i iic uesi sne can ir nerseit : and it sn't . ...ovj miub iui uci uwner. 11 is nis business to get the scales and a milk-testing outfit and find out what A PAIR OF BERKSHIRES THAT WEIGHED 820 POUNDS WHEN A YEAR OLD. ,ney Were Wot Ka,sed ,n Th,s pen. but Largely on Pasture Crops and Skimmilk. the cow is doing. If she is living on his labor, the thing for her is to go first to the fattening pen and then to the slaughter-house. One more example: In some places one can see hogs in bare lots or in little dirty pens waiting patiently or impatientlyfor feeding time and their bucket of swill and arm ful of corn. Sometimes these hogs are thin; sometimes they are fat; but it is safe to say that almost everyone of them is "eat ing his head off" right there in plain sight of his owner. It would be foolish, however, to blame the hogs for this If they had some alfalfa or cow- peas or soy beans, or skim milk to mix with the corn or rather to mix the corn with they would pay bigger prices for it than T"m OT- nrnuM be likely to get anywhere else. Three great reasons there are, then, why farm animals ,4eat their heads off:" (1) They are not kept at work; (2) they are of the wrong type, and (3) they are not properly fed. And the owner rather than the animal is at fault in all three cases. s irJ FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. A Campaign for Racial Segregation Make It South-Wide . 1 1 Don't Sell the Cows To Do So Means Future Loss .... 3 Dynamite or Drain Tile?-Why Mr. French Prefers the Latter for Subsoiling jg How to Grow Late Celery Directions by Prof. Massey . . . . 4 How to Value Standing Timber and What Prices to Exoect -No. 4 of Mr. AShVs Articles . 6 Insect Pests of the Housekeeper How to Fight Moths, Cock roaches, Bed Bugs and the Rest : g Sheep Will Pay Some Experiments in North Carolina .... 12 "Sunstroke" of Horses Causes and How tn Prnf " t o - . - ... Two LoU of Okra Why One Brought 65 Cents and the Other $1.65 16 Why Crops are Laid-By on Ridges Good Reasons and Bad , 3 t ... f
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