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A Farm and Home Weekly for
lmaGeortfia. and Florida.
FOUNDED 18 86, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
Vol. XXX. No. 25.
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1915.
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WHICH KIND ARE YOU RAISING?
LAST week we urged the need for more silos
in the South, and this week we are stressing
the necessity for more and better livestock.
Until we get these-more stock and more and bet
ter feed for them our agriculture, with all our
splendid climatic, advantages, must still lag behind
other more progressive but naturally less favored
sections. In working out this problem of more
food and feed, of more dollars kept at home and in
our own pockets, there is another problem of
pressing importance, and which must also be
solved as one of the conditions to putting our
selves on the highway to lasting economic inde
pendence. This is the problem of getting rid of
the cattle tick.
We are aware that in some localities there has
been opposition to tick eradication work. Dip
ping vats have been blown upland in a few cases
something akin to riot and rebellion has prevailed.
At the same time the general progress of the work
has been truly wonderful; and if kept up it is cer
tain that a few more years will find the tick cleaned
up over the whole South.
Whenever a considerable number of farmers
are found opposed to tick eradication, one or both
of two causes exist: (1) a lack of knowledge of the great benefits that
come from destroying the tick; or (2) failure on the part of the officials
in charge, through a lack of tact and because of arbitrary methods, to
secure the active support and coSperation of stock owners. That both
these hindrances are yearly growing less is evident from the continually
broadening interest in the work and the growing certainty in an ulti
mately "tickless" South.
We share to the utmost the average American citizen's objection to
being summarily ordered to do something without being given a reason
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A TENNESSEE SHORT-HORN RAISED ON TICK-FREE PASTURES
This is the type that brings the money to the farmer
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A TICK-INFESTED STEER
Ticks and profitable livestock production cannot go together
for doing it or a chance to talk the matter over. Hut at the same time
let's not forget that it is our duty to get at the real truth, and when
this is done to act accordingly If all the people of Alabama and Geor
gia and Louisiana and Texas knew what the farmers of Tennessee,
where every tick in the whole state has been destroyed, 'know, then the
problem would be an easy one indeed.
We do not believe in starting tick eradication work and making dip
ping compulsory unless the majority of the people are in favor of it
and so express themselves by their votes. But once they have so ex
pressed themselves,, we hold that it is the duty of
every man as a citizen to obey the law to the letter.
You and we, Mr. Progressive Farmer, may
frankly differ as to the merits of this work. We
believe it means finer cattle and more of them, and
a more prosperous South. At thesametime we're
going to keep on studying the problem, and if "we
ever find we're wrong we're coming right over to
your side of. the question. 4
' Will you promise to do the same by us?
DON'T FAIL TO READ- Pas
A Letter From a Sterling Farmer-Citizen 10
Cooperative Buying Versus Cooperative
" Merchandising ... .
Helping Build a Good Neighborhood
How to Organize a Community League .
Life in an All-White Neighborhood . .
More About Credit Uni6ns .....
More Silo Experiences
Raising Our Own Work Stock ....
The Silo for the Cotton Belt Farmer . .
Why Dairying Lags in the South . . .
Why We Cultivate
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