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.it X .CTnT- u r i i1; --S 'V --'Ar - - , I I I I If II H U II If k f-rJ I ; ) fl V -V f? 1 A l r , i - y i - it i i - i i it it ii i i i . i i -m v i r - - i-.-; ' v? y v v. . v. a ; . ; ;. : ..'M.- Afmxfc yomt We'My for; "- ' . - The Carolinas.VirgLiia. Georgia, and Florida. FOUNDEDilS Vol. XXXI. . No. 50. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1916. $1 a Year ; 5c. a Copy FEEDSMBIFEEDERS&MUSTCO THE production of livestock in the South waits on the production I of feeds and stockmen, f Feeds and feeders, how to produce them, is the livestock problem of the South. The growing of feeds, while it requires less time and is less difficult is no money in hog raising, because of the high price of corn, profit able livestock production clearly resolves itself into a question of larger, and more economical production pf f eed. crops, j But the real problems on the solution of which the development of " iniwii KliliiHI ii-irfn WrVNn - v T i T -rvwrv. N , - - n rrr r, - wAwi(. ' , V . 1 ,-' ' : iilli IIIII :-:-:-:v:w 'Ittllillilll mmmm llplllliisiiiiiiiii . I - - ' ' ' ' ; " ' ', ! " ''"" v r V"' V'' I - .V-Jr.4, V'.. iilliil :x::?X;::::::;y:y:-;::::;:x:;:::: : 1 m A PRIZE-WINNING HEREFORD. BULL ? Raisins Such Animals Requires Men Who, From Study and Experience, Know the Livestock Business than the training of stockmen; is by no means an easy task. Profitable the livestock industry of the . Ipuih "depends, is ...the .production, of livestock production is based on the growing of large yields of ,feed stockmen men who can and will grow the feeds economically and crops at relatively low cost Large yields result, only from net soils,' while the ecb nomical production of i eedstuffs is based on. both large yields and . good business , methods.' K While it is true that livestock afford a market for feedstuff s, thus furn ishing an economical means of maintain ing soil fertility, stilly the economical pro duction of "feeds Wdconsequently the economical production 'of Uvestctck de- pend on a rich soil. , y Poor, soils'prbduce poor livestock. vToo much importance cannot ; be attached - to the , production , of Jarge ; crops . of f eedstuffs.. in developing the livestock industry of the South. When dairymen getting twenty cents a gallon net for Cmilkr wholesale, complain that they cannot make any , money, because of the high price of feeds; and when hog raisers getting nine Cents to ten cents a pound iyc : live hogs complain that 'there DON'T FAIL TO READ- i Getting Into Hog-raising . ... ' . . 3 Restrictions on Livestock Shipments . . 3 Cooperative Shipping of Hogs . . . . 6 Starting in the Beef Cattle Business . . 7 Livestock Diseases: Causes and Prevention 10 Starting in the Dairy Business . . . . . 14 About the Horse . . . . . : . .15 DonLet Ahe PureVbreds Become Scrubs 16 Organize Your 'Farm Loan Association . 16 NeW'vrdef of Business for Local Unions -'. 1 7 Packing Houses or : Cob'perative Shipping Associations? . . 17 How to Test Fabrics . . ; . . . . . 18 A Balanced Ration and How to Make It . 21 Pastures for Southern Farmers . . 23 then can and will care for and feed the live stock intelligently. If livestock men are not born, like the poets, they at least must begin to learn the business early in life. Jhe'live- ; stock farmer. is the highest type of farmer, ; because he must be able to produce crops as economicaHy and succesSfully.as the producer of so-called money crops; and he must also know how to breed, if eed and care for; hisJ livestock in addition. - - The eye of the master, fattens his cattle. The men who live on the farms Qf the South may be able to produce the feed crops eco- nomically and: raise, the efficient ; stockmen H requireu; dui me iarmer uy proxy win noi uo so. i More attention to the growing of feed crops and more attention to the training of -farm boys into stockmen are the; founda tion stones which must be well laid be-: fore we can build a successful livestock in fdustry. " ; ' ; f . ; . ' '- . x . ! -1 X'.'ri. m pi n4: ii'?; mi .7 W3 Mi" I J' M 0 iff M M. i 4 r 0,;f T" 1 . , V''
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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