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Thursday, December 14, 1905. PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT. $500 MORE A YEAR FARMING back hogs, in the long-legged, thin-backed, racing of our seed or its equivalent in meal elsewhere, steer, and in tTi liW..oooo ,nv t aw at7t?t irv tt-t I , . v"aocu wcuxici. xuc wc are ruoqmg our own iana oi wnat rignuy TnnrTQ? . manure; and because no manure child that he may give to another. Is it wise PRODUCTS? II. By Growing More Live Stock. There is an old couplet that runs : "No cattle, no manure; No manure, no crops." . So true is this saying that it should be a mem ory gem for every kind of an education. The , i i. ;i ' 1. , aiuus uiis-iive stock route. You will picl whole philosophy of farming is expressed in these rlniw oil i at- ..,, j tttl x i xA aiuuS me way, ana tnese will help you few words. What our agriculture needs more with m aA ' . WUtCil. BWJUli. than terunzers; more man cotton mills; more Suppose you raise a bunch of hoars, onlv twen ty-five in number, this coming year. The offspring of two brood sows will make that number, and these you raise and fatten: some grazing land or crops; a few acres of corn extra to finish for market. That is all. Moderately well bred hogs, reasonably well fed, will mature in ten or twelve months (they should do so in nine), and will mere are light crops. husbandrv. think n in K Mi iAa More stock will greatly increase the manure of the material that go into seed, and send these made; and then, you doubting Thomases, tell to other sections and other States? That is pre- me you will still have trouble in reaching that cisely what we do when we send to all parts of goal where five hundred dollars await you? the world the quantities of cotton seed meal which Believe me, of the ten ways I am discussing, to we continue to send from year to year. - We are reach .that goal, either by taking one or all of told that a ton of cottonseed meal contains about them, the simplest, the easiest, the quickest is $25 worth of potential plant food. Where that along this ' live stock route. You will pick up is sold and fed elsewhere than the place on which even than cities with the varied industries -is livestock; because live stock includes all of these; because it markets to the world, and changes the raw materials of the soil into fin ished products that go wherever steam, water or electricity may carry. V A farmer by birth and, raising, from the West, hut now in North Carolina, said to me not long ago: "The Middle South is the stockman's vun,. - . . viixaio apiece. home o section in the country canequal it. Make friends with the hog and believe in him. m alUhings that are incident to successful stock He pays his way always, and when he finds a raising. mortgage he is never unsuccessful in raising it. 'Are you satisfied that soil, climatic conditions, Tnvito hi - . t j r xt n .i , . v.vi-uc ,yuur larm; give nun ami Accuiny siuus are aiiueiuer uesicaoie TOT the highest success in live stock raising?" I asked. "I am satisfied there is no place better; and my only regret is that I did not discover the land Ion it was grown, it means the transferring of $25 worth of plant food from one place to another. We should understand at once that every time we send a ton of cottonseed meal from North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia, or any other State, 'to the 'farmer in Illinois or elsewhere, we are sending $25 worth of plant food from a cotton State to that State where cottonseed meal is fed, we are sending so , much soil out of our country. For this reason I am pleading for more stock I - . ) vm.m. T AAA w t3 bring on hoof or in the carcass ten- to fifteen n our own section of the country that we may teed our own meal; to make our own butter, our own cheese, our own milk, our Own meat; to get not only the profit in the growing of the raw material but a profit in the feeding of it by means of the manufactured products it makes. 4J- I grazing land ; give him plenty of . room, not merely So true is this, so easily understood is the prin It ciple, I need not champion the reasonableness of the proposition; rather it should be made the effort of every farmer, whether he possesses few acres or many, to aim to grow not only roughage materials on the farm, like peas, corn and grass, but live stock as well, that the by-products of his other crops may combine with these others a little pen; he will stay with you and will not fail you even though you neglect him. . r But we want cattle, too. We want both dairy cattle and hfe-f rnt7f Wo tto tlQm ., . i " " ' - """(I UlUUi 1U1 UUdlCl 55011, climate and ieedmg stuffs! -What more and milk nnrl to is needed? Nothing they are the trinity for i our 0W11 iocai markets. Tt. is tmfi. stock raising. ask only your local dealer. Meat comes to us by to Produce meat and milk and butter, and at the And this man knows. There is no sentiment the train load; butter, cheese, and canned milk same time produce a large quantity of home-made with him. Successful in the West, prominent and cream by express and freight ; and our people manures to rejuvenate and to build up our lands, as a cattle breeder, he knows what he wants; buy them, paying such prices as might make TWs is the great thought in the true philosophy he speaks because he has the authority, of his us- rich. t of farming; it is the magic key that unlocks own knowledgeT and experience. He advises his If on each and every farm there were several the door of successful effort; it is the introduc- Western friends to come South. Why? Because head of cattle to make manure for the land And tion to the throne of . agricultural nrosneritv. nnd he knows present day needs and interprets pres- increase for the market, would it affect the farm the beginning of a better and fuller livinc on sales at the end of the year? Think you it would ihe farm. C. W. BTTEKETT. not? Ten acres with good tillage and application of stable manure will beat twenty acres without them and give some profit to boot. And this saves labor and expense. One, two or ten steers to be sold each year will soon carry vou to ent day possibilities. He is no dreamer. He is a doer : his scores of cattle fine in quality, splendid in form, profitable in management end the story. Ours, then, is a live stock section. Nature made it so. No fighting: to establish new condi- SUBSCRIBERS SHALL BE SATISFIED. With 6,000 trial subscribers received in one month 200 a day it was inevitable that in the rush some mistakes some mistakes should be made. We fire deterniinftfl. hnwpvpr tTisit. axrcrr tions at variance with those of the ages past; no I victorv: imorove vour home, vonr fifilHs. vnnr experiment to make with questionable results; land; will give papers and boobs to your family ; w afe,deted' however, that every bo conclusion., messed at before the nroblem is will Pd,,t. T T tiJ s.ubsc"eers who pay for our papers shall get it ,r - I " -" J VAAV-iA vA, VV 1QU -L IXllUb lUaC demonstrated; rather, it is for us to take hold you doubting ones to the live stock section of the ana ao tnat wnicn son, climate ana leeamg stuns world; there 1 could show you green fields and call us to do. "How will live stock aid me, an average farmer, to increase my yearly income ?" " Have you ever raised hogs? let me ask. Now have you really and trulyj? A few scrub hogs ! Tin a plow? Do you harvest your wheat or oats with a sickle or with a mower or harvester? Do you travel long distances now on horseback or do you go on the steam car ? Let me ask you : Honestly, now, do you- think a razorback hog represents the highest stage of Southern hog raising? Could you make cotton production profitable if it were still necessary for you not the other fellow, mind you, to pick seed from the fiber by hand ? Surely not. It wouldn't pay and you would stop. Just so the scrub hog is the old-fashioned pork-making machine. It is out of date. It is too slow in the doing and is too poor in quality when made. . When we get to the point of having good, meat machines well-bred cattle and sheep and swine, fertile ones; big barns and pleasant homes; good schools and churches; happy men and women. I do not claim these come only with live stock, but I do know where live stock raising is followed as a business you always find the things I have mentioned. Any system of agriculture that does not in the full term of his subscription. On January 1st therefore every trial subscriber who has failed to get his paper regularly will be allowed to ask for and get the paper as much longer as may be necessary in order that he may have it the full term. Our subscribers shall be satisfied. Representative E. Y. Webb has put the cotton growers under obligation to him by securing a change in the publication of the ginners' reports . C3 v v a v elude live stock misses its opportunity for double of the Census Bureau by which these reports will profits : growing raw products on the land and manufacturing these products into finished ma terials; salable and usable in all parts of the world. I Take cotton seed meal, for instance. That is hereafter appear fourteen times a month instead of semi-monthly as heretofore. We also observe that Mr. Webb has introduced a bill to protect .the peoDle against paent medicine frauds a sub ject Congress would do well to take up but we an extremely important raw product that is pro- have not yjet learned the exact provisions of the duced m the bouth. And this seed is an ex- measure. haustive crop. It is not the cotton fiber that deteriorates the land or that draws from it any great quantity of available food. The deterior ating effects of cotton production lie in the ex posed condition of the soil during the winter months, and in the drain the seed make upon the land. We can correct the first evil by using winter crons. and'bv nracticine- a svstem nf farm- we will have no trouble in increasing the profits ing that involves crop rotation. We can correct of the farm. the second deteriorating effect by returning the Then we want more live stock. seed to the land from which they are drawn in There is some profit even to-day in the razor-1 the first place. Now if we continue to dispose A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK. You long to "leap at a single bound into cele brity." Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable. Fame lisually comes to those who are thinking about something else, very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!" The struggle for fame, as such, commonly ends in notoriety; that ladder is easy to climb, but it leads to the pillory which is crowded with fools who could not hold their tongues and rogues who could not hide their tricks. From "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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