HORSE AMD MULE SPECIAL.
(Title Reitstered In U S Patent Office.)
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r A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY FOR THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND GEORGIA.
ol, XXIV. No. 10.
RALEIGH, N. C, APRIL 15, 1909.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
Home-Raised Work Stock as a Guide Post to "$500 More a Year."
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Index to this Issue.
Chansons in Southern Cattle Fever Quarantine 13
S."00 1ro J Year Farming;: How to Make
it xv. . .... .... : 2
IloW One .Man Made Money ISaising Hay . . 5
How We Have Jiouglit Stallions. 7
lifinieiM'ss in Horses and Mules 12
Let Ts Press Toward tlic Mark of the I'ri.e of
Our High Calling ..... 11
.Make Money liaising Hay, W. F. Massey. . . . . 3
Notes and Comments, W. F. Massey . 3
Onesided Fertilization, W. F. Massey... ... 17
Dur NcRlcct of Dairying and Poultry. . . . ... 14
Seven Health Rules. . . ! . . 10
Seven Reasons Why You Should Not Take Pat
ent Medicines t 8
Ten Poultry Pointers, Uraha Poultry Farm.. 16
The "Farmer's lJst Friend, A. L. Freneh 4
The Farm Savirtgs Bank, J. C. Stribling 6
Veterinary Questions Answered . . 13
We Are an Kxtravagant People, Mrs. V. X.
Hiitt . . " S
What's the Xews? H
Why We -Xeei Heavie Work Stock 10
'With Our Rural Carriers. . . 1
I Courtesy McLaughlin liros.
UST as long as we have more men than mules and horses, we must continue to produce
our crops with man power instead of horse power; and, since man power is more ex
pensive than horse power, it also follows that as! long as we try to get along with so few
work stock the production of our crops will be more! expensive than it should be. The man
who cultivates a row at one trip across the field has . great advantage over the man who
must go two or more times to cultivate that same royv I
As Prof. Massey says, " Mule power is far cheaper than a dajkey at the end of a hoe " ;
and the Southern plowman with one scrubby 900-pound mule and a little makeshift of a
plow cannot make crops as cheaply as can the Vestern farmer who drives three 1,500-pound
horses and uses a disc or gang plow. t
The proposition we are up against is easily stated, however hard the disposition of it
may be : We use out-of-date, inefficient emplements jto do our farm work, thus adding an
unnecessary expense to every farm operation, and tlie reason why we use these small and
uneconomical tools is because we have not the work stock to handle improved machinery. '
We might as well face the matter squarely Thej cost of producing all our crops is too
great, and the margin of profit therefore too small, and Before we can ever hope to remedy
this situation we must do two things: We must ( increase the average production per
acre and (2) decrease the cost of working each acre.! Good horses and better tools will en
able us to do both; but we must have the horse power before we can handle the improved
machinery to advantage. ' f
Moreover, to get these horses we must raise them ourselves. We have not the money
to buy them, and we can raise horses just as cheaplyjas anybody else can. Other folks make
money raising them for us; why cannot we raising them j for ourselves? Let us then begin
the breeding up of our stock, so that we may be able to raise both the number and the kind
of work stock we need. The accompanying illustration shows a Percheron stallion, a fine
type of :what is j probably the best breed for grading tip our native stock. Try raising some
colts ihis spring and see if it doesn't pay. You will not only receive a handsome return
from the col's, if you feed and care for them properly, but by growing more stock you will
Sjnj C ae toj cufrivate more land, and to cultivate it (better, thus increasing your yields
and decreasing the cost of production a consummation Idevoutly to be desired.