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& A FARM AND HOME WEEKLY FOR THE CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, AND'GEORGIA.
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Vol. XXIV. No. 13.
RALEIGH, N. C, MAY 6, 1909.
Weekly: $1 a Year.
Better Stock as a Guide Post to " $500
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'HE DIFFERENCE between good stock and scrub stock is the dif
ference between the animal which is adapted to a particular pur
pose and the one which is not. This is why the pure bred ani
mal is ordinarily so much superior to the mongrel. The one has in
herited tendencies, the result of generations of selected ancestry, to de
velop a certain form or certain qualities ; the other has inherited, in
varying degrees, so many conflcting lines of blood that there is no spe
cial fitness for any particular purpose. !
J These two pictures, for example, show the widely different forms
and characteristics of the dairy-bred and the beef-bred cow. Each is
the result of years of careful selection toward a particular type and for
i an especial purpose; and the qualities of the two are absolutely incom
patible. A cross between a Shorthorn and a Jersey would likely be
deficient in both beef- and milk-producing qualities, even though each
parent was an individual of the highest quality. It is so with all kinds
of stock. Our nondescript hogs, unprofitable cattle and sorry, make
shift horses are, for the most part, the result of haphazard and indis
criminate breeding.
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decide just what you wish your stock to be and do and then to be-
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gin breeding them toward that particular type and for that end. There
will now and then be fqund mongrel animals that are good animals, and
pure breds that are scrubs; but these are the exceptions and not the
rule, and we must be guided by rules rather than by exceptions.
l The dairy-bred steer will jriot feake as much beef or beef of as good
quality as will the beef-bred steer ;j the beef-bred cow can not compete
with the dairy-bred co wj in milk ofj butter production; the half-wild hog
of the woods will not lay on flesh as cheaply as tle hog that is bred to
make meat ; you can not expect speed from a Percheron, or size and
strength from a light-weight trjotterl I
How foolish it is then to keep on trying to make beef from steers
with' strong strains of dairy blood in their veins, or to produce milk
with cows that have as much beef blood as dairy blood! And can we
expect to make cheap pork from? a hog whose inheritance is speed
rather than the ability toj take on fat, or to get horses big enough to
handle improved farm machinery & breeding to little stallions of no
particular type ? ? j,-
Scrub stock means scrub farm: ng, and because we have had scrub
stock is one reason why thej profits from our farming have been so
small. Is it not time to jchange ? i 1 .
Index to I this Issue.
Dainty Dishes for Sick Folks, Mrs. W. N. Hutt
8500 More a Year Fanning: How to Make It-
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Howl, to Care for Young Turkeys, Robt. S.
Taylor . . .
Kill (irss Before It Comes Up, C. T. Ames. . .
May Taim and Garden Work, W. F. Massey. .
1 rG Profit from Four Acres of Peanuts, John
B. Lewis. . .
Preparing CI ver Land for Corn, W. F. Massey
Some Home Hospital Fixtures
Sorghum for Stock Feeding. ..............
South Carolina's New Stocjc Law .
purs for Poultrymen, Mrs. J. C. Deaton. . . .
i S o Demonstration Work and Its Lessons, W.
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'Qie Legbmes for TTs to Grow
The Peach Tree Borer, A. F. Conradi
What Are You Doing About It?
What's the Matter With Wake County? Cooper
Curtice ..........
What's the News? . ...
Why , Not Use the Road Drag?. ...........
Why the Stockman Makes More Money Than
the Cropper, A. L. French. .............
With Poultry and Cows, Mrs. C. S. Everts. .
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Three Features of This Issue.
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OES STOCIvi-RAISING pay in the Sout?
Well, that depends more than anything
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else. we imagine, on the man who is ra
ing the stock. A man who has good stock arid
knows how to handle them, has in the South tjie
finest field open any were. Such a man is our Mr.
A. L. French; and to those who still cling to the
idea that they can afford to raise cotton wi :h
which to buy their mules and their meat, his fine
letter this week is a fearless challenge. "I c,p
show you," says Mr. French, "that there is mony
in stock raising, in the South, and can name
hundred men who can do the same thing." Suqh
a positive statement is worth whole volumes Of
doubts or objections or theories.
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Our special message this week, however, is the
difference between good stock and poor the di 'in
ference in type, the difference in productive .ca
pacity, the difference in the profits that will eont
to you from the feed they eat and the care you
devote to them. While the prosperous agricu
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turj.l sections are the stock-raising sections, the
most prosperous agricultural sections are those
that have the best grade of stock. Those striking
examples of actual differences on the next page
should set 1 you to thinking seriously along this
line
T3 haye good stock we must have good crops,
for the ;wo go together. So don't fail to study
Prol'esso r Massey's "Farm Work for May," and
his comments on the demonstration work. This
is tie season when cultivation is the pressing
businessj onl the farm, and you cannot afford to
miss reading- and , then putting into practice
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land everywhere it is better to kill the
grass before it comes up, and in practically every
case
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has been planted is under tlie tool shed.
That
place for the turning plow after the crop
here is need for putting still, greater en
ergy into our educational crusade in the South is
abudanjfly indicated by a school census just tak
en in Georgia. This shows that there are 84,380
illiterate' children over ten years of age in the
State, and that the decrease in illiteracy for the
past
five
years has been only 1.6 per cent.
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