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A farm and Home Weekly for the CaroVmas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. P
Vd. XXIV. lb. 35. IIALEIGH. II. C, OCTOBER 7, 1CCD. :j'jv;;;:; .Y7c::;'aT(
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The
Feeding
of Beef Cattle as a Guide Post to " $500 More a Year Farming."
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TIT IS NOT UNCOMMON to hear from or of some Southern farm
I er who has figured up the prices of feed stuffs and the money
B obtained from the celling of beef catde, compared the two, and
1 come to the conclusion that it does not pay to make beef in the
South. Now, it is true that, as a rule, the beef steer will not chow the
same notable profit, by his production of food, over the cost of the feeds U,.4;4 a?li;; ; 'ri:-i v: ;.: ' '. :: ? iCJ
be eats, as wiu cne aauy cow or tne nog; out tne men who jump to trie
conclusion that it does not pay to feed beef catde nearly always forget
to consider the very great difference a short term of years will make in
the productiveness of their farms under the system of selling off the
rough feeds grown on it as compared with feeding them on the farms
and thus turning a large per cent of their fertilizing elements back to
the soil. - - .y yV-: ' '':V-X
We have mentioned before the old cattleman who, in reply to a
similar otjection to the feeding of beef steers, said that he had never
known a man who fed good cattle year after year to die poor or leave
a poor farm. And it is safe to say that if any reader knows of such a
case, it was the mun who was poor end not the land, and the poverty
of the man was in spite of, and not the result of, his feeding operations.
It requires special equipment and specially trained labor to make a
8uccec3 of dsixying, and the hocr cannot censuzne all of , the . cottonseed
meal or much of the rough feeds produced on the 'Southern farms.
For this reason the beef steer has a wide field of usefulness in the South,
and will handle these rough feeds, with enough concentrates to make a
properly balanced ration, so as to give the farmer the greatest obtaina
ble profit from them, y
; To get this .profit, however, the farmer must have good catde, must
use judgement in their feeding, must save the manure they make, and
must market them to best advantage,
. Steers of the type shown here are selling in Chicago for overr8
cents a pound, and there is money in making beef at such prices as that.
We have the feedstuffs and the climate for profitable beef produc
tion ; but we need a better grade of cattle, better ideas of feeding, and
freedom from the cattle tick so that our catde can have free access'to
the great markets. All these things we can have ; and all of them we
must have before we make our farming the profitable business it should
be. "No money in beef cattle, with hundreds of thousands of tons of
com stover going to waste every year, with millions of tons of cotton
seed meal used for fertilizer, with a few cqrubby catde roaming over
tick-infested fields grown up in weeds and briers and bushes, and with
multiplied thousands of acres of land growing poorer every year? Compare that condition with those found in the sections where
farmers raise and feed good beef cattle, and decide which is the more profitable method toaadopt
(Courtesy AtHsruooii-Angus Breeders' Asso,
A PRIZE-WINNINQ POLUED ANGUS STEER. "
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The Things You yish to Know.
E HAVE AGREED to answer all inquiries
by personal letter, and we are going to do
; it because we want the lnauiries, and It
gives us pleasure and profit to answer them ; but
.we want to ask our readers to help us to prevent
the necessity of doing the same thing over and
over again. For instance, we are asked questions
about crimson clover that have been answered
fully in our columns within the last two mouths.
We wish all our readers would file their papers.
It is also a good plan to mark such articles as
you may probably want to refer to again.
We wish we received more inquiries than we
do, for from these we are enabled to learn the
needs sf our readers, but when it Is easy to obtain
the information wanted from a recent issue of the
paper, it is to the interest of all concerned that
the. paper be consulted before going to the trou
ble of writing us for a personal reply by mail.
We want every farmer in our territory to feel
free to write us for information, whether he be a
subscriber or not, but we do not want to answer
again and again questions that have been already
answered in our columns. The reason we do not
want to do this Is because we want the time to
give to answering new questions, better and more
fully. v;,
Remember, we are always at your service; but
before asking a question you should see if an an
swer has not already been given In the" paper.
You do not profit by the paper as you should If
you do not study it; and you do not add to its
efficiency by requiring us to do unnecessary work.
Index to This Issue.
A Special for the Farm Girls and Boys. ... . . 10
Cheap f Pork From Pasture Crops. . . . . . . ... 13
Cotton; Seed Selection J. ........ . . . .... 2 and 0
Don't Fail to Select Seed Corn in the Field. .
Farm and Garden Work for October. . . . .
$500 More a Year Farming: By Feeding Beef
Cattle and Saving the Manure. . . . . . . . .
Ginners May Help Get Better Cotton Seed. .
Hints and Helps for Wash-Day. . . . . . .
How Tile Drainage Will Help. ............
October Poultry Notes. 16
Prizes ; for North Carolina Farmers. , . 15
Sow i Crimson Clover Now. .... ...... . . . : . 4
Spare Medicines and Save the Stock. ....... 12
Twelve Things to Do This Month. ........ 8
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