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Thursday, June 27, 1912.] THE CAROLINA UNION PARMER Page Three possibiijIties of goat rais ing. Five hundred million goat skins have been imported into the United States during the last decade, and the money sent out of the country in payment therefor amounts to $250,- 000,000. The figures of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Com merce and Labor, show that the goat skins imported into the United States have ranged in value from 500,000,000, is extremely suggestive in conjunction slightly more than $250,000,000. The number of goats whose skins are represented by this $250,000,000 is approximately 500,- 000,000 since the average value of the goat skins now being imported is, according to the figures of the Bu reau of Statistics, about 50 cents each, the valuation being those in the country from which exported to the United States. This statement of the large value ($250,000,000) of goat skins import ed during the last decade, together with that indicating that the number of goats which this $250,000,000 rep resents, is approximately 500,000,- 000, is extremely suggestive in con junction with a statement recently supplied to the Bureau of Manufac tures, Department of Commerce and Labor, by the United States Consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico, from which country large numbers of these skins are imported, in which he says that the meat of the goat, which is used as food and found very similar to that of the sheep, is of even greater value than that of the hides, and that the goats are grown in large num bers upon lands not available for agricultural purposes. “The dry plains of Nuevo Leon,” he adds, ‘‘with scant growth of brush, are able to support large flocks of goats, though these same plains will not produce corn, cane, or grass, unless water is supplied for irrigation. . . . Mountain lands and rough, broken sections of foothill lands may be se cured for about $1 per acre, and each acre will, in the moist regions, support five or six goats The steep mountain sides, the deep gorges, the narrow valleys covered everywhere with exuberant vegeta tion afford congenial feeding grounds for goats The value of the &oat depends upon three things: Meat, tallow, and the skin. The mat ter of fresh meat in the farming dis tricts of the hot country is greatly simplified by the breeding of goats and the flesh alone would make it a profitable industry.” The above statement indicating that large additions to the meat sup ply of the United STates may be grown upon lands not available for general agricultural purposes, to gether with the statement of the Bu reau of Statistics that the skins of 50,000,000 goats are imported annu ally into the United States, coupled with the further well known fact that the meat of goats is now being Sold for food in the markets of many cities of the United States, offers an interesting suggestion as to the pos sibilities of large additions to the meat supply of the United States and the retention at home of the $25,- 000,000 per annum now being sent nut of the country for the purchase nf goat skins. British India supplies about one- third the entire importation of goat skins into the United States, that country having been credited with 15,000,000 skins out of a total im portation of 43,000,000 in the fiscal year 1911. The next largest impor tation of that year were C,666,000 tcom China, 3,000,000 from Mexico, ^75,000,000 from Aden, Arabia; ^25,000,000 from England, 1,500,000 from British East Africa. 2,000.000 t'‘nm Brazil, 133,000,000 from Ar gentina, 1,000,000 from Venezuela ‘inout 1.000,000 each from France Pud Russia, and two-thirds of a mil lion from Turkey in Asia. Consider able amounts are also imported from Turkey, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy, Peru, the Dutch East Indies and French Africa. The following statement, furnish ed by hte American Consul quoted above and printed in the Daily Con sular and Trade Report by the Bu reau of Manufactures of the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor, will serve as an illustration of how the business of goat raising is conduct ed in Mexico (the money values are assumed to represent Mexican pesos, one of which equals 49.8 cents in American currency: ‘‘In 1904 the manager of the farm received 66,000 goats, including large and small, at a valuation of $1.50 each, equal to $99,000. From the produce of these he sold, during nine months of 1904 and the years 1905 and 1906, 50,000 head at $5 each, equal to $250,000, and had, at the close of 1906, 88,000 head on the farm, being 22,000 more than he started with. The result was, count ing the value of the 22,000 increase at $1.50 each with the foregoing sales, the investment of $99,000 pro duced in less than three years $283,- 000 besides the original stock of 66,- 000 goats was intact.”—Missouri Journal of Agriculture. SELLING COTTON DIRECT TO ENGLAND. Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.—Jon athan Edwards. Mr. Editor:—I wish to call the at tention of the readers of the Union Farmer back to the article by Mr. Wm. Whittam, of Manchester, Eng land, in the issue pf June 6th, on selling cotton direct to the manufac turers. The South should eliminate the big unnecessary expense of haul ing cotton, and it is up to the pro ducer to devise and establish the proper means to overthrow this old expensive custom of selling and adopt direct dealing. The warehouse sys tem well equipped and managed is the necessary step. Every cotton growing county in North Carolina should at once organize a warehouse company and build substantial ware houses to take care of as much as one-third of the cotton produced in the county. Our county has made the start. We have a very desirable site in Kin ston, with one section of a brick warehouse built that will hold 800 bales of cotton, and 1600 bales by stacking it; and two more sections of equal size to be built as soon as prac ticable. With the warehouses and a good, reliable grader with reliable management, the system will natur ally evolve, and confidence and co operation will follow in its path, and the cotton trade can be thrown out of its present defective channel and an important reform set up that will bring justice to the producer of the staple and advance the business in terest of every phase of southern life. Depositors in our warehouse have realized from $10 to $15.00 per bale by storing and holding. I want the county Unions of every county to get busy and provide substantial warehouses. One Union man held 130 bales about three months and realized $1,500 more than if he had sold in December. The only power to resist these devastations in prices that come to us every fall, is the Far mers’ Union, and the time to act is ^t)W. “Never grow weary in well doing.” Much is involved in this phase of cotton marketing. Study it closely. WM. B. DALE, Secretary and Treasurer of Far mers’ Union Warehouse Company. Kinston, N. C. It may be thou dost not love thy neighbor; it may be thou thinkest only how to get from him, how to gain by him. How lonely, then, must thou be! How shut up in thy pov erty-stricken room, with the bare walls of thy selfishness and the hard couch of thy unsatisfaction!—George MacDonald. ‘‘Contentment is less an act than a habit of life. The possession of it does more than affect our conduct in a single instance; it alters our atti tude toward all the tribulations that may come to us.” Local Secretaries and Agents, Attention! How many of your members have allowed their subscription to expire? How many have never taken the paper at all? Get a hold on them now, while we are giving away FREE to each new or renewal subscriber, an Excelsior Wonder Knife worth far more than the subscription price. Send us five yearly subscribers, and get the paper and knife for yourself FREE. Ihis offer will not last long. Use this blank. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER Raleigh, N. C. Gentlemen: Enclosed you will find. . ^ > V I For the following subscriptions: Check, Money Order, Cash or Stamps for $ NAME POSTOFFICE R. F. D. No. 1 Amount • Yours fraternally, P County eigh checks, money orders, etc., payable to The Carolina N. C. Union Farmer, Ral- I 'I 1; ■! I:! I'd
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