The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-12-15


Gle From an Intelligent Writer.
(W L. Jones in the December "cu!:ivaor.'D
Last month attention was called TO
the importance OF supplying animals,
in winter, with warm water and aalm
food. 1t was suggested that water be
brought from springs, in underground
pipes, directly into the stalls, when
ever this was practicable. But as this
cannot be done on many farms. we
suggest another arrangement. which
is practicable on every tarm. y force
pump may be placed III the barn or
stable with pipe running from il 10 2
we'll near By. With such arrange
ment, the farmer without exposure,
and without taking his animals from
their stalls, could supply them with
fresh, warm water, by pipes running
from the pump to drinking vessels in
each stall. The pipe, leading to the
well, should be sunk deep enough IN
the ground TO escape freezing III the
coolest weather. How quickly, how
easily, how pleasantly could stock be
supplied with fresh, warm water Ill
winter, and cool, fresh water III sum-
mer. The first outlay would be soon
returned in the saving Of time and
labor in taking animals in and out Of
their stalls. Irrcgularity III feeding
and watering lays the foundation for
much of the sickness Of stock. Ar
range everything, therefore, about
barn and stable with reference 10 great
est convenience and dispatch. The
casters thing can be done, the more
certainty of its being done.
Rainy weather usually sets i'll this
month and continues during tie Win
ter. If stock has been allowed the
run of the fields up to this time, stop
it at once. There is no practice in our
farming more short-siehted than allow
ing stock to tramp the wet fields during
winter. Pretty muc! everything Of
value as food ilas been cleaned a.
ready; the stock will get little or
nothing, but they will damage the land
greatly. The land is entitled 10 all the
debris Of the crop. Don't be so short
sighted as to tGr TO gc; everything out
of it at once. Remember the story Of
the goose that laid the golden egg.
Moreover, it is true economy, as well
as kindness to stock, to keep them out
of the cold rains. The little Gleanings
thev get will not produce more animal
heat than that which exposure TO cold
rains will take from their bodies. In
other words, the animals will gain
nothing, the fields will lose their vege-
table matter and the soil its i,riabili,y.
In all the more thickly settled portions
of the country we have passed beyond
the mixed paStora! and farming state,
and have reached the farming state
proper. Our policy now is 10 provide
Special pastures and raise food for ali
the stock kept ON the farm. This must
become, as much rs any other, an Or
ganized, well-devcloped part of our
farru economy. See how readily and
quickly it assumes this shape on the
stock farms scattered over the coun-
trv. Owners OF Jerseys-who attach
value to their stock-vcry soon have
good pastures and Unlimited supplies
of forage. 1t only requires that one
should make up his mind to have them.
With Bermuda grass, red, white and
burr clovers, ;ucern and Spanish clo-
yer, orchard, herds and blue grasses,
barley, rye, German miilet, sorghum,
pea vines and drilled corn: why should
one ever be at a loss in providing for
his stock2
With so many available crops, sup
plemented by all unlimited supply Of
cotton seed and mild, genial climate
superadded. why should not Southern
farmers raise more stock: Why should
amule or horse ever be brought from
the north side of the Ohio river? Why
should hundreds OF tons Of butter
and oleomargarine from the North
be sold in the South every year:
Why work ourselves to death 10
raise cotton to buv horses, mules,
bacon, flour, lard. meal, glucose Or
starch syrup when every one Of these,
except the glucose, which can be sup
planted by sorghum syrup, can be
raised at home without the slightest
difficulty, Why play into the hands
Of middlemen, railroads, banks, spec
ulators, etc., to say nothing Of the de-
pendence upon the unsteady, unreliable
laborers in our midst? You say cotton
is always salable, always brings cash.
SO does first-class butter, so does
bacon, so does lard, so does q good
mule or horse. jersey butter finds
ready sale simply because it is good
butter. The owners OF such stock
make butter in q buSiness-like way :;
they have good milk-houscs and
proper arrangements for cooling and
keeping milk; water power or some
other mechanical device for churning.
They do not lose patience in cool wealth
er and pour hot water in the chErn;
they know that slow churning makes
the most and the best butter. They
know that large feeds Of cotton seed
spoil butter, and they feed something
else. If all Of our farmers handled
their milk and butter IN like manner,
Northern butter would soon be driven
out Of the market. LIN the oltIcn time,
the little Surplus butter on our farms
was regarded rs q tritle, and little
attention given it. Hence, we have
fallen into careless ways and methods
let us change them. Let every
farmer arrange to make some butter
for market--handle it properly, make
its quality good and its appearance
attractive and he Will always find
ready sale at good nr..,ycs.
In this connection attention may be
called to the importance of improving
our native stock. This can be most