The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-03-04
CAMPBELL BROWN. Spring Hill, Tenn

use for the heavy breed of cattle, nor
for large draft horses. Nor do you
want many hogs there, for they can
not make much use of such pasture
IanI as you will have. Sheep will fill
the bill great deal better On rich
level laud grow large beeves, fine
dairy stock, heavy draft horses ana
good hogs. Above all things, do not
waste such land as the latter on scrub
! stock. If you do you have no bust
ness to have the land.
Are you intending to raise any colt
the coming season? If so, let us ask
you one question: Which will pay
best, to pay So service fee and raisr
$75 horse. or to pay a $25 service
Zee and raise a $500 horse? Your
profit will depend almost wholly up
on the way in which you answer this.
We know one man who has answe- ed
it to his own complete satisfaction by
breeding every year, for six years
past, his pair of heavy farm mares to
= good CIydesdale stallion. AS re-
suit he has sold six colts for 81 200,
and has four yet on hand, worth half
AS much more. Meantime the mares
have fully paid their way by doing
the farm work. This is not, or should
not be, an exceptional instance.
Just exactly this course is within
reach of every farmer who has a pair
of good mares to start with.
If you buy that new drill, gang
pillow, mower, self-binder or manure
spreader this season, and give your
note at 6, or s pei cent. Interest, you
may perhaps pull through all right
and make money out OF the invest
ment, but how would it be il the rate
OF interest was 10 per cent. higher?
Would you buy? Probably you
would say you could not pay it, but
this is precisely what you do when
you leave that implement unhoused
aud exposed to all changes and in
clemencies of the weather. You pay
this additional interest In the direct
of the machine, and a.
much more in another way, for II
will never do as good WORK after il
has begun to wear out. 1t becomes
rusty, dull, loose in the joints, the
wood work warps, and il is Il general
Iy unsatisfactory thing to use and you
soon begin to wish you had not
bought it; and there is the note
drawing interest.
1t is expensive work to keep and
feed stock through the winter, at the
best, but by a systematic attention
To their needs the cost may be reduced |
to the minimum. II the stock is
once accustomed to looking for lis
food at certain time the animal.
grow restless and uneasy whenever |
they have to wait beyond that tine
With dairy cows this interfereS win |
the secretion of milk. With fatten-
ing stock 1t interteres with digestion |
and Interrupts the steady ana con-
linuous laying on Of flesh. HORSES
become bad tempered and wear out
themselves and their stable floor.
Consider that il is your business to do
certain things AT certain times, and
let nothing Interfere with its per-
rormauce. Remember that you your
self sometimes get restless when dim
uer is not ready just on time.
The commercial creamery has been
Of great value to many farm regions
and to many dairymen. We have no
desire to withhold from it the COM
meudatIon which is justly due, but
We do not like to see it too greatly |
exalted above the private dairy. The |
private dairy Will for lOug time in
the future continue to produce the |
great bulk Of our butter, as it also
doe. anu Will produce the very best.
Ii only those VINO make butter in the
nome dairy would educate them
,elVes up more z, .Ierally to the re-
4
,uey would not only occasionally pro-
luce the best, but wound also UNIFORM
~ produce AS good al article as the
:rvumeries do, the. best profit would
Je found in continuing IL as home
industry. There is no one point cou-
lected with our farm management in
Shlcu We have greater room for inn
than in the conduct of he
nome dairy, nor one in which we con-
identity look for greater progress IN
he near future.
We do not believe that the average
armer who keeps cows principally
or the milk product can ofteu afford
% raise to maturity all tue calves
hat they bring. The heifers from
he best cows should, of course, be
Kept, aud the milking herd recruited
rom the choicest OF these each year,
he others being fed for the butcher
.G the earliest maturity to which .
hey can be brought by rapid push
ng; but it is only the farmer who ,
Ias outside range, or land in excess I
t his needs for tillage, that should ]
ndeaVor to raise all his calves. i
When one must use land for pastur-
ge that might otherwise be used for 8
IIIage there is great danger that /
lore head will be kept than eau be @
ell fed. That must be guarded b
gainst and the number kept down to 4
here they can all be cared for in q
lch manner that there will never