The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-20

Everywhere in the world, says the Ma
tional Stockman, it is the fact that where
nature does most for man, man does the
least for himself. Our Southern climate
is more mild than that of England or
Northern Europe 1t viii average in tenn
perature very nearly that of Spain and
Italy, and this climate is not only suffi-
GENTLY mild for outdoor feeding every day
In the winter, but the warmth enables
the soil to yie-d perennial pasture, which
in reality costs the shepherd nothing
while the early breeding of the ewes brings
lambs before Christmas without even this
least interference of the shepherd 20
hasten the breeding time of the ewes. The
fleece grows as quickly in the winter as II
the summer. and thus the yield of wool
will average one-fourth over that of The
Northern flock
The South is enormously rich in every
kind of feed for sheep. Every kind OF
grass grows luXuriant1y in the warm rich
soil. Several species which exceed in value
any of the cultivated kinds grow as weeds,
covering the uncultivated land with the
very best pasture. The common winter
feeding crops, as rape, turnips, crimson
clover, oats, rye, are grown with ease,
thus filing the artificial feeding season of
the North with a full rotation for out,
door feeding, and thus no hand-feediug Is
required. And the ewes, forced by the
advanced natural season, bring their
lambs in time to De fully fed for the North
are still nursed by the ewes.
This advantage of season is an enor-
nous premium to the Southern shepherds,
who may rear lambs practically without
| cost, and the fact with the cost of feed
ing returned with an ample bonus in the
| Improvement of the land by this culture
| The mere fact that outdoor feeding is pos
| siple on a large variety Of green crops
| which not only cost nothing, but pay a
large premium in the improved condition
| of the soil-of Itself tells the whole story,
and it sufficient for the practical man to
form an opinion as to the natural advan-
tages of the South for the rearing of
| sheep.
-Four thousand years ago in similar ell
mates to the Gulf states, shepherding was
| the chief industry. Jacobs sons were
| shepherds. Shepherds were keeping these
| focks by night in Palestine "a similar eli
mate to ours) when there came a glad
| messag Peace on earth and good will
to men"
The South is beginning to awaken Il
| the fact of the adaptation of this climate
and soil to the sheep industry, and would
| gladly change the production of cot ton 20
mutton and wool. but are favored 90 will,
| sheep killing legislators-men who prefer
| dogs to sheep, and refuse to tax the worth
| less ours that kiln the sheep, 81 a head
and thus tax them out of existence The
lawmakers should do more-they should
| cut of tax on dogs remunerate the
owner for every sheep killed or manned
| by a dog, or. what would be better. pass
the English law requiring the owner OF
! the dog killing or manning a sheep, &c
| make full reDaration to the owner.
| Low-priced cotton, impoverished land
! frosts and drouths should lend the South.
ern farmer into Industries that are rol
| overdone, or subject to these drawbacks
and that will reclaim their lands and also
| to elect men to make laws that are no,
| destructive to their interests. The South
Is crushed with laws dlscouraging produc-
| tive enterprises.