The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-03

tie lambs beating out their helpless lives
in piteOus appeals for care; hogs penned
up in open rail pens with only the snow
for a bed and the dripping clouds for a
shelter with the merciless winds actually
biting their tails and ears off; faithful
horses and mules blanketed only with ice,
Quivering in helpless agony. these were ,he
conditions on every hand. Enough val
liable stocks was thus needessly sacrilic-
ed the value of which would have school
ed all the children, cared for all the or
phans. and paid all the preachers in the
country one year.
But the children will so without educa-
ton, the orphans without care, and the
preachers without pay, because the times
are hard. But when are the times going
TO be better under such a state of misman-
agement and criminal neglect on the part
of the farmers themselves Who is to look
after the farmers interest if they them
selves refuse to do so? have long con-
tended that the neglect of proper care and
management of the live stock, has done
more 10 impoverish Southern farms and
farmers than all other influences combin-
ed. We talk about the oppression of con-
solidated wealth, of corrupt legislation and
the like but these influences all pale into
vanishing shadows compared to the con-
slant, never-ending loss which the farmer
calls down on himself by wilfully refusing
TO care for his own interest 1t
is useless and unreasonable to
| curse the government for the extra dol
lar added TO the farmers expenses in the
way of taxes for eXtrayagant public serv-
| ice while the farmer himself adds
| hundreds of dollars to his expenses, by
refusing to attend to his own business,
( and care for what he already has. Nearly
all Southern people think that because
| snow does not cover the earth much in
| the South, therefore, stock need little or
| no shelter But both experience and OBJ
servation have long since convinced me
| that protection of stock is as necessary in
| the South as elsewhere. Every intelligent
person knows the difference between dry
| and wet cold, and just here is where the
difference lies between the North and the
! far South in the matter of climate. Take
| louisiana for instance, and here from
| November to April the bright, open days
| are the exception, while The cloudy and
! rainy constitute the rule. l do not think
| I hazard a particle of truth when l say
! that here, during the average winter,
three-fourths of the time is cloudy and
rainy, and cold rains at that, barely above
| freezing point, often sleeting and raining
at the same time. Now, where stock al
ready thin in flesh are subjected to such
weather, with a scant supply of food, IS
| il a matter of wonder to any reasonable
| person that so many of the poor crea lures
| utterly perish? But the worst part OF ms
| whole business is, that it is absolutely UNI
| nccessary-a wiiful neglect on the part Of
the farmers TO apply the means of pre-
vention which nature has so abundantiy
supplied on nearly all Southern farms
material for building sheds is TO be had
with hardly any expense except labor,
and all farmers have plenty of otherwise
idle time that could well and probably
be spent in erecting sheds, composed Of
poles and boards gotten from the forest.
These rough sheds, with a little care, can
be made quite comfortable and will serve
the double purpose of protection to the
stock and saving of feed, and will fur
Their prove profitable to the farmer by
enabling him to better save and care for
the manure which his farm surely needs
and must have if success IS ever attained.
But talking politics. chewing tobacco,
drinking whisky and cursing The mig
gers" occupy the time, and both the farm
and the farmer goes to ruin. When win
the end of these things be?