The Mena star., 1899-01-04

requirements, and that can be pro- duced at good profit by majority of cotton growers. Experiments show that corn is not as essential for mak- ing pork and beef as it is generally be- lieved to be, and therefore competition from sections having cheap corn can be easily met.
 To begin the production of pork as a money crop only few dollars capital is required, not more experience than the farmer already possesses, and ten months is sufficient time to grow and put 275 pound product on the mar ket The demand for it is constant, and there is ready market for it To- callv or convenient in St Louis or Kansas City, as there is for cotton.
 The cattle and hog industry of Ar kausas at the present time is not novelty. There are more cattle in Arkansas than in Tennessee, or any other Southern state, except Texas Missouri and Kentucky. The number of cattle Tn 1890 was 992, ,6S9, and the number of hogs was 1, 505, 214.
 The health of the hog is as good as it is in any of the pork producing states of the West and North, and if the hogs in Arkansas were given the E in those states there would perhaps be less loss from disease than in those states.
 The chief feature in the pork expert ments was to determine the the best succession of crops that hogs could gather themselves, and it so happens that the fattening crops that have been found best adapted for this purpose cannot be grown as we'll in the North and West, making another advantage for the cotton farmer besides that of q mild winter climate In the experi- ments of beef production the same idea of using such crops as the cattle could economically gather themselves was adhered to as much as possible, but it could not be carried as complete ly as with pigs Another important feature of the experiments is that the crops or foods that have proven best and cheapest for producing pork and beef are gatherers of nitrogen from the atmosphere, and therefore are soil improvers for succeeding crops of cot ton.
 The cost per pound for producing pork to weigh 250 o 275 pounds at ten months of age on land estimated at rental of S2.7a per acre, was 115 cents In farm practice the cost would not exceed 1 4 cent per pound, and often less.
 The quantity of corn required in pro- ducing pork at that cost does not ex ceed five bushels per head, and that quantity is needed mainly for harden ing for market. All the foods, except the corn, used by the pigs to produce 275 pounds of pork in ten months from birth are gathered by the pigs.
 Red clover, alfalfa and crimson clo- yer, according as each is best adapted to the particular soil, are the best foods from birth of pigs March l, until sor- ghum is ready for feeding.
 Sorghum, including stalk and grain, Is the best summer food and until pea nuts and chufas are ready for feeding.
 Peanuts ;assiit, and chi eli are tine best and cheapest fattening foods to succeed sorghum.
 There should then follow short per iod of corn feeding, to prepare for market or slaughtering.
 The gains of steers fed on cotton seed while grazing off cowpea hay and corn stalks. after the corn. but not the fodder, was gathered, has been de- termined.
 As the cotton grower is a producer of cotton seed, it's fattening value as compared with corn and cotton meal is important.
 At the present market price cotton seed is of more value for producing beef than the value received when sold as seed.
 The manure resulting from feeding cotton seed when protected from rains will largely increase a succeeding crop of cotton, ordinarily as much as the seed would sell for.
 1 An inexpensive stack frame for cur ing and storing cowpea or clover hay cut in rainy weather or cut and stored green, has been devised.
 The increase in the yield of cotton grown on soil where peanuts, clovers, cowpeas, etc, were grown and fed for pork and beef has been from 20 to 35 per cent the increase of cotton costing only the picking, With wheat the ir- crease has been from 100 to 300 per cent. With corn the increase has been from 25 to 75 per cent
 Thus the production of pork and beef yields two profits, one from the pork and beef, and one from the in- creased fertility of the soil
 Copies of the bulletins containing these experiments can be had free upon application by any one desiring them.
 Future results will be published as fast as obtained.
 Woman's Advancement.
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