The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-04-15
STOCK AND FooD TO FEED THEM

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ary, just one year ago today, |
picked a square yard of burr clover
and had it weighed and analyzed.
Calculated to an acre, the above
ground portions contained as much
nitrogen as 1000 pounds of cotton
seed meal would furnish, and
enough dry food to support a
thousand-pound COW eighty days.
Another experiment with hairy
vetch, which we like better than
all new crops tried, we found as
much nitrogen per acre as 100
pounds Of cotton seed meal would
furnish, and enough dry matter to
feed COW one hundred and thirty
days. We can keep our lands busy
twelve months in the year grow
ing fertilizers and feed crops; we
can grow the fertilizers in winter
for our regular spring, and feed
our stock to boot, As to whether
we can grow as fine cattle as the
North, there is considerable doubt
in the minds of some of our people.
But ! have no doubt; in fact, |
know we can do it. For some
years We have grown hogs to
weigh 200 pounds at six months
with an ease and cheapness you
cannot do in the North. Our green
winter crops we find make from
one-halt to three-quarters of the
food Of hogs and costs nothing.
Our people are everywhere admit
ting that we can raise the hogs,
but there is yet doubt about rails
ing the large quick maturing, high
priced beef steer. But this can be
done. Last fall we weighed a
number of spring calves that had
run with their mothers, and there
was not one that did not grow his
two pounds a day all through the
summer. | wrote to o number OF
St Louis and Chicago live stock
commission companies and asked
them what good, well marked
grade Hereford, Shorthorn or Alb
erdeen Angus calves eight months
old and weighing 500 pounds,
would bring on those markets,
November 18th. whon the qQaran=
line against our cattle is raised.
They invariably replied, il they
show good blood, they will bring
five cents pound to 60 to farms
as feeders, Just think of it! An
eight months old calf bringing
$500. Why, our two-year. .olds,
the way we grow them, bring $500
and $50 head. We knock them
in the head with q churn dasher.
They get such setback that they
are not worth as much at two years
old as they would have been at
two months old. Although we
have been warned to tell folks that
we are prospecting down here,
| believe | will tell you little So
cret; we have q breed OF hogs down
here that can eat out of jugs.
| wish to give you little more
of my experience and ! am done.
We have got the whole face of the
earth covered with green crops on
the college farm, principally turf
oats and hairy vetch. We never
have to resow these crops when
once started, and the vetch is grad
ually whipping the oats out, taking
field after field.
We have in all now about 900
acres clothed ia green, We be-
Iieye IN a green crop to keep our
lands from washing and teaching
during our warm wet winters,
feeling sure that these causes have
done five times more to weer oar
lands than all the clrops ever remoy-
ed from them;
/ believe by the help of farmers
institutes, by the help of our sta
tons and colleges, by the help of
the department publications, which
to me are indispensable, | believe
we will work out our great indus
trial problems. 0qr people have
met great problems and great per-
lis as bravely as any people ever
did. am proud to bear the name
of hero who died defending one
of the approaches to this splendid
title. believe we will prove
equal to the present emergency,
and that we can build up better
homes, and better times in this