The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-07-31

stock OF that quality. You sav Won
are too far from Raleigh to make
money selling butter The best but
ter that comes to Raleigh is made
away out west, and one lady in West
ern North Carolina sells her butter in
Raleigh, though she is over 300 miles
away. II YOU learn dairying right
and make gilt edged article there
VIII be no difficulty in making a mar
ket Tor 1t. But there is no market for
any Dut the finest. and no one should
Try butter making till they are pre-
pared to make the best
L have just returned from a Farm
ers Institute up near Pilot Mountain
III Stokes county. What struck me
most there was the fact that in n
country evidently intended naturally
Tor grass and stock, the farmers are
keeping hardly any cattle, and grow
ing no grass except the natural grass
on the bottom lands. They are grow
ing little patches Of tobacco and lit
tie patches of corn and wheat. and
but little forage on their uplands. On
my way there by rail | passed the
fine farms belonging to Messrs. Duke
and Col. Carr. These farms are being
runs as grain and stock farms and
are being rapidly improved in produc-
tiveness, and are becoming model
farms, and an object lesson to all who
pass. But there is one lesson the
tobacco farmers should learn there
] have never heard Of Mr. Duke or
Col. Carr planting any tobacco on
their fine farms Mr.. Duke evidently
knows that he can buy the tobacco
he wants more cheaply than he can
grow it, and he does not plant to-
thinking along this line in Granville,
wrote me lately that he has found
that he can make more money raising
and curing bacon for the men who are
growing five cent tobacco than he
can make out Of tobacco, and he is
raising pigs instead Of tobacco. The
hills Of StOk q. and Sulry are we'll
adapted to grass and forage, and also
to the production of apples, and the
apple crop, handled there On a com
merciai scale and marketed in the
proper manner should be great
source of revenue. But the varieties
grown there now. and handled as
they are. Will never give the growers
an idea of what they might make by
growing the apples the market wants
and packing them right for shipment.
Those hills should be kept mainly in
grass. but there is no grass now to
be seen on them. and they are wash
ing badly. | met several gentlemen
there who said that they read these
letters. and one man was kind enough
to tell me that the letters are worth
all the newspaper costs him. | hope
that some Of the men there who read
these letters will realize that they are
losing money by the kind Of farming
they are doing. and that 1t Will DC
better for their land and their pockets
to keep more stock, and raise more
forage to feed them, and consequent
ly more manure for their. hills TIL
they will grow more grass and feed
more stock 1t is a good thing to
have the stock law. lAlt it Will be d
bad thing if the farmers let that
lessen the number OF cattle kept. WIRE
fencing is now too cheap for amy one
to allow the matter Of fencing keep
him from making money out OF cat
tie.
\ friend at High Point writes that
he is not doing much farm'n@' out ne
likes to read these letters.
| Hence he wants advice about
| his COW. He says that he feeds
her the best he knows, but she re
mains poor, and he wants advice
about this | suppose the COW IS q
| good mixer, and hence Will usually
| look thin \ milch COW that gets tat
is usually poor milch COW. She is
rather intended for beef. Still there
is a right and a wrong way to feed
| the best and the poorest anlmai.
! Cows giving milk should have ration
in which the fat forming materials
are properly balanced BY the nitrogen
ous or muscle and milk making elc-
ments in the food. Too large pro
nortion of corn fed to a COW Will nave
q tendency to make fat rather than
| milk. Cow pea hay and corn fodder
can be proportional to make a good
ration. But it would take more space
than the paper can spare for III,
10 tell abount the compoundlh@ o.
rations1 for animals. Those VINO are
Interested in this can get full lniorlna
ton or the subject by wr,tHg 1T 2Gat6;t, to th' n
Secretary of Agriculture at Nashin@
ton y. c.. ana asking him to sene
Farmers Bulletin on Feeding Farm
Animals.'' This will give full infor
nation of the method to be used II
making up rations with various KIND:
Of food.