The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-05-08
RANGE CATTLE IN NORTH CAROLINA.

fields is n system. Inc "NO renee
or Stock Law system where owners
of stock must enclose their property
and not allow it to roam at large is
the other system.
The former system prevails in the
mountain counties except Henderson
and Buncombe and small tracts
Ctown9 in jackson, Haywood, Macon
and Pennsylvania. All the coast
counties, except New Hanover, are
free range, as is all the Coastal Plain
counties Northeast and Southwest OF
Raleigh, except Halifax and Edge
combe on the North, Greene and
parts of Lenoir and Wayne, part of
Cumberland and Harnett?), Robson
and parts of Richmond, and the new
county of Scotland. Three towns of
Bladen county have the stock law.
Part of Chatham and Montgomery,
are of the free range territory. See
State Department Of Agriculture
map, to which acknowledgement is
made.
In general terms one may say the
mountains and coastal plains are free
range territories and the piedmont
and uplands are stock law counties
dividing the State into two pretty
nearly equal areas In addition to
this and affecting numbers, distribu-
ton, and values of cattle the United
States Quarantine Line follows the
Southern boundary of the State to
the Summit of the Blue Ridge and
follows that line approximately
across the State. South and East of
this line the country is nor or less
infected with cattle Ticks (Boophilus
bowls, Curtice). Here there T nu-
merOus and expensive outbreaks Of
Texas fever every year around cities
and county seats where ticky cattle
are brought together with those
raised on tick free land, itmay be on
adjoining farms.
There has been a more active de
demand for cattle during the past
three or four years than usual.
Prices have been higher than has
beenzknOwn for years before. Many
cattle and sheep are known to have
been shipped out of this State to be
fed in Virginia and as far off as
Pennsylvania. It is thought that
shipments to market in Richmond
and Norfolk have been more than
usually active on account of higher
prices. There has been some move
ment of cattle from South Carolina
and Georgia. How large this has
been we do not know, but would like
to know as we'll as we think we know
it will be stopped by the United
States quarantine law when it is
fully enforced.
What effect has all this on the cat
tie, OF. people of North Carolina, or
readers of The Progressive Farmtr?
Well, we may, perhaps, be pardOned
if we admit a belief that it has a
great deal to do with all those named
and if any reader has only one heifer,
one wOrksteer and he keeps in
formed by following The Progressive
Farmer he will see the information
gathered result in additional price
enough on the one animal, if sold, to
pay once or twice, perhaps many
for The Progressive Farmer.
one has d herd of fifty, will
it pay~tO keep informed?
There is a scarcity of cattle. Fewer
T now living in this country
than for quite a number of years and
they have been decreasing in num-
bers but there are more people
than ever before and the demand for
for meat is increasing as we'll
as for all the parts Of cattle used in
trade and the arts. Moreover, there
now before Congress a law to regu-
late the manufacturers and sellers Of
b%utterine and oleomargarine, which,
# passed, will put the sale Of those
articles on an honest basis so they
will be sold for what they are. This
will at once advance the demand for
and price of butter. These cOndi-
lions point to advancing prices.
We have recently been looking
around d little to see what North
Carolina has in hand for stock with
to meet her part of this in
ereasing demand for stock. II we
have looked far enough the supposed