The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-12-10
Live Stock.
THE LIVE STOCK INDUSTRY IN THE
SOUTH.
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correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
Recognizing then the close rela-
tiOn exi-ting between crop prOduc-
tion and animal husbandry, what
line of live stock shall we take up?
Is seems to me that any line would
prove successful
Here they are: dairy husbandrY,
sheep husbandry, beef raising, swine
and mules. One or more of these
can be followed. The raising of
nogs goes hand in hand with either
beef Oh butter production.
The raising Of sheep for wool and
mutton, always brings good profits
for the owner if properly handled.
Our conditions are ideal for hot
house lam's. We are receiving
from the North from $25, 900 to $780,
600 worth of butter each year. The
-ame is true of beef, mutton and
pork M
OPPORTUNITY FOR THE LIVE STOCK IN
DU6IRH
here in the South, you say? I an
swer this is the best section in the
Union for the production of these
materials. The North is unable to
compete with us if we really set
about to grasp the opportunities be-
f"re us. We sell our cotton seed
meal to Northern farmers, who in
turn feed it TO dairy COWS and make
butter to return TO us. They get the
rich fertility IN the meal, worth we
will say from SIS TO $50 each ton, in
manure, and we get back their but
ter, with forty eight cents worth of
fertility for each ton. No wonder
our soils are becoming depleted I!
Let Us feed this food at home TO our
own stock and keep the fertility on
our own farms and we will ship the
busGer, because we can make it
cheaper, for we have the meal and
COW peas and clover and corn ensil-
age right at our doors. Our South
ern-grown food stuffs will make
just as good beef as anything that
can be produced in Iowa, Kansas, or
Illinois, if we but build up our herds.
And then
LOOK AT MULES.
What profit one CHn make in them
R. Gently we we're obliged to pur
chase a pair of mu Ga for our G pllege.
We sotnt some little time time in
getting what we wanted. We did
the best we could and paid 1875. The
man who raised those mules made
good money, l am sure. The ease
that corn stOver and cow peas can be
raised, solve the whole problem, if
one but sets about it. At the prices
quoted there is clear profit of 500
for each mule raised.
could take up much space in sug
gesting sIibilities in live stock
raising. But is is not needed. We
should bear in mind, however, that
grain Gro exhaust the soil, but the
soil can be maintained through the
growing of leguminOus forage drops,
and feeding these and grains to live
stock. We urge the reading farmer
to bear this point we'll in mind:
The greatest profit results from
feeding these grains and forage croL 8
to animals, rather than selling them
direct.
A ton of COW pea hay may be sold
for so or $12 per ton, yet if this ton
of cow pea hay we're sold through
the COW, the result would be two or
three times the commercial value of
the hay
BRANCHES OF STOCK RAISING.
To Orlng this question of live stock
properly before the reader, we will
consider it under the following
heads:
1. The management o: dairy stock.
2. The management of beef castle. |
3. The management of swine.
The management of sheep.
S P lssibilities in raising mules.
The matter of first Importance is
the question of breeding stock for
the production of profitable animals.
We can see by the following that our
dairy stock is not what it should be.
In another article the writer showed
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