The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1902-09-13
THE VIEWS OF AN EXPERT.
What Has Been Done in Development
OF Dairying and Stocking Raising.

| SSPiSuouS work In agricultural mat
ters ana his connection with the South
Carolina department of agriculture.
ana now with the Southern Cotton Oil
company, as District Manager at At
.ahta, ia, in writing about the infu-
ence of cotton seed products on the de-
Velopment of dairying In the South,
says:
About 1850, a few wealthy and en-
serpIising southern planters imported
some Devon cattle from England.
Lhese We're turned loose in cane
prakes with the native scrubs and al
toweu TO roam over large areas of
m0oIeu country, picking up a precari-.
GUS living on the scant pasturage az
! ioroeQ by the woods freshly burned
| over by the forest fires In the spring
| Atnough widely scattered and a few
1n M, NUMBER, ~. the prepotency of this breed
was so great that in many sections the
evidence OF this infusion OF good blood
Is still visible In the stock.
| NO wei-to-do planter at that time
CONSIDERED that he had milch cows
enough to supply the wants of his fam
| ny unles ne owned at least twenty-five
or thirty head. These droves of half
Wild and half-famished animals were
.ocated towards nightfall by the ring
ing OF a bell hung around the neck or
the leader. They were driven TO tho
| Cow-pen, sometimes miles from where
they were found in the woods, q spas
noolc enort was made to extract milk
| from them, penned up over night. and
second attempt made upon them the
next morning. The average yield was
ABOUT one quart per COW.
Ihe idea of increasing this produc-
ton by tudicious feeding was not
thought Of. This was the rule but of
course there We're notable exceptions
People who did not own unlimited acres
iand, and who appreciated milk
cows. fed them regularly. and allowed
theni to pasture during the day on
| their neighbors land. This pasturinp
| was more to give them proper exer-
else, and keep them healthy than to
| 10 such an extent had the cattle in
terests of South Carolina in 1850 depre-
clated that the repairs to the farm
renee cost more than the value of the
| cattle In the state, and the probability
is that the same was equally true OF
| nearly all the Southern States"
Ihen came the mo Fence Law"
Whlch compelled the owners to fence
| the cattle instead of the crops. This
| forced the farmers to own good milcb
| cows, or none at all, as 1t became too
expensive to feed poor stock About
TINS time, or perhaps little earlier,
| appeared the Jersey" on the scene n
breed of cattle as suited to the needs
| or those who were too poor to own n
cow, and too proud to milk a goat"
But this beautiful little animal soon
"guitter,". and, furthermore. that she
filled long felt want" and, with
| proper attention, gave rich returns on
her cost and keep. and. like the Irish,
man 5 piS dat Ee I@!s-d ia the cabii
with his children. she paid the rent
as well as the freight. AS compared
| with the Devon. she was smaller ir
statue and gave less milk. but the pro,
did give, far exceeded that of the De.
Won, the Durham, and Holstein, ant
she promptly became the prime favor.
lite of small families and butter-mak.
ers., But she could not live withou,
feed, and butter could not be produced
prohtably on corn meal, wheatbran. OF
cowpea diet, nor could it be produced
at all on what the Jersey could pick
up in the pastures.
Nature, always lavish, but provident
MD away coal in the earth for ages
only to be uncovered when the world
needed 1T most, pointed the way to the
gold fields only when this precious
metal was absolutely required for the
worlds commerce, and covered from
sight the phosphate rock OF the Caro-
linas until improvident man had de-
stroyed the fertility of the fields. like
wise she held back the material re-
quired to make dairying in the South
possible and profitable, until condi-
tions We're favorable for it's use.
The advent Of the Jersey COW Gre
ated demand for a cheap and rich
1000, which the oil mills supplied with
hulls and meal. In a list Of fifty of
the Leading feed materials of the Uni
ted states, the National Department of
Agrlculture ranks cotton seed meal
nrst, In feeding value and places the
value of cotton seed hulls for the same
purpose above the best timothy hay.
The use OF these products has fully
sustained the departments reports.
ana dairy farming is fast becoming an
industry of Importance, and this has
been largely the result of the liberal
policy Of the Southern Cotton OIL Co.
or the Carolinas and Georgia. which
has Headquarters at Columbia. 8. c..
Atlanta, Ga, Savannah. Ga. and Char
lotte. N. c., Goldsboro. N. c., and Au-
gusta. Ga.
Around the large cities in the South,
dairies are successfully operated, sup
plying the people with wholesome
milk, and rich golden butter from cows
fed on hulls and meal. The country
mills have accomplished the same
thing for the farms and small towns
Around the factory towns the small
mills make dairying possible and pro.
htabfe, as the demand from the opera
, tives is sufficient to consume ali the
milk and butter that can be produced
and the use Of meal for fertilizing the
land, which Is sold reasonably by the
Southern Cotton Oil Company. has
greatly enlarged the area devoted tc
truck farming Of all kinds
Without oil mill products dairyins
| would be impossible in many sections
of the South. The abundance, cheap.
ness and convenience of the products
has already developed the business e
. an interesting extent ana it Is only fr
it's infancy. and it's growth will in.
crease rapidly each year with tn.
steady improvement in the grade O,
milch cows. Oleomargarine contain.
about forty per cent. milk, and tn,
: compound is q wholesome product
a The establishments Of cooperative fac
tories for its manufacture in the vi
= cinity of Oil mills where refined OF
, can be had would give q tremendou,
impetus to dairying in the South.