The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-08-19
News and Courier.

Clemson, August 13.-Dr. Fait
Butler, State veterinarian of North
Carolina, addressed the Farmers In.
stltute at Clemson yesterday. He
! first spoke of the necessity of the
live stock industry in the South. He
compared favorably the land of the
South with lands in the North and
West. He said that no farming op-
Grafton or system is ever entirely
successful permanently unless the
main idea was to raise food products
and feed to stock. He drew atteH-
ton to the fact that Southern cattle
are as healthy as cattle anywhere,
and disease is of little considera-
tion.
He next spoke Of grasses as bear
ing on stock raising and showed that
out of four of the large had produc
ing States Iowa was the only one
that produced more hay per acre
than South Carolina during a ten
year period. He pointed out also
that Southerners usually do not put
their best land in hay, while in the
North the best land is devoted to it,
and showed that while Iowa pro-
duced in one year five million tons of
hay South Carolina produced 1926
tons. He said that the Southern
country was one of the richest Sec
tions, otherwise it could not have
stood the drain that has 80 long been
made on it.
He showed that the system of
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and the loss amounted last year to
S5O,O0O,0O0. Cotton seed meal is
$35 a ton as feed and when it is
shipped out of the country and used
as fertilizers, at present prices, great
loss in money value results.
sTOcK-RAIsING MUST BE TAUGHT.
He also spoke of some of the OBJ
stacles to raising stock in the South
and said that in order to have stock
we must have men educated in that
direction. He criticised the fact that
he saw no we'll equipped agricultural
building here, while very fine build
!ngs for other sciences existed, and
he censured the trustees for their
remissness in the matter. His re-
marks drew forth considerable ap-
plause.
He showed that cattle were selling
higher than usual and would proba-
bly, continue high, and predicted
that cotton seed meal would never
be cheap again because it was worth
S35 ton for feed.
He emphasized the importance OF
the farmers getting agricultural edn-
cation and proceeded to show some
things specially needed. He showed
from his own observation that many
stock owners do not know whether
they have we'll bred or back stock
because of lack of knowledge i'll these
subjects. All stock must be bred for
for some special purpose. cow
bred for milking uses is not expected
to make a good beef type and an
animal bred specially for beef is not
good milk type. He told of the
case steer-one Jersey and one Here.
ford-that we're tested in Ohio. The
expense of fattening was practically
the same. The Jersey, weighing
1000 pounds at 3 years old, brought
little over four cents pound, the
Hereford little over six cents pound.
The Jersey dressed 57a per cent. net
the other 671 per cent. net. Jersey
made tallow 100 pounds; Hereford
made 80 pounds tallow. Tallow be-
ing worth only three or four cents a
pound and beef good deal more,
made the difference in favor of the
Hereford marked on this item alone.
so this test very strikingly illustrated
the Importance of breeding the diff
ferent types for the purpose for
which one particular type is wanted.
His next subject was the cattle
tick, which he considers the worst