The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-15

from 1900 to 10000 pounds Of
butter annually. Here is an oppor
tunity of
5000 YOUNG MEN TO BUILD UP TIL
DAIRY herds
of North Carolina, for butter sells
from 25 TO IS cents per pound and
milk from 6 to 10 cents per quart. II
Ohio, Illinois and Iowa oar make
butter and cheese for the South or
lands valued from $50 TO $3.50 acre,
and raise one crop per year from
those lands, after buying our cotton,
seed meal, what think ye we a dc
on soils valued from $40 to $40 per
acre that will grow two crops per
year, which are especially adapted
for dairy husbandryP
Cow pea hay lie always a sure sum-
mer crop, and crimson Glover, nine
out of ten years, a sure winter crop,
and corn peculiarly at home in the
South. Besides, the many cultivated
and native pasture grasses all point
to the middle South as especially and
favorably adapted to dairy hus-
bandry.
1t will require 5000 dairy farmers
in North Carolina TO supply that
States needs, and then, when that is
done, behold the many cities in the
Atlantic ready TO take the South's
butter, cheese and milk, because
there it can be cheaper produced, at
greater profit than anywhere else in
the world. The opportunity calls
for an army uf dairy workers TO do
this. The South, therefore, is the
objective point toward which the
course of Empire takes it's way.
What has been said here in refer
enc to dairy husbandry is equally
as emphatic and true of
BEEF HUsBANDRY, SHEEP AND SWINE
Iii s impossible to estimate the i'm
mense quantities of beef, mutton,
pork, and the like that T brought
into North Carolina because our
farming people do not produce
enough to supply home oonsump-
ton.
The opportunity of the South is
everything agricultural. The limits
are not confined to it's own borders,
but go as far as steamship and rail
road will carry agricultural products
that are in demand.
There is no cotton mill North or
South that will produce so much on
capital invested as the creamery and
cheese factory in the South. The
rioh, fertile grazing lands in the
mountainous districts for beef, the
dairy and the 11ck: the lands that
are tillable for wheat, corn and cot
ton, and the trucking lands of the
sea coast make the middle South,
the Mecca of the future for farmers,
and the agricultural one of prosper.
Gus success.
The South Is an agricultural cOun
try live stock can be grown and fed
at less expense than in the West and
North, because of the abundance of
rich vegetation, less severe climate
and cheap lands. The nearness to
many large oenters of population
suggests BASE for marketing and
good prices.
The greatest need of our people
to-day is
TRAINING IN THEIR WORK
Not mere education not mere cul-
ture. There is no section of the
country richer in these. But train
ing in the plain laws of husbandry.
Of the use of machinery, the care and
management of wellbred stock, and
the manufacture Of dairy products
With the touch of this Agricultural
training, the impulse will act like
the magician's wand, converting in
a moment the agricultural life of the
middle South, from it's undeveloped,
unimproved conditions, into a pr0
fusion of wealth, greatness and pros
porous s 2Coess.-Dr. Charles VIM
BurkaIt, in Agri cultural Education.