The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-28
HIGH GRADE BEEF CATTLE.
a Fine Herd Purchased by Depart
nsnt of Agriculture Increased
Interest in stock Raising-Gratif-
ca; ion st Appointment of Profess
so. oyner
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, n. c., February Is.

fldIeish, N. u, February %.
TIE department. Of agriculture and
eITrlment station have purchased In
AdFouri a carload of thirty-nine head
thoroughbred and high grade beef
ssle Of the Aberdeen-Angus breed, for
u. IN their experimental work on the
TT farm Of the department in Edge
tnbe county, and on the experiment
tat1on farm near Raleigh. These ami
nails arrived today in charge Of Mr..
. c. Hancock. an agricultural student
OF the University OF Missouri. The cat
stle come from beyond the tick line
and are therefore subject to tick" or
Texas" fever. They will be inoculated
by the veterinarian of the department
with the blood Of one Of our southern
cattle that has carried ticks; this will
render them immune to after attacks OF
the fever.
Thirty of these animals will be used
by the department and by the station,
the remainder having been purchased
for a number of farmers In different
parts Of the state.
Stock raising is attracting more at
tention in North Carolina at present
than 1T has even done before. The an
nouncement in the Raleigh papers a few
days ago OF the possibility OF a beef
famine in the city adds force to the al
ready plain necessity Of more cattle for
the state.
1t would seem that the state should
raise enough beef for its own consump-
ton and have some to spare. since we
nave In meal the richest
ana most Valuable concentrated feed in
the world n our average per acre in
a production (the other essential in
Ieed1ng) is equal to that of the great
est h~ay-producing state Qowa) in the
cattle raising sections of this country.
statistics taken from the government
reports for 1900 how the adaptablity
Of North Carolina and for hay produc-
ton, the yield in tons per acre of hay in
ten OF the states producing the largest
average yield per acre being as fol-
lows: Louisiana 2, Alabama 1.85. Texas
LS0, Mississippi LIS, Georgia 1.68,
kansas 1.63, Iowa LAP. North Cal
I.41, Tennessee lao. Kentuck LAO.
These figures show that Iowa is the
emily one of the north or northwestern
states. the ones that devote special at
tention to stock raising, that has a hay
yield equal to any of the southern
states. New York is considered espe-
sially as a h~ay-producing state and yet
the tonnage per acre is rs per cent.
less than that of North Carolina.
We only need to make use Of our ma
tHral advantages to become an impor-
tant stock-raising state.
The appointment of Professor James
Z. Joyner, of Greensboro, as state SUI
perintendent of public Instruction gives
great general satisfaction. He is we'll
known as IN educator. as a devoted
friend to public education and as a man
of affairs. He arrived here this after
Don and took the oath of office. John
W. Duckett will continue to be chief
clerk In his department.
Heavy rain fell last night and took
away nearly all the snow. The lowly-
ing fields are all under water and the
little streams pouring from the hillsides
have damaged the good roads by cover-
ing stretches of them with mud, having
syer-flled the bitches.
The supreme count today took up the
docket of appeals from the Fourth dis
trict.
Superintendent Mann. Of the peniten-
tiary. has returned from a trip Of In
spection to the camp Of 420 counties in
Mitchell county. These convicts are
grading a railway. The winter has
been so severe they have been able to
do but little work. They have been
given special care as to health, yet a
few have died of pneumonia
The Rose-CrOw Marriage in First
Presbyterian Church-Little Pros
pecs of State Base Ball League.
The Young Horse Thieves Put Tn