The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-23

denotes toward beef should be rejected
All the so-callfed dual-purpose animals
should be avoided, for they would not pay
in this dairy if in any dairy. The herd
bull should be the veryebest that can be
gotten. -
Hogs are necessary adjunct to every
properly equipped dairy farm One pure
breed should be kept, and the young sold
as breeding stock.
FARM CROPS.
Corn should be planted early and late
Tor ensilage Early corn should be sliced
and fed on continuously. Then just before
frost a crop should be ready to fill the
silo to the brim, and the feeding con-
tinued Thus there is no loss from the
top layers rotting. While corn is pre-
eminently the feed for the dairy COW,
root crops sorghum, clover and other
crops should also be raised to furnish
variety and improve the animals appe-
titles kitchen garden and good orch
ard should form part of every dairy
farm While the effort should be to raise
as near all the feed reuired as possible.
still the dairy farmer should not be
ayerse to buying concentrated feeds
There is money in feeding cotton seed meal
at present prices to dairy cows.
HEALTH OF THE STOCK.
"The herd should be tested annually for
tuberculosis, all infected animals removed
and their stalls thoroughly disinfected
Plenty of fresh air, exercise and sunshine
are the best preventives of tuberculosis.
IF the farm is infected with the Texas
fever tick, the pasture should be moved
and the COWS rotated yearly on the diff
ferent fields until this pest has been eradi
Gated After that, great care should be
taken that no ticks are brought on the
farm by purchased animals or cows
brought in by neighbors for service.
ADVERTISING.
SIN dairying SIS in almost everything
else, advertising pays. A. delivery system
J as described above is one OF the best ways
of Advertising 1t also pays to keep an
ad. running in one or more of the city
papers.
Prof. f. L. Stevens next spoke very in
terestingly on seed Purity and Vitality"
He dwelt upon the great necessity of
farmers testing their seeds before sowing
them, as a great deal OF fraud was being
constantly practiced. For instance, he
showed a sample of oat seed bought from
a store in Raleigh. About half of these
we're really cheat seed, and not oats all.
There was one seed house he told of that
had a lot of 2O-year-old squash S, ed that
had turned yellow They wanted to get
rid of them. and for that purpose whit
ened them by burning sulphur. Then they
mixed In some new fresh seed, and so got
rid Of the old ones in that way.
1t was a very simple matter, Prof.
Stevens showed. to germinate seed. Every
BODY could do it, and ought to do it.
DIR. B. w. KILGoRE.
Tben Mr. Rrawley. acting chairman, in
troduced DR. B. w. Kilgore, the State
Chemist
DR.. Kilgore spoke on SOILS and Fertih-
zers." He began by saying we should not
boast too much and euloglze our soil and
climate. saying that we produce every
thing almost that is grown IN this coun-
trv But if they are produced. in such
quality az not to be OF commercial value,
II is no real advantage to us.
Talx;no m the subject of soils he said
we ,o;gbt divide the soil of the State into
three great types
soil, extending all along the seacoast and
about 1o(, miles in width. This type grows
cotton corn and other staples. Tobacco
requires ! different type. We all know
the b,;obt tobacco area is moving grad
uaIlv aastward That is because the type
Of soil has moved further east The peo-
H. Viz ,,,od - grow bright tobacco have