The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-09-24
Raise More Live Stock.
kinstOn Free Press.

kinston Free Press.
We wish to call attention to the
following very valuable article APP
pearing in the North State Industrial
journal on the subject of live stock.
Every reader who understands the
conditions confronting us will agree
that the Journals words are to the
point, and especially are they appli-
cable to farming conditions as they
exist here in Eastern North Carolina.
Here we have the climate, Il luXu-
RANT growth OF grass, even in an un-
cultivated state making the very
finest kind OF pasturage, and album
dant facilities for making II suffic-
iency of the best of hay and plenty of
grain.
All know that at the present time
meat is very high, and that the
chances are that it will continue to
be high. What better, then, could
the farmers do than take advantage
of the situation and raise not only
their own meat and live stock. but
raise it to sell.
There is much in the suggestion.
This live stock industry should by
no means conflict with grain, truck
and tobacco farming, but should
supplement it. The editorial in
question is given below:
Now is the time to keep more and bet
ter stock than ever before.
1t is a good time now for the farmer to
consider what promising outlook there
is for him to increase his growing of
meat animals; or if he does not now
make it an object to grow only his sup
ply, does not good common sense teach
him that there never was more OppOr-
tune period in which to push ahead and
grow beef, pork and mutton to the ca
pacity of his farm and conditions? Meats
are exceedingly dear and there is a short
supply of meat animals everywhere
which will require years and years to re-
plenish. Prices will probably vary some
from time to time, during few years to
come; but for a dozen years meat prices
averaged the last dozen years. Condi-
lions point to the contrary. Take cattle,
for instance Sufficient breeding stock is
not in the country They must be grown,
and then there is a warning element
against this Most of the commercial
beef cattle are grown on the range; but
settlers have SO encroached upon the
ranges that public grazing lands have
been growing scarcer and scarcer
1t is very easy to see that in time not
very far away all beef and mutton in
this country must be grown on farms
Stock growing on the ranges is fast
passing away. Stock growing enriches
land, while so much grain growing as
now impOverishes it. Grow more stock
and more grain can be grown with it.
And while meat animals have largely de-
creased in numbers human mouths to
consume have increased with the increas-
ing population. The drought of last
season in the swine belt reduced the hog
crop and the output of pork very seri-
ously. 1T will require long time to
get back into the old basis.
Live stock and tillage of the soil were
designed by the Creator to go hand in
hand. Neither will flourish alone, never
did and never will long at a time. The
soil OF England is so very fertile because
of the combination of these two forces
live stock and thorough tillage Only
pure bred sires of recognized beef or dual
purpose breeds of cattle must be used
and grade up the native stock.
They should be sent to the market
after two summers and one winter s
feeding. They must be kept growing
and gaining weight all the time while
young by feeding forage and grains that
are rich in protein-the blood, bone and
muscle-forming foods-and topped off
with foods rich in carbohydrates the
fat-making feeds. This is the most prof
liable course for the farmer to pursue.
The same principle applies to all kinds Of
stock kept on the farm