The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-04-09
STOCK RAISING.
interesting Facts as to Why the South
Should Take up this LUCRATIVE Work.


One of the NEST comprehensive and
notable addresses delivered before the
meeting Of the Stock Breeders conven-
tion which assembled in Jacksonville,
Fla, last Saturday was that of Col. l.
G. Wade, of Cornelia, Ga.
He discussed stock raising in the
South from the standpoint Of the man
who has made a success Of the business
in various localities in his native State
and with the directness Of one familiar
with the fine points of the business.
He said that stock raising was the
highest type of agriculture as opposed
to the lowest type, the negro and the
mule. 1t requires brain work and
combined with intelligent labor means
wealth and brings increased home COM
forts.
I In regard to getting started" the
bugbear Of so many, he said that there
were two ways, both having been
found feasible and Notwithstanding
the recent experiment at the Louis
lana station, under DR.. Stubs, in
feeding northern steers immunized
and making a success of it he preferred
the slower way for results, and this
way was by buying the very best bull
calves. Try and select the best types
as far as possible, the fieshy, low-leg-
ged kind. These, in a few years, will
give you the caGtle you want. You
can, with a little care, make ex-
changes with your neighborS for the
bulls he has been using, 80 as not to
inter-breed too close. This interchange
should be one of the main features to
promulgate.
Incidentally, there are several side
lines to this stock improvement idea.
The first and greatest is the stoppage
of land erosion. The views n gets
while riding through our States from
the window of his train are in many
instances the exact opposite we would
ike to convey. Instead Of pastures
with u splendid Bermuda grass, we
see great ravines Of red clay or white
mud that give a shock to the intend
Ing immigrant that he will not recover
rom, but going home tells what he
sees and the bad always travel the
Now with a few brush and old
putt these gullies, soon the
Bermuda grass will take the poor,
torn mother earth and sew up her
.acerated bosom with her kindly NOV
fingers. This one point will GER
tainly in five years double the value Of
your farm.
We are now buying ove a million
and a half dollars worth Of food stuffs
SOm the North and West, all which
should be raised here at home and fed
to home grown stock.
Now add to this-a fortune for sew
eral States if kept at home--all grains
and hays that are shipped in for do
nestle use, and that which should be
used for the feeding and fattening Of
the cattle, at least ten million dollars
more, and the amount is simply ap-
If we were not naturally
the w%ealthieSt section in tine United
States We would be b~ankrupted. We
nave 70 long blindly followed the ne
gro and the mule that we letslip away
the above vast sum, when, by
The proper use Of the highest type OF
agriculture, stock raising, we not only
ave this great expenditure, but we
and surely add a vast incre-
nent to our agricultural lands in the
shape of humus from the stock.
This is a stock growing country the
finest in the world. Start right by
good stock, and the price Of
will never worry you.