Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-19
the greatest profit therefrom. That
heef cattle can be- grown in the state to

shown by the fact that properly
finished cattle tnpped the market in
Louisville last winter on several occa-
sions, and recently some SO head were
sold by Knoxville feeder for export
tn Scotland. AS the industry, COM
uaratively speaking, is in its infancy.
1t is not to be expected that great
success in cattle feeding will be
achieved all at once by our farmers.
1t is business which requires the
exercise of good judgment and the
closest personal attention, and so 1T
will take time to properly develop it I"
Prot. SOule refers, of course, to con-
ditions that obtain In Tennessee. It
is fair to say, however, that his-state-
ment Is applicable to many of the
other southern states, and while he
does not mention in glowing terms
that stock feeding in the South is
especially profitable, he does furnish
food for reflection; and any person who
would know the details and actual
results of his experiments in Feeding
Native Steers, I" should address him at
Knoxville, Tenn, and request copy
Of his bulletin upon that subject.
Question No. 2. Is 1t true that stock
IN the South need not be fed or sheltered
during the aci,,ter naonthss
No, it is not true. Such treatment
would be positive cruelty, and there is
no excuse for 1T. There is hardly a
farm or plantation in the South that
does, or may not at least, grow suffi-
cient amount of native hay OF fodder
to furnish an abundance of coarse
food for every head of stock on the
farm during the winter months
Neither is there any excuse for stock
in the South not being sheltered
While we are having our cold winter
billiards, the South is having cold
winter rains, and one is about as hard
on stock as the other. Timber, lum-
her and labor are cheap throughout
the South, and when our southern
farmers understand, as do our north
ern farmers, that every needed barn
or shed placed upon the farm not only
adds to its attractiveness, but to its
selling value at least fifty per cent
more than the cost of the improve
ments, they will pay more attention
TO these needed shelters forstock from
December to April, and thus do away
with the false theory thatstock in the
South need not be fed or sheltered
lduring the winter months.
| Question No. 4. Ho,o about hog raising
Il, the South?
The following, from Col. Chas.
Schiller, of Keachie, La, explains in
detail successful and profitable
method of hog raising in the South:
"Hop raising can be successfully
followed in Louisiana, and has been a
success on my farm for thirty-two
years The common expression that
you must have a hog that can outrun
a Niger. is all stuff and nonsense. !
lcultivate about eight hundred acres,
use altogethe negro labor, and can
not remember ever having pig or
hog stolen. / raise hogs in connection
with my main money crop-cotton. /
usually kill from fifty to seventy-tive
head each year, averaging from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred
pounds net per head. I use thorough
bred males, changing them every two
or three years. I kill on the farm,
and sell surplus to merchants and
customers in the city. Never have
trouble in realizing cash for hog pro.
ducts. Have kept dry salt meats
Sides from hogs killed in December,
perfectly sweet and good until the
latter part of May. After that time
I would advise smoking Have kept
and exhibited at county fairs, hams
that were eighteen months old after
killing, perfectly sound and sweet
The fact is that Louisiana hams, as
cured by me, have a reputation for
good quality, equal to any ham made
in this country. 1 prefer killing on
the farm to selling to packers, because
owing to the price that we can realize
for corn, 1T is much cheaper to raise
hogs the way I do than to fatten at
| all times of the year. claim that by
adopting my methods, and charging
the hog up only with the labor Of
producing the food, letting him do his
own harvesting, that gross pork can
J be raised in this climate at not much
over one-half cent per pound.
/ CHOW as to method: / want my
sows, as near as possible, to have two
litters Of pigs each,-the first about
the last OF August or the first of
| September, the second about the last
Of March. Everything born before the
first Of April goes to the smoke house
the following winter.
GAS to the matterof feed: have
pastures containing Bermuda and
native grasses, with plenty of water:
containing also forest trees for shade
and acorns. For winter pasture SOW
oats and vetch In October. Ialso iced,
during winter, such nubbins of corn
as would be unit to feed to my work
stock. In March SOW early amber
sorghum broadcast for pasture. 1t
| will come In about the latter part of
April, and 1t is astonishing the num-