The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-06-10
FARMER ANDPLANTER.
STOCK AND PASTURE.
Line of Diversificaf ton That should
Find Favor i'm Many Parts
of the south.

We have always loved and consid-
cred stock not only as necessary part
of the farm, but as the most attractive
part. Where food is raised on the
place, and judiciously fed to them, so
that they are always kept in good con-
dition, they certainly constitute one OF
the most remunerative products of the
farm. We wish our readers could have
heard a conversation We had this week
with the largest individual buyer and
feeder OF cattle in Georgia We asked
him if he looked for much improve
ment in the cattle to be brought into
market during the next few years as
a result of the shorthorn blood intro
duced by recent purchases of males
and heifers throughout this section. He
replied mo. He had no hope or ex-
pectation from the southern farmer,
except as a cotton raiser. That all
the farmers diverging from cotton
growing was merely sporadic, and not
to be counted upon as lasting. For
Just as soon as cotton went up again,
away went everything else. And they
returned to all cotton again. Wniie
there is much ground for his words
and his pessimism, we are glad TO say
we do not agree with him fully, for we
have more confidence in the ability OF
the southern farmer to progress and
to prosper in other branches OF agri-
culture. save cotton raising. To sue
cessfully raise stock, farmer must not
go into it to vacillate with every rise
and depression of the market, but
should start out to raise good stock
and to follow continuously his chosen
course with an answering adherence,
which should mark the career of all
successful and worthy men. Sticking
to his business prudently and in busi-
ness way, the downs would find him
not discouraged, and the ups would
find him ready to avail himself OF all
its advantages. Such a farmer Will
not only be crowned with final success,
but he will develop into a better farm
err and a much broader man. His chill
dren will rise up to call his blessed
and not an all cotton crank, and be
better satisfied to remain at home and
pursue a calling, which thus shows IT.
self worthy of the best and highest
efforts of any man. Stock raising is
higher form of farming than cotton
raising. The breeders of the world are
a more intelligent class than the tillers.
We want to encourage every diversity
In farming. because 1t not only gives
us more money, but it awakens more
intelliengce. And brains on the farm
is one of our greatest needs. Some
say we can not successfully raise stock
in the south because ours is not lime
stone soil. But this is a mistake. Stock
of all kinds are raised successfully In
many parts of the world where they
have not a limestone soil. There are
scattered all over the south thousands
of farms, which, by their location. are
especially adapted to stock raising
Some on account of their hilly nature
some by being covered with Bermuda
grass. some by their cane-brakes, etc
But whether these conditions naturally
exist or not. there is more in the mar
than there is in the land" and any
one can go intelligently TO work and
prepare for raising stock successfully
If he desires. And we advise all who
have faith enough in their ability "te
hold fast to that which is good te
GO into the business Southern Guilt
vcfor