The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-06-07
By II. z. BLAKEsLEE, jackson. Hiss

pig should not be allowed to disappear
but should be added to daily as the
animal increases in age. Corn should
be used in limited quantity on the
growing pig, and should be suppl
mented by ground foods, dairy BIZ
products, alfalfa or clover pasture,
and such other feeds as are at hand.
AS the animals increase in age the
proportion of corn or other fat-pro-
ducing food should be increased. Nu-
merous experiments have proven that
it does not pay to feed hog be-
yond $50 or 300 pounds. At this
weight they fill the requirement OF the
average market. Further weight IS
secured at considerably increased
cost per pound, and the point IS event.
ually reached where it requires prac-
] tically all of the feed consumed to
maintain the weight already secured.
While the gentleman who wrote
this may have little conception of a
Mississippi hog pen and know prac-
ticaIly nothing about conditions as
they prevail here, he evidently adj
vances some good ideas with regard
to the care of hogs. Clr<nliness is
desirable in everything and as much so
in hog raising as other lines of indus
try. Who is it that does not believe
that meat fattened in we'll drained
and cleanly pen should not be more
wholesome than that in the old style
pen so common in use years ago and
still in vogue at places? While our
state does not raise any considerable
quantity Of meat for export, great
deal is made for home consumption
and the advice given above might be
used to advantage by the small farmer
as we'll as the large planter. 1t is
offered for what it is worth.
+, Farms properly conducted Should
grow stronger in productive power as
they grow older In the abandoned
farms of the east the home builders
who are now fast populating the south
and west should find lesson. These
lands were once rich and prolific, but
their fertility was filched from them
by greedy and near-sighted methods
of cultivation. Itsisatozbe hoped that
the same practices will not bring
about like results in Mississippi. There
should be some regard for posterlty.
Credit does not belong to the farmer
who wears out half dozen home
steads in his lifetime, though he may
become rich and prosperous. Only a
useless waste has he left for future
generations. But the man who uses
his intelligence to perpetuate the soil
builds a monument that will live after
him and cause him to be blessed when
boarded wealth has vanished. The
world owes every man a living, but in
return he should give some recon-
pense and in the farmers case it means
that he should manage his crops so as
to not starve the soil. When profit
is taken, some payment should DO
made. Manure is legal tender In this
cancellation of moral debt. Crop TO-
tation lessons liability and the grow
ing legumes increases the commercial
rating of the debtor. Let us have no
abandoned farms in Mississippi. There
will be none if we do not abuse the
soil and take from it year by year and
repay nothing.
Meridian is undergoing wave of
indignation by the citizens at the con-
dition of the streets. 1t is to be
hoped that this commendable stirring
up will not be allowed to goby without
something q substantial nature be-
ing done to better conditions.
A fair wool-producing sheep and a
medium mutton animal might be bred
in one, but you would not get the
best of either, no more than yon
could combine the best butter and
beef animal in one COW. The best
mutton sheep does not produce the
host nua1itv or tha greatest Ouantlty