St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-05-11
WOULD PROVE A BONANZA.
The Conditions In the South Favor.
able to Sheep-Raising.

lie w A1L uV SOu L01Ah VI NALS0100IHRA
and Louisiana? am afraid that land
in Tennessee would cost too much
money to be profitable.
2. What part Of your state would
you advise our looking at?
3. For the first couple of years
would like to have free range or rent
land until / get little ahead. Can
you advise me as to such a section of
country?
4. Do you think it would be a good
plan to buy native ewes and use a
blooded ram?
5. What do you consider the best
males for the south?
6. Do you consider it best to cult
vate for wool or mutton in the south?
Z. Would one, were he in the
south, herd his sheep or turn them
out to take chances?
8. How about dogs and wild AMI
mails, are you troubled much with
them?
10. Are there any poisonous weeds
or grass that hurt sheep in Tennes-
see?
May 1 ask you to aid me as fully as
your time will allow?
If you publish this, please sign New
Yorker; prefer this to my own name.
The above comes from Brooklyn,
N Y, and as they are questions OF
general interest answer through the
Cultivator.
Answer: 1. Native sheep do well in
Mississippi and Louisiana, as well as
do some imported breeds. There is
land in Tennessee that can pe had at
from $50 to $40 per acre, but it is not
the best for sheep growing nor any
other purpose, as to that. The best
lands of Tennessee are, comparative
ly speaking, rather higher in price,
and yet much lower than the best
| lands of the north.
| 2. For sheep husbandry there is no
better location on earth than middle
or eastern Tennessee. The western
portions of the state are not so well
adapted to the business, although
sheep do very we'll there.
| 8. Free range would be hard to find
in Tennessee. It can be had in the
more southern states, but / can not
| advise you to use same without you
have money to burn. No one can hope
to succeed with sheep while they are
! turned loose to roam at will.
Anything worth doing at all, Is
worth doing right and the only right
/ Sc IN ot+ %0 if--CtiRH
right there.
4. That is decided the best plan
| for extreme southern states.
| S. Southdowns, Merino and Dorsets.
In the order named.
6. For mutton. Long wool sheep
| will not do we'll in the south.
[ 7. Either herd them Or inclose
| with a woven wire fence, so you may
always know where they are.
8. Dogs have given considerable
trouble in the past, but laws are
now being enacted for the protection
of sheep from dogs. The Tennessee
legislature has just passed good
dog law.
9. I grow alfalfa and rape for my
sheep. These are not absolutely nee
essary here, as the native sheep dc
well with no feed except during very
cold weather, but breed only regis
tered Southdowns, and I prefer tt
feed well and keep il nice fettle.
10. I am told there Is such a weed
in west Tennessee, but the writer
has never seen it, and think 1t quite
rare. If I wanted to use cheap lands
and give unlimited range, then
would invest in goats rather thar
sheep, for the reason that the former
can almost live on soil and dead
bush ana do not need attention, be
ing proof of dogs, negroes and othel
wild animals. Sheep must have atten
ton at times and unless you can fur
nish an attendant would advise yot
to let them severely alone.
The writer believes that he WHIT
buys up cheap lands Of the south, tina
is now being neglected, and stocks
same with Angora goats, will have (
bonanza.-W. T. Donoho, in Southern
CultiVator.
i Experiments made recently in Mis-
souri, demonstrated the fact that eigh
tons of stable manure applied whel
? fresh to an acre of land increased thu
yield of corn 20 bushels. But the goot
effects Of the eight tons of n,anur1
continued to be felt for several year
: following the application. Barnyar'
manure should not be neglected an
> left to lie in the stable, but be sprea
l once each week.
, When every farm In the south ha
\. five acres of alfalfa, and mows fou
! tons from each acre, making 1000
( pounds Of sweet, nutritious Glove
a feed, will they not have fat horses
} mules, cows, sheep, hogs and all N
q butter and milk the family can eat ?
!. No one will gainsay the statemen
I that there are some enterpristn
: farm wives and daughters who ar
4 making more clear money every yea
o from the intelligent care Of a flock c
4 pure-bred birds, and sometimes nor
( grels, than the husband and fathe
from his general farm work.
Last year the leafess plant Gale
8 dodder was very destructive to man
Of the alfalfa fields in the south. Dot