The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-05-25
WOULD PROVE A BONANZA.
The Conditions In the South Favee.
able to Sheep-Raising.


sonally I have no choice.
1. What do you think of Mississippi
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 a little ahead. Can
you advise me as to such section of
country?
4. Do you think it would be a good
plan to buy native ewes and use q
blooded ram?
8. 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 ask you to aid me as fully Is
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 I answer through the
Cultivator.
Answer: 1. Native sheep do well IN
Mississippi and louisiana, as we'll as
do some imported breeds. There is
land in Tennessee that can Ne had at
from $50 to $40 per acre, but il 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 well there.
3. Free range would be hard to find
in Tennessee. 1t can be had In the
more southern states, but l 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
way is to attend to it-stick a pin
right there.
4. That is decided the best plan
for extreme southern states.
5. Southdowns, Merino and Dorsets.
In the order named
6. For mutton. Long wool sheep
will not do well in the south.
z. Either herd them or inclose
with 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 coed
dog law.
3. grow alfalfa and rape for my
sheep. These are not absolutely nee
essary here, as the native sheep do
well with no feed except during very
cold weather, but I breed only regis
tered Southdowns, and prefer to
feed well and keep il nice fettle.
10. I am tcld there is such q weed
in west Tennessee, but the writer
has never seen 1t. and think it quite
rare. If I wanted to use cheap lands
and give unlimited range, then l
would invest in goats rather than
sheep, for the reason that the former
can almost live on soil and dead
bush and do not need attention, be-
ing proof of dogs, negroes and other
wild animals. Sheep must have atten-
ton at times and unless you can fur
nish an attendant l would advise you
to let them severely alone.
The writer believes that he who
buys up cheap lands of the south, that
is now being neglected, and stocks
same with Angora goats, will have a
bonanza.-W. T. Donoho, in Southern
Cultivator.
Experiments made recently in Mis-
souri, demonstrated the fact that eight
tons of stable u7anura anpliod when