The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-04-11

Messrs. Editors: Your enterprising inquirer
did exactly right in bringing his Percheron mares
down from the North. Seeing Northern men NOV
ing into this country with their big mares and
observing their success with them. tempted me to
go North In the winter of 1906 and buy some
four and fve-year-old grade Percheron mares
Weighing twelve to fourteen hundred pounds.
They we're put to work and have been kept a,
il. Not one has ever been sick or out OF condi-
ton. They have stood the work as we'll as the
mules. and are bringing me colts besides.
One mare taken out of the pillow WEDNESDAY,
at noon foaled a fine colt Sunday morning. AZ
ter two weeks OF rest she will be put back TO the
pillow. We have had considerable experience
breeding and working horses on this place. and
have never seen any I'll effects OF change OF Gil
mate. In the trotting. the pacing. or the draf,
breeds of stock. I hope my experience will give
some comfor, to your subscriber.
CLARENDON DAVIS.
Huntsville. Ala.
Editorial Comment Such testimony IL vaiu-
able In helping to dispei some OF the fog sur-
rounding commonly accepted theories Of wha,
can't be done In the South, II the other South
ern States could have AZ many immigrants from
the North In proportion TO the population as
Texas has had. there Ia little doub, tina, Their.
would have resulted an exchange of ideas about
many farm problems aud ,ha, in the main tho
best ideas would have survived elsewhere as they
have In Texas: and tina; tho other Southern States
would have proa;ed as much by II.
rrudrn, Carr Needed by uig Ho~~~.-wnh
the exceptions OF n difference In soils and tho
best seasons for planting crops. harvesting them.
etc. there Ia less difference between tho North
aud the South from a farmers standpoint; than Ia
generally believed. OF course somc crops are
suited 10 one section and unaui;nd 10 tho other:
bu, tho way tina, field work should be done Ia
rather similar all over The country. m large m
II IL. 1, takes a big horse 10 pull a big load or n
big plow In the South. for tho satnc reason that
/, docs elsewhere. with good treatment. tho
big horse will do In the South ahou, ~ha, II
would do elsewhere with good rca,men,. Al a
matter OF fact. 1t gets hotter In Illinois than 1,
does In Alabama. though th!a In contrary To tho
usual belief. The Gut! States have . longer Pc
Rod Of warm weather. but tho Their mofne,cr docs
not 20 so high. The records OF tho weather
bureau from year 10 year show this concluslvcly.
But no man with n heavy horse would cxpcc, II
TO so on the road and travel fan, on n no, day. In
any section. II tho man had horse sense. In try
Ing 10 make a heavy hora. do that In the South.
IA man can easily &c, convinced tina, n heavy ami
NAL is no, suited TO the South: but ,ha, does no,
prove anything but that such n man attempted
something foolish.
A Good Habit the North~rncr Has.-Whilc
comparing the North and the South. we may no
farther. and say that Northern workmen work
harder than Southern workmen. because tho
Hortherner In his native section could no, do
anything else. There was no cheap labor TO do
work for him. II was work or s,arvc. Work be-