The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-04-23
HOW I'd MAKE LIVE STOCK PAT.

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farmer couId ~wovk lnso~ . pAysns
I've stock business I use the en-
pression 'work inso" for = reason
and that IL To deter my readers frou
making the serious mistake oi
jumping iaso the business Of hand.
ling animals. making q great fun
and probably ~ great n faiiure
Then the next ~e hear OF them fhey
are preaching that live stock don',
pay" The South In not adapted q
the production Of live stock" etc.
while the plain fact is. iha, they
have been engaged In q business
they know absolutely nothing about
/ a business they have never mastered
either theoretically or practically.
and jet the business instead OF them
selves must be blamed for their fail
ure-
Make q Moderate Start With First.
| Class Animals.
So | say. let our people BY ali
means lay their plans for getting
live stock into their farms, but start
In at gait that they are sure thes
can keep up to the finish. Let your
start be with a few animals OF good
quality. Learn to feed, care for.
and market their increase. and when
this is done will be time enough TO
expand the business. and we will
hear Jess OF failure and more of the
grand success that will certainly at
tend the live stock business on the
farms throughout our section when
our farmers have learned the how
tant fact that the "how" needs. to
be practiced, Eot talked about, three
hundred and sixty-five days In the
year, and not for one year only. but
for term Of years.
What Animals Shall start With?
In our previous paper we talked
about the crops the stock farmer
should grow and how to utilize the
crop he is already producing whereby
he may save all the products of his
farm instead of wasting a certain
proportion as the majority of our
farmers are doing to-day where they
are not handling live stock along
with their cropping. Now, let US
consider for a time the sort of ami
mails we must employ to turn these
raw products into finished products
of the high class that the consumer
Is asking for and is willing to pay
for, as we might just as well waste
these raw products in the raw state
as to be to the trouble of feeding
them to inferior animals OF little
value that cannot pay for the feed.
There's a Demand for Young Mutton.
Take first the sheep. There is a
great demand in almost every town
in the South for good young NUT
ton lambs. We ought to be supplying
this demand, and we can IL we will
start with the right sort of founda-
tion animals and give them the prop
er feed and care. We should breed
the butcher any time after they are
three months old.
Your Breeders and How to Handle
Them.
To produce this class of lambs our
foundation animals must be of the
low block type, as leggy sheep won't
produce blocky lambs, and leggy
lambs won't fatten at an early age.
airy shed to shelter them from
storms, and when the weather is
not stormy they must be made to
hustle about the farm picking as
much of their living as possible
from the pastures. This will keep
will not be as apt to become diseased
as they would if closely confined dur
ing the winter. Then Joe Wing says
If you want to keep them from get
ting stomach worms, teach them to
chew tobacco; salt it and feed it to
them. Keep the sheep fat, as the fat
sheep is usually healthy sheep.
Five Dollars a Minute Saving the
Lambs.
When the lambs are ready to
come, be ready to save them, every
one, as you might just as well not
have a eve as to allow her lambs to
die after you have fed and cared for
her the entire year to get that lamb.
If the weather Is cold and raw, get
into your overalls, get right down on
your knees and see that the new
lamb get, his first meal all right. The
writer does this, and has raised
forty-one good lambs from thirty
ewes the present Season. We can
make five dollars per minute very
many times just acting the nurse
maid for little lambs, and that Is
more than we have ever been able t.
make sitting by the fire and allowing
the newborn lambs to freeze to
death.
Feeding and Dipping.
After the youngsters are three
weeks old they will want some grain
in trough all their own placed back
of a creep where the old ewes cans
get to it.
The ewes must be dipped each fal
for the purpose of killing ticks and
lice. Then watch the little lambs
and If you see them biting and
scratching themselves, fix up warn
dip bath the first warm day tha
comes and dip them, as lamb can
not fatten while covered with tick.
or lice. A lot of fussing, you say