The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-09-16

type of mules in the market am
not the lowest, which is the cot
ton mule. In the market we 6nC
the miners, loggers, and the sugar
mules bringing the highest prices
These are the kind we should en-.
deavor to produce. We will gel
enough of the misfits and smaller
mules to meet our local needs Ii
our endeavor to produce the best
In the market; but we are not pro.
ducing any mules of these higher
classes. We have not the mares
and to large extent we have not
the jacks. We raise our mules
now from little nondescript trot-
ting, saddle and running mares
weighing from 700 TO 1000 lbs.
Such mares cannot produce better
than cotton mules. We should
eliminate the scrub or grade stall
lion and use more draft blood. At
closest estimate that | can now
make Io per cent of the stations
in Mississippi are pure bred and
registered, 81 per cent are grades
and scrubs, and weigh from o5oto
1900 lbs. Such sires cannot give
us mares of sufficient size to pro-
duce mules of high value. We
should use good Percheron stalliQns
to grade up our native mares.
The afternoon of August 10th
was devoted to dairying.
Mr.. H. B. Gurler, who has just
recently moved to Mississippi, from
Illinois, and one of the authorities
of the country on dairying. spoke
along the following lines: After
two years study of the property 4
have purchased near Macon I am
satisfied that it is excellent grass
land. A good grass country is a
good stock country. A good stock
country when stocked with good
stock is always prosperous. A
good stock country is a good coun
try for dairying. I have excellent
pastures of lespedeza, burmuda. and
Johnson grass. Cows that / bought
last spring in very thin flesh are
now in fine, they have done prof
liable work during this season.
The time is now here when we
must stop robbing this soil of
its fertility and give it decent treat
ment, which means that we must |
keep stock, make manure and ap.
ply is to the soil. am sure there
Is profitable field here for dairy
Ing. We can and should supply |
the south with dairy products as
we can certainly do so at a good
profit and at the same time build |
up our soil. I believe that dairy
products can be produced here at
much less cost than in the North.
have a dairy of forty-fve cows
1ear Macon, Miss, that l have
'ecertly been applying the Babcock
est to and secured some interest
ng results. / have found the high
st of butter fat to be 7.2 per cent
md the lowest 2.8 per cent. The
.verage of the test for the herd
vas 4.8 per cent. We found the
highest colored milk was not the
ichest in butter fat. The least
making IA lbs of butter per day,
he poorest cow is making "a lbs.
t butter per day. Remember when
'uying bull that he is more than
lalf the herd when raising heifers
S the heifers are most likely to
axe after their sire. BY two years
{ testing individual cows In Illi-
lois. raised the yield of butter
'er COW II8 lbs.
There are dairies In the countryll
hat average 400 lbs. of butter per
mum; there should be many of
hem. Feed the skim milk to the
leifer calves while it is warm and Il
weet. Too much skim milk caus-
S scours, and when this condition
ones reduce the amount of milk
ed and scald some mild for them
S scalded milk will remedy
he looseness of the bowels.
every dairyman should build al
Ilo, as he cannot afford toll
et along without one. It Is as
as the house barn on the
arm. Il
Butter making on the farm was
iscussed by ProFs J. $. Moore,