The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-25
Vol. 81, No. ~
The Right Kind of Stock and the Riqht
Kind of SfOckmen
". F. MASSEY IN PROGRESSIVE FARMER

AS the editor says, the keeping Of
live stock for profit depends as much
on the man as anything else. It also
depends on the kind of stock raised.
There is little profit in feeding scrub
cattle for beef, and less in raising
| razor-back hogs that require two years
to make pork. But the man who lets
his cattle run out all winter under the
lee OF the barn or straw stacks needs
nothing but scrubs, and will find lit
tie profit in keeping cattle
Improved animals that have been
carefully bred for the making OF the
best beef or the best dairy products,
need the best care; and the pigs that
make pork in six to eight months
need also better care than the piney
woods ranger. In this good care and
good feeding with the best Of forage
lies the profit
Don't Depend on Corn Alone for Hogs.
It does not pay to raise hogs on
corn alone, but where they are sup
piled with a constant succession or
green food that they can gather for
themselves, it takes but little corn to
finish off the pork; and there is no
part of the country where hogs can
be grown so easily and cheaply as
in the South, since we can provide
something for them to eat from the
field every month in the year.
Inen IL the laws pIOlecllllS DuIAeti dS
are repealed, we will have little hog
cholera for the buzzards are the
greatest of all carriers Of this disease,
and should be vigorously kept from
the farm by seeing that all dead ami
mails are buried out of their reach
and all food Of any sort that may at
tract them burned or buried. They
will come after the household slops,
if these are not eaten by the hogs or
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Get Dairy Breeds for the Dairy. Beef
There has been a great deal said
about the dual-purpose COW, but the
fact remains that there is no animal
that will give the best in dairy prod
ucts and at the same time make the
best beef. The two characters are SO
completely antagonistic that the union
of both in one animal is impossible. 1T
your interest is in dairy products,
then get the animals that have been
bred for the best dairy production On
the other hand, if you are lntereSted
in beef get the best beef blood. the
animals that top the market for beef.
I know of no breed that suits the
South better than the Polled Angus,
which has topped the beef markets
more frequently than any other beef
animal
If you want to make butter, get
Jerseys or Guernseys; if milk is the
object. get the Holstein-F'resians. The
people talk great deal
about raising fine veal calves, but
could never see the profit in sacrlhc-
ing S25 worth of milk or butter 10
raise a SO calf. The dairyman can
better afford to give away all his male
calves.
Where 1t Brings Most.
When | was breeding up dairy
herd using a full -blooded Jersey bull
on selected common COWS, L sold all
male calves to neighbOr for 81
head and thought it prOfita bic to do
so as / saved the milk that the calf
would have eaten, and only had to
raise my selected heifers.
The beef-bred animal makes the
best beef because he is built that way,
and the dairy bred animal that gains
live weight as fast as the beef-breed
animal. is not built that way, but stores
the fat inside in tallOW. His slaught-
cred carcass not only does not make
the same proportion in weight Of meat,
but does not make the broad IONS.
the high priced beef, that the beef
bred animal does.