St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-09-09
THE HIGHEST TYPE OF FARMING
WHY NOT PREPARE YOUR
SELF FOR 1T?

This Young Peoples Special, but
y since the young people Of to-day will
DO grown-up people of tomorrow,
we feel that we can not do better
thing for our Progressive Farmer
boys, than to call their attention to
~~sonc line of farming which has been
all too generally neglected in the
= ,outh. We refer to live stock rails
TOf course, all farms have more or
.,ss live stock on them; but what we
Nan is thus: Most farmers in the
Nth do not keep as many farm
mals as they should; they do not
4 Ep animals of the best quality, and
3y do not care and look after and
3e their animals as they should.
Too many farmers think that they
S.. bed no other stock than the mules
N.<hey must have to tend their crops,
J. q cow or two to furnish milk, two or
three hogs to kill and little flock
OF poultry. Now, we believe that this
is wrong idea. Let us tell you
why.
In the first place, you know you
must have good land if you make
good crops. Well, it is matter OF
common experiences fact proved
too often to be successfully question
ed-that it is easier to keep land
rood. or to make it good, when a
large part of the crops are fed to
live stock than when they are sold
oil. If you feed your gram and hay
to cattle and sell the milk and but
tel. you take less from your land If
you sold the hay and grain.
Again, if you raise cotton to sell
to buy meat and lard, your only
chance to get profit is on the
cotton. You must pay a profit to
the man who raised the hog. to the
man who killed it, to all the men
who handled it before you bought 1t.
when you raise. the hog yourseIT
you get all these profits yourself.
Once again, if you have plenty OF
work stock, you can do better farm
work and do it easier and quicker
than if you lack team force. IL is
cheaper to plow with three horses,
than with one.
Other reasons might be given why
more live stock are needed on South
ern farms, but these ought to be
enough. When the boys who read
this grow up and begin farming for
themselves we want them to remem-
he- this one point: The farmer who
keeps plenty of good live stock can
do his work easier and better. can
get a bigger profit out of the crops
he grows, and can improve his land
at much less expense than can the
man who does not.
But it Is not only the more farm
animals we need. We must have
better ones. Go to any section where
tho farmers keep pure-bred cattle or
horses or hogs and see II you 90 not
find better lands, better houses, bet
ter farming generally, than in those
sections where they keep just any
did kind of stock. You know your
self, if you have colt, q calf, plg'
or a chicken that is little better
than the common run-one that you
1 would be proud to take to- your
county fair, let us say-that you
take more pride in and get more
satisfaction out of this one amman
than you would out of two or three
scrubs. When you go raising i've
I stock, get good stock. There is more
money in that kind and more satis-
{ faction. ).
Remember this, though: Even II
Won were able to buy the hlghest
4 priced animals III youi oee.S' 1ll-s -
you knew how to feed and care Tor
them, and unless you had interest
in and feeling for them, they would
not retain their good looks and their
usefulness long. It takes good care
and good feeding to make good AMI,
mails, or to keep them good; ana
the boy who expects to be STOCK,
man can not being too early TO ma
out about the stock on his farm. %
learn how to feed them, the sort Of
care they need, what they IKE a gnu
i dislike. and all such things. One
who is not kind to his animals Will
not make success with them
Live tsock farming Is the highest
type Of farming. the one calling TOT
the most care on the part q Ihe
farmer. and the one yielding the
greatest returns. It is very unfortu- z