Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-05-11
STOCK GROWING

Mrs. Wm. BrcathWitt)

hlHS AOltOn Will nave to felln4UlSll part of his hitherto absolute domain ! to pursuits that yield q larger profit
 and produce more satisfactory condi- i tions of farming. Cotton asSOcia tiOns everywhere are advocating decrease ] in cotton acreage, and are urging the
 adoption of some substitute that will
 replenish the depleted purse of. the ] farmer and restore to the long worn out soil it's pristine fertility and pro- ] ductivity.
 1 The plan that is now being gencr- i ally promulgated throughout the South 1 is the diversification of crops and the growing of stock. Packing plants are 1 among all classes of people in favor of them is rapidly being stimulated.
 It has been demonstrated at one Of | the great universities of the North
 west that on equal tracts of land, equal in fertility. and worked under i the same general conditions, that land
 
 in a period of ten years, produces more of an aggregate crop than does | it's companion tract worked every year for period of ten years.
 Impress this fact upon the mind of the farmer and the question that is bound to follow is. What am I go- ing to do for livlihood in the in terim that my land is idle?'' Raise stock. Pasture your stock on this land Plant leguminous plants,
 rich in nitrogen, to replenish that great source of protoplasmic activity
 Your profits will be certain. Do not misunderstood this, however, as a doctrine to be applied to the whole of farm at one time Divide it into sections, still raising cotton, but change the portion planted at certain stated intervals, not too long apart.
 No statistics have been furnished l to prove what has been said above. Time and space preclude such. The law of diminishing returns applied to agriculture needs no figures to prove it's validity, however abundant may be the facts shown by all the reports of agricultural schools and colleges, the reports of the government of it's in- vestigations, and the examples of prac- tical faremrs.
 What we want to impress upon the minds of the readers of this article is that stock is of various grades and that the measures of profit varies in l versely with the grade of stock raised Stock raising is a thing of the past Stock growing is rapidly superceding | it, and has been reduced to an exact science. The advocacy of stock rais- | ing 0 ma higher plane is the raison detre of this article, and we hope the next few years will see a revolution vast in territory covered take place
 in the stock growing world and that all haphazard raising of indiscriminate
 breeds of stock will cease for good and all.
 l During the past year much has
 been done at the University of Arkan-
 sas by the Bureau of Animal Industry 1 to get the farmers of the state in-
 terested in more and better stock, and
 believing that teaching by precept is
 the most valuable, they have increas-
 ed the numbers of their own high
 bred stock with the view to laying
 the foundation for developing repre-
 sentative herds of the different breeds with the hopes of placing in the han0s of the farmers of the state source 1 from which to improve their individual breeds at a very reasonable rate. I In the matter of horses and mules little has been done up to the pres ent The importation of several fine Percherons into the state, both by private individuals and the university, leads us to believe that in the next few years much will be done along } this line of improvement.
 We hope that mules will receive a
 great deal more attention and would
 one stop to think that the mule is
 the best moneymaker for the farmer i that boards on his place, the growing of the mwould be followed with much more assiduity.
 The Southerners are the greatest meat eaters in the world Yet they give less attention to the growing of stock than one would expect from that fact. Arkansas people have been es- pecially negligent in this more so
 than any other state. It is time for
 them to come out of this lethargy
 and they are doing so. The stimulus
 that has been lacking in the way of rAadv market is now an assured