The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-10-30

already In the South to make q start
with, though most unevenly distribut-
ed and varying greatly in quality and
size. as shown BY their number In
proportion to population and value at
the farm. For instance. North Caro-
lima has about one head to six OF
population-value $3.50: Georgia,
eIoIt one head to four Of population
value. $40; Miss!ppi. about one
head TO three OF population-value
$40: Oklahoma, about one head to one
and one third OF population-value,
S2l.5O, and Texas, about one and one
third head TO one Of population.-val-
ue, sl7
II the older cotton States had as
many cattle in proportion TO popula-
tion as Oklahoma and Texas land the
same sort of Cattle) as they might
have by natural increase with pure
blood beef sires in ten years without
importation, the beef problem would
be solved
1t is not cotton mania that has pre-
vented an abundance OF good cattle in
the old cotton states, but partly the
presence, partly the injury wrought by
the cattle tick, but chiefly ignorance
and Indifference. Intensive cattle
raising with the minimum of pasture
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and carried TO the cattle, coupled with
intensive cotton production with com
mercial fertilizer, is the greatest aid
we have TO cotton growing. and it will
be along this line that the old cotton
states will be induced TO grow cat
tie. The government is already peck
ing at the cattle tick by counties with
mild aid from county and state. A
vigorous campaign by National and
State governments with men and mon
ey behind IL could eradicate the cattle
tick completely and forever from the
United States in one year. A cam
paign OF education equally able and
vigorous for the same length OF time
would convert the South to cattle
raising of the right sort. not in place
OF, but in aid OF cotton growing.
There is not consumer of beef
in the United States, nor packing
house in the country, cotton mill,
oil mill, fertilizer factory, merchant,
planter or banker in the south that
would not be greatly beenfited by two
such joint movements"
Just at this season of the year, when
the people OF the south think more OF
progressive methods in agriculture
than at any other time, it seems to
us that this editorial o. the Scientific
American is very timely. With our
own county fair last week and with
the county and state fairs all over
the south. the people are giving more
attention than at any other time to
increasing the yields on the farm and
especially to the increase in the effi-
cheney in the production OF stock
With broad view OF the whole stu
alton, this great national authority
upon scientific matters seems to go
at the very bottom OF the trouble to-
day. the high cost or food products,
and 1t seems to us that its conclusions
cannot be contradicted. If cotton
growing and cattle raising were con-
Quoted in the south as the Scientific
American suggests. our own problems
would be solved as we'll as the prob
lens of millions of others.
1t should be gratifying to every
South Carolinian to know that his
state is singled out among all other
Southern states as the one most pro-
gressive in intensive farming. though
this record is made on cotton.