The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-11-01
The South Needs Live Stock
By G. p. Adams

that have added glory to the Ameri-
can trotter, which shows that we can
produce quality and endurance. l see
some as good home-raised mules in
Alabama and Mississippi as l have
ever seen in Kentucky or Missouri.
The Mississippi Experiment Station
has shown us conclusively, after ex-
tensive and thorough experiments,
to three years old is SIC, which in.
cludes the cost of wintering the mare
when she is carrying the foal and the
jack fee. We are working home
raised mules here at Bates Farm,
Alabama, from where | write, that
never saw an ear of corn or other
grain until they were three years old,
and defy any man to pick out the
home-raised from the good Kentucky
mules we also work.
1t is an established fact that hogs
can be produced in the South, by TAX
ing advantage of the many forage and
pasture crops, at from one to two
cents cheaper per pound than in the
North, and | will also state that
diseases dreaded for this class of live
stock are less prevalent here than
there, thereby eliminating much of
the risk that the Northern breeder is
heir to. have established as an ex.
pertinent small herd of Durocs here
at Bates Farm and | can say candidly
that my spring pigs compare favor
ably with those in the corn belt and |
am sure | have succeeded in getting
this excellent growth at a smaller cost
than they have. Mr.. H. B. Gurler for
merly of Illinois, but now of Macon,
Miss, says II am sure | can raise
hogs cheaper than did in Illinois,"
Mr. Gurler, who is one of the best
authorities on dairying in the United
States, says of this industry in this
section: 81 find dairying more prof
liable here than in Illinois. Cheap
land, short winters, cheap labor and
good prices for dairy products are the
advantages we have over the North in
this line" | will say that the herd
of Jerseys at Bates Farm is an exam
pie of what can be done with this
breed of cattle in the South. The herd
has been established for thirty years
and in the last quarter of century
there have not been a half dozen fe |
males brought to the plantation. The |
cows that go to make up the herd of |
with one exception. An evidence of /
what the result has been is best dem !
Onstrated by the fact that in 1903 Mr. !
Bates took ten head to the National |
Dairy Show at Chicago, where he won
eight prizes in competition with some
Of the best imported and American
bred herds in the country. There
we're those who did not want to be- |
ieve that these cattle were raised in .
he South The average gross earn
ngs of this herd per annum for the /
past three years, with butter fat at
10 cents per pound has been $12O on .
he ordinary herd treatment, and in
GUIDED in the herd have been and are .
At this time two two-year-olds and .
COWS well up in their teens. In addi- .
ion the amount mentioned, is each .
ears promising crop of heifer calves /
The beef cattle industry is allu1ing
n many parts of the South and those .
Who are engaged in it along practical
ines are engaged in it along practical .
ines are meeting with marked sue
cess. Shipments of cattle from Ala
)ama to st. Louis and Cincinnati this .
'ear have in several instances brought .
PRICES that were we'll up to the top of
he market.
There is certainly no reason why
,attle will not pay in most sections of
he South, for if attempted along prop
n lines there is no other country that
AN have better pastures. Bermuda.
espedeza and bur clover form com
'ination that has no equal that have
cen The trouble is that the deiini-
ion OF pasture to most people in the
South is piece of land they can
make no other use of with two strands
# barbed wire around it. The pas
ures of the South would make anoth-
# story, however, and space will not
'ermit me to deal with it here. Where
he attempt has been made they have