Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-05-08
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perry will practically pay for the land. The
growth can be cut down in the summer
when covered with foliage and IN the fall
or winter can easily be burned of, leaving it
in preparation for the sowing Of grass.
Within a year or so the land will have a
good crop Of grass under ordinary circum-
stances and with the proper attention will
furnish pasturage for at least nine months
In the year. Is stockraiser can prepare for
the pasturage of stock of various kinds with
out necessarily mourning any great ex-
pense and from year to year the size Of his
herds can be increased until in the course Of
q few years it viii be found that the stock
raiser has made splendid investment.
In speaking of the possibilities Of sheep
and goat raising in Henderson county, Y. G.
V Shepherd is confdentstha q small for
fune can b made in raising goats, for which
there is areadymarket in Heudersonville.
He contends that q goat never dies q natur-
al death an dthat a . was never known
to kill one. They are a hardy stock and can
live under almost any and alcircumstances.
"A large number of ~goatssepuld be bought in
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placed or pasturage and during the summer
months of June, July and August three or
four hotels IN and around Hendersonvlle
would use one goat for mutten each day. In
this way fully 300 goats could be disposed
OF to the hotels In HendersonVile during
the summer season at q fair price to say
nothing of the market at other seasons of
- -
ed at small expense by reason of the fact
that a goat can live comfortably on almost
anything during the coolest winter months.
Possibly it is well 20 rthe county that the
opinions of citizens differ on the question
of stockraising. Some favor raising one
kind Of stock and others another, therefore
If the people ever settle down to business to
avail themselves of some of the .opportuni-
ties awaiting them in various lines of stock
gu. wing, there is not a possibility of over
crowding any one line of stock.
While Mr.. Shepherd is a goat fancier,
Commissioner of Agriculture Albert Can
OIL of Horse Shoe warns up to the possibl-
tiles of hog raising in Henderson county.
He outlines the possibilities o fthe hog in
dustry in substance as follows:
Ten acres of pasture can be made at lit
tie expense and ten soWs can be placed
thereon. There will be an average of two
filters a year with eight pigs to the litter
or sixteen pigs tosthe sow, making 100 pigs
annually. Poland China pigs will weigh on
a naverage of from 225 to 275 pounds at ten
months old an dthe meat will bring about
ten cents per pound, making a total of ap-
p~roximately $4,000 annually at very little
expense. With the proper preparation the
hogs can Craze with very little extra feed
ing from the middle of April till the middle
of October, then a little feeding from the
granary will put the animals in fine shape
for the market.
The demand for well bred cattle of all
kinds has never been greater than it is to-
day and with numbers constantly diminish
ing in the west the opportunity is indeed a
rare one for the southern breeder or stock
man to both enlarge and improve his herds.
This naturally opens up a much broader
demand for pure bred animals and there is
no place in this country today where the
prospects are any brighter for success for
breeding either dairy or beef types of cattle
than IN Henderson county. Not only Hen
derson county but the entire south is awak-
ened to the fact that it must have more and
better live stock to maintain the fertility of
It's farms, and the-only way this can be
economically done is by the purchase of pure
bred sires, and nowhere in the entire coun-
try can they be raised any cheaper or better
than IN this section.
The fact that the prices viii remain good
# not increase is shown in the figures of
Secretary Wilson IN announcing that there