The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-03-25
BIO,

The Berkshires Of Pinehu 'Sve a
pedigree longer than the Car OF Rus
Sla. and possibly they are doing more
Tor the good of the country than the
monarch. although this is not said to
hurt the feelings Of the Russian ruler,
for personally think he is real nice
man, l simply speak for the hogs,
which, as Editor Smith, Of the Hoop
pole Banner, says, are our own coun-
trymen and neighbors
The need of reliable milk supply
| qualitative and Quantitative (turn back
!, to your chemistry for that expression
| II you are in dOubt) led to starting a
dairy. This resulted in some innOva-
1 tlohs. 1t brought into the state a lot
OF fine Ayrshire cattle, which are ideal
! farm cows Not SO much butter g the
Jersey. but more milk. Not SO much
milk as the Holstein. but richer milk
Better farm cows than either Of the
others. if milk and butter both are
wanted.
A hundred or more cows at the
dairy, which is a model plant, contrib
ute lot of fine calves for the farm
ers fthe neighborhood. and Pine
hurst is making the farm stock of this
section look like some Of the pictures
that hang above the parlor organ to
give the house a tone. All the calves
not needed to replace the cows that
are retired from the Pinehurst dairy
go out to the farms 20 supplant the
razor-back COW who has been or
guard for so many years. This makes
the farmer take a different view Of the
cattle question, and James Tufts biil.
anthrOpic movement has taken sha pc
in this respect.
When Ole Bull, tho famous musi
clan, was in his prime, he bought q
vast estate in the Pennsylvania woods
and undertook to found a colony o1
his people. Henry Clay was interest &c
in the movement and sent fine bull
up from Kentucky. The posterity OF
that bull marked the cattle Of North.
: ern Pennsylvania up to a few years
ago, giving to the country around the
! colony the highest reputation for gooC
cattle. Pinehurst is sending out calve.
! every few days to impress the stocl
| Of North Carolina, and it must be tina
this addition to the stock Of the Stat
t now that the ticks are cleaned out O.
this part Of the State, will be worth
thousands and thousands Of dollars.
| Horses are also raised a Pinehurst
big ones being favored exclusively
-Four heavy horses work on a three
bottom gang plOw, turning the. sol
/ seven inches deep. and three and :
half feet at each round, one man driv
s Ing. 1n1S Is q CONTRAST WITH the on
Y narrow, shallow furrOw made by on
man and one mule and Dixie plow
But the farmers do not take to tn
S heavy plow horses as they do to tn
. better cattle and hogs. and here is on
: place that Pinehurst has not made
s great impression.
!. The attempt to raise poultry wa
); not successful on this big farm. Fo
r seven years. with a model plant, i
/, the hands of expert poultry men. wit
:. facilities for caring for fifteen hun
t dred to two thousand hens, no salts
factory results were reached. Tn
|, chickens, Mr.. Tufts says, did not la
c as we'll as they should, did not increas
e as weu as they should, and died bette
e than they should"
d The poultry plant was abandone e6
# It is the only thing at Pinehurst tina
e has been given up because it Woui
: not pay its way.
t The advocates Of what Is called tn
. poultry business by those who hay
= ionce1 to get into il should take no
l. tice. This ambition called the pout tr