The farmer and mechanic., 1914-08-18

tity was shattered off. This is not
saIable kind of corn. and last winter |
beginning February 2, an experiment |
was undertaken with ten shoats on
this shattered corn. The ShcatS were
run on pasture, some of it rape, some |
oats and skim milk was fed with the
other ration In period of "a days
the shoats gained an average OF al
most a pound day. Some OF them
went over a pound a day. MIR. Shook
figured out the cost of the feed used,
and after counting it, and the price
of the pork gained he puts the pr1ce
realized for the shattered corn at an
average of 81 cents bushel
a Pressing Problem.
The State Agricultural Department,
as we'll as the Experiment Station, are
| taking up these problems Of making
meat on the farms for it has become
one of the most pressing problems OF
| the world today. The interruption OF
| commerce brought about by the out
| break of war puts a new perspective
| on the meat supply of our own com
| try as well as on that of the world,
| for the United States has arrived at a
place where it no longer produces
| sufficient meat for it's own needs, and
| the importation OF meat from South
America has begun. Thirteen years ago
| when I was writer on the PittSburS
| Times the rising price of meat began
to disturb the country. ! was assign
ed to make an investigation of the
causes, and | went over the ground at
the packing houses and at the farms
and at the wholesale and retail mar
| kets. When the task was finished 1
saw clearly that the United States
could no longer keep up with the de-
mand for cheap meat, and that the
supply must come henceforth from
the farms. The conclusions were not
&C.
pie who were Of the impression that
the packers were responsible for the
advances, but now the situation is bet
ter understood.
Prices have gone up materially OF
late, and you can feel pretty sure that
meat has gone up to stay up, and that
, it will be more likely to go higher in
the future than to go lower, because
, it must bring a price sufficient to
tempt the farmer to raise it if it is tC
, be had.
. 1t begins to look as if the farms OF
North Carolina are to embark in the
> production of animal products on q
gradually increasing scale. Fifteer
years ago man who had asked where
he could find good breeding stock ir
!. this section of the State would be tol(
:, | that he was seeking for the impOssi
2 bic. Today if the hog raiser shoule
| make inquiry for good blood he woult
De referred dl once 10 d dozen or NOR
men in every neighbOrhood who woult
!, be able to provide him with reason
, ably good animals, and here and ther,
- over the two or three counties WOult
be suggested the names of men VIII,
:. can provide prize winners.
= We begin to hear Of a Jersey her,
= at one farm, an Ayrshire at another,
y y Hereford bull at another place, an,
- in various sections Of the counties lit
tie groups forming of farmers who ar
>. inclining toward some particula
- breed. 1t is the case in hogs as we
- as in cattle.
=, Cows More Valuable
- Malcolm Mclean is substantie
q farmer out few miles from Raefort
He lost COW the other day. A neigh
- Dor asked him if she was valuable. "
~ would probably have refused hur
q dred and twenty-five dollars for her,
MIR. Mclean answered A dozen yeaI
. ago thirty dollars was regarded 3
" about the top price for a COW dow
- q here in the sandhill country, and pro
VI badly it was right good price Il
:. cows as cows went in most parts
~ the State But the COWS here now al
~ different COWS, and different prices al
ol N effect Scrubs are left too many
iie them, but they are grading up, and
As, most punches of cattle you can 81
ell the typical markings of the bett'
breeds.
'ss The war has brought several thinl
on into notice. The first is that whi
an North Carolina is one of the most sci
re dependent States in the country, a Ii
iys tie readjustn.ent of industries wou
m, not be a bad thing. The increase
interest shown all over the State
making meat is a good thing. If mo
zee North Carolina farmers were doil
vs. like some Of these HOke county farT
ers the State would be in better sha
70 xxrff \, tor a h< al 10
Old that war may give rise to.
alf North Carolina can provide t
for things needed for home use. II is lih
ice Iy that the day of more general pr
tfuction is not far distant, for the
for crease OF mills invites the increase
the ways to provide for them. The opini
nut of cotton men seems to be that I
his war if continued any length of til
III is destined to increase the export ira
ran Of manufactured cotton. With sevel
the Of the European countries stoppi
of their cotton mills the foreign mi
u Of 10 ave their trade open to the Anleric