The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
MONEY DEFICIT $13,5OO, 900
Time Soon Will Be Here, at
Present Rate, When Meat
Will Be a Luxury Instead of
a Regular Everyday Article
of Food; The KookWorm
Problem
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:. r.. WINTERS.
Chapel Hill, Nov. THE enact
ment Of the philosophy Of Malthus,
the English economist, who commended
that our population was increasing at
a greater rapidity than the produc-
ton Of our foodstuffs seems particu-
larly applicable to the diminishing
meat supply in North Carolina since
1860. The topic Of North Cardinals
diminishing Meat Supply"-the sub
ject of the North Carolina Club
meeting-with j. M. Daniels, Jr., Of
Davidson county, leading the discus
sion, indicated hat North Cardinals
yearly meat deficit was 80, 900, 900
pounds, embracing Il money deficit Of
thirteen and one-half million dollars.
North Cardinals diminishing meat
supply for the fifty-year period from
1860 TO 1910 is so marked thai the
continuation of this stride insures the
introduction Of the condition existing
in Europe-when the laboring man
will be served meat only twice a week
on the table and it will be counted
a delicacy rather than everyday
grub" The United States census Of
1860 recorded the number of cattle in
North Carolina as 0 1851; fifty years
later the figures show the total num-
Der of cattle in the State as 737,389-
representing a decrease Of 96,662 or a
decreased percentage of practically 9
per cent during the fifty years. The
number of sheep in 1850 was 546.749;
in 1910. 214,473-a decrease Of sixty
one per cent. Poultry figures in 1880
showed a total of 2.969,456; in 1910.
SOFAS The number of swine in
1860 was 1.SS3,214: in 1910, 1,277,-
S66-a decrease of thirty-two per
cent.
In the meantime, population has in
creased at a phenomenal rate, During
the tfty-year period the growth of
folks to feed has jumped from $685.
622 TO 2.206. 2S7-an increase of 1872
per cent. This relative comparison
OF the decreasing supply with the
marked growth Of population forces
into action h immutable law of sup
ply and demand. The insistent de-
mand for meat just now accounts for
the prevailing condition Of cattle and
hogs selling for a greater price on
foot per pound in Chicago han the
market price paid for dressed weights
on the Chicago market Immediately
following the Civil War, with its at
tendant circumstance of a meat fam
the. The prevailing shortage of a
meat supply in the country is respon-
slhle for a statement made sometime
ago by the president Of the American
Parkers' Association when he de-
clared that he expected to see the
tlme when p~orterhouse steak would
fetch q dollar q pound.
n countrywide meat status in
Ntes the South and North Carolina il
particular to the growing of cattle
hoSs and sheep. Its natural advan
tages of climate, long summers
abundant water supply, grass ant
Verdant ~pasturage are conducive tt
successful and profitable development
OF the livestock industry. The un
occupied and unproductive area
stretching across the South, here ant
there. could be utilized in buildin,
up this industry II supplying tn
meat defect which is 50 pronounced il
me South and North Carolina. TIL
~Nrisation, subdivision and ntensif
eaton OF the western ranches ar
methods that are serving to abolisl
me longtime industry Of n cattle
Moreover, figures certify that porI
can be produced in the South at
cost OF from three to five cents, Will
the same quality costs the farmer Q
'he Middle West from seven to eigh
cents u pound gross.
IN North Carolina there are mi
TOUR counties-Alleghany. Cherokee
lay and Ashe--that produce a stuff
,.ency of food products for farm us
meat corn. cattle and wheat are tn
principal .crops-with cattle an
nominy the all-time slogan. TIL
iarmer produces feed and foodstuf
vi abundance, with SURPRISES fC
marketing. Allegheny has a create
percentage of cattle to the Loo
acres of and than any other count
me State-the ratio being 81 ca
y" lo the one thousand acres.
ms type of farming will insu1
ornament prosperity in North Car
ma while the one-crop, arm tenan
.Viiization spells disaster at evel
urn Of the lane.
The HOokwornI Campaign.