Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1914-01-01

great climatic advantages that per-
NIT outdoor pasturing and feeding dur
ing the whole, or the greater part, of
the year, We can obtain large yields
Of oats, leguminous crops, Johnson
and Bermuda grasses, sorghum cane
hay and an abundance of corn for
making silage, the most economic
form of carbohydrates. The keep
ing of good cattle and the intelli-
gent use of thoroughly good, perman-
ent pastures and grazing crops, and
the economic use of the silo and cot
tonseed meal will make our lands rich,
keep millions of dollars at home that
are now sent to the north and west,
and make our people prosperous.
The calamity bowler says: What
about the lack of lime in the soil?" DR..
TAFT Butler, probably the best-posted
man on southern agriculture, says, in
summing up most excellent editorial
on Lime in Southern Feeds" I'VE
have shown: (1) That our soils are
not deficient in lime as regards the
plant food requirements of our crops;
(2) that plants grown in the south
grown elsewhere, and that the feed
crops of the south, especially the
legumes peculiar to the south, contain
as high per cent. OF ash as the
feed crops of other sections; (3) that
typical southern rations are those
made up Of typical southern feeds and
contain more ash than typical north
ern feeds. The conclusion is, there
fore, that while our animals fail to
get the mineral matter they need, 1t
is not because this material is de-
ficient In our feeds, but because our
animals do not get sufficient of our
feeds"
In the cotton belt, live stock farm
ing has been avoided mainly for two
reasons: "a Because all-cotton farm
ing paid better until the soil became
poor; (2) because Of the cattle tick.
Now, millions of acres are too poor
to grow cotton profltably, and we can
easily eradicate the cattle tick. Since
the work of eradicating the tick was
nearly 100000 square
miles have been cleaned for all time;
this is an area over three times as
large as Alabama. The tick Injuries
the hide, reduces the milk flow at
least ten per cent, makes 1t very diff
hcult to fatten cattle, prevents the in
PRODUCTION of good cattle to breed up
our native cattle, lowers the price of
our cattle on the markets and destroys
more than enough cattle every year
to pay for its eradication.
The invasion of the boil weevil and
the consequent reduction of the profits
Of cotton growing is forcing many
farmers to grow crops which must Of
necessity be marketed through the
agency of live stock, and 1t is the func-
ion of live stock on the farm to fur
lish market for the crops that are
grown, enabling the farmers to con-
yert grasses, forage crops, COW peas
ind soy beans, and so on, into higher
priced snished products and to return
o the soil the plant food taken from
t. The greatest need of the farmers
Il the cotton bet at present Is more
,rass and more live stock, and those
Who assist in eradicating the cattle
ick and in otherwise helping to
.reate conditions that will enable
armers to grow two good animals In
he place of one scrub Is surely as
reat benefactor as those who cause
wo blades of grass to grow where
My one grew before.
Live stock should certainly be given
prominent place in the agricultural
evelopment of the cotton belt. Next
0 having good and intelligent people
a country, good live stock 10
RELIABLY Of the most Importance