The farmer and mechanic., 1915-06-01
Cattle and Dairying
Continued From Page One.)

1t is a century and half since
the Tomkins family established the
Hereford cattle as a distinctive breed
and probably as long since the DeVonS
and Sussex were fixed on the firm
lines of the varieties. The ShOrthorn
came little later. when the TeesWater
cattle made a name for themselves.
The Bates herd brought out the stock
a century ago. and it has become the
most generally known probably in
the world. Now at a jump North
Carolina springs across all these years
and enters upon the creation Of herds
of modern cattle Of the various
bloods, unsuspecting a half dozen
years ago that such thing could
be done in the State. The advance in
cattle breeding in the State is destined
to be interesting on this account.
Where the progress of the entire cattle
world for a century Or more is to
be compressed into period Of half
dozen or a dozen years the results are
| bound to be as startling as the quick
advancement is. Cattle raising and
| dairying are among two of the great
agricultural occupations Of the globe.
They are Of such vast consequences
| that they shape the tone Of the people
| who engage in these lines. Countries
of the old world are marked by the
number of cattle they Craze. The
/
country has been Influenced by its
herds. Fertility Of soil, abundance Of
| food. comfdrt of the people and ma
| terial progress has followed cattle
| raising wherever it has been prac-
| ticed.
| Chief Dairying States
1t is interesting to look at a few
| extensively The chief dairying States
are Wisconsin, New York, Iowa, Penn
| sylvania, Ohio, Minnesota and Illinois.
| Vermont one of the little fellows, is a
big dairy State when it's size is fig
ured. The others run little larger
in area as rule than North Caro-
lima, one or two of them considerably
miles is not enough to affect the com
parison. Vermont is a small State.
about a sixth of the size of North
Carolina, yet Vermont makes so per
cent more butter and cheese and sells
more than twice as much milk and
cream. If North Carolina made but
ter and cheese like Vermont does this
would be the greatest butter State Of
the Union.
I Wisconsin and North Carolina are
almost the same in size. and almos'
the same in popuiation: pod anu Wisconsin
a year, and North Carolina sells les.
than $6,000,000 worth a year. Wis
consin makes 131, 100000 pounds O.
butter a year and North Caroline
makes 26,00O,000. Wisconsin makes
50,0oo,000 pounds of cheese a year
4 York and Pennsylvania are botl
smaller in area than North Carolina
: but New York sells thirteen times a,
many dollars worth Of milk ant
: cream as this State and Pennsylvania
t sells nearly eight times as much ant
:. both those States make butted ant
I cheese in enormous quantities.
t Value of Milk Crop.
0 We congratulate ourselves on tn,
money our cotton crop brings, but New
t Ork's dairy crop makes our cOttO1
e crop look insignificant. Vermont
|. milk crop and North Carolina's to
p bacco crop are about the same value
North Carolina as big one. Pennsyl
h vania's milk crop is worth more thar
0 all the grain Of all kinds raised il
r North Carolina, yet North Carolina
n a right successful grain State. An
K While Pennsylvania is making a mill
n crop worth more than the grain GRO
e or this State Pennsylvania is maxim
= a crop crop Just about twice as big a
our grain crop, and Pennsylvania
a not so big State as North Carolina
;e This is mentioned merely to shoy
le the possibilities Of the State that take
~ up Ualy I<OTIn carolina
n cotton State and will be a cotto
State, for cotton is nice crop t
d plant and work. But North Carolin
le is just as good for dairying as it
is for cotton, and the market for dair
products is just as good in Mort
le carolina as the market is for cotto1
lie This dairying movement that ha
S. started has opened a possibility tha
IN is as big as any line Of Industry tina
ID has been developed in the State. An
lie that being the case it is reasonabl
e. 70 look forward to the results of tn
IN of the budding creamery and crea,
o. routes with unlimited confidence Ne,
York, Wisconsin and PENNSYLVANIA ar
st the three leading milk producin
I'd states Of the Union, and they are
ne section OF the country that has
ce contend with a rigorous climate No
a 7 ork is SO cold that in some sectior
even the little yellow flint corn thu
natures in ninety days will not rina1
n o~l-