The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-10-20

prosperous farmer in Georgia. He
says: Il want to tell you what / did
on one forty acre tract last season.
| 1t had been cropped in cotton for
seventy consecutive years-every-
thing taken off and nothing put
back. plowed it deep and sowed
it to winter rust-proof oats in De-
cember; in June | harvested and
threshed from the forty acres 1900
bushels of oats, which sold for
| 75e per bushel ($900.) | then
plowed and sowed the same forty
acres to cowpeas, and harvested
| and threshed $50 bushels of peas,
which l sold for $3.50. per bushel
$3.50, and | sold the pea vine hay
for SIS per ton. Figure this up and
see how it will compare with what
is grown on Canada or New York
land worth from 500 to $500 per
acre" This young Canadian farm
err, now located in the south, has
resuscitated an old, apparently
wornout plantation and grows
three splendid stock food CROPS
oats, cowpeas and peavine hay
on the same ground in one season.
Most of the farmers engaged in the
live stock industry north of the
Ohio river are well satisfied if each
season they can get one fairly good
crop
"On the first of the month, Mr..
Gordon again wrote as follows: II
have an excellent crop this year all
around; threshed 1000 bushels of
oats. Most of my corn is good for
fifty bushels per acre. | am in the
mule business-h have my own jack
and ten brood mares. Sold six three
year-olds last spring. Have TWEEN
! ty-seven head Of mules and mares
on hand at present. Will send you
picture of prize pair of mules
four months old; also of my hun
vi Cu-dCI6 Odl lI6lu. L COuIu re-
count numerous other incidents of
what is being done by northern
farmers now located in the south in
the way of growing food products,
always so necessary in the develop
ment of the live stock industry in
any country.
Let me emphasize the thought
that from "a food standpoint for
stock, no section of this country is
comparable with the south.
Good water and plenty of it IS
the second essential condition
wherever stock growing is carried
on with success. In this particular
the south is especially favored, as
nearly all of the southern states are
supplied with springs and running
| streams. We have an annual rain
fall of more than fifty inches, and
in many localities artesian wells
may be had at a depth of 200 to 500
it,, furnishing an abundance of the
purest water, which, without the
aid of expensive gasoline engines or
windmills, is being carried in pipes
laid on top of the ground to barns,
. barnyards and fields
"The third, and what regard as
the most important condition essen
tial to stock growing, either north
or south, is health. The live stock
industry will not be maintained
with any degree of success in any
| locality where disease peculiar to
stock cannot be cured Or controlled.
Every cattle breeder is familiar
with the fact that the south, not
withsanding it's great variety of
food products and it's splendid sup
ply of water, is now and always has
been handicapped for two we'll
known diseases, to which l have be-
fore referred to in newspaper col
umns-ticks, or Texas fever, in cat
tie, and hookworn, or laziness, in
cattle caretakers, one about as SER
ious as the other, and both of them
now recognized by the general gov
eminent as a menace to the south
and in fair way to be eradicated
When this is accomplished, | un-
hesitatingly say that no section of
the country can offer greater in
ducements to stock raisers. -
DAVID H. KIRKLAND,
Atlanta, Oct 8, 1916"