El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-20
FARM CONGRESS
DOWN To WORK
Prominent Speakers On Soil
and Farm Subjects Are
Heard.

Z tF- Allt case IT The same rrunS were
sold Otherwise il would not be profit
able TO feed cows and sell milk @.
Iced steers and sell beef. To- feed lambs
and sell mutton to feed chickens AN,
sell eggs. etc When this is not Tn,
case. there is something wrong witt
the market Tor animaIs ana auima
! products.
Then again is the matter Of asso.
( citation with livestock: any boy reared
! away from livestock has missed q
( fundamental part OF MS general edu-
I cation Every boy and girl are nat
/ urally admirers Of livestock and should
learn their habits and their needs boy
! growing up with them. Livestock
! farming. therefore. IS uOt only the key
/ TO the problem Of permanent agri-
I culture but Is the type of farming
! which is most conductive to health and
I happiness in the country
J Profit in Stock Raising.
1t IS the duty Of this and every
other organization for the advancement
OF agriculture 10 bring the farmer ana
! the ranchman who produces feeders.
together. The farmer should be taught
- buy feeder steers. hogs or sheep.
and finish them on his place. This
practice viii build up soils Just as
surely as il the feeder stock We're pro-
Quoted instead OF bought. Farmer
feeders are not uncommon in the corn
belt. but We have very few OF them
in the south. and not enough Of them
in the semi-arid country. possibly be-
cause feeding has been possible in the
seml-arld region only for the past few
years or since kafir. milo ferterita.
sorghum and sudan grass were intro
duced by the government
Waste Materials Sod.
livestock Is especially efficient in
converting materials which would or
dinarily go to waste. into valuable
products. Poultry. for instance con-
verts grasses. insects and wasted grain
into eggs and meat Sheep convert
grass and weeds into mutton and wool
and at the same time make better
pastures for other livestock Angora
goats on the farm convert brush and
weeds into mohair ana meat and IL
enough OF them are kept 10 the acre,
they Will clear the land and kill the
stumpS The dairy COW is especially
efficient as q manufacturer OF human
food, and there is room for her on
every farm and ranch in the country.
Not only IS stock farming best for
the farm and for the farmer and his
family. but IL IS favored by American
conditions and ideals The human be-
ing is naturally omniverOus. and will
continue TO eat meat with his bread
as long as he can No one substitutes
beans for meat except in cases Of ne
cessity- Any man able To do so is
going TO pay the price for milk and I
butter poultry and eggs, fresh and !
cured meats and such is the prosperity |
OF this country that. the proper relation ]
Of things maintaining. no man Will 90 |
very long without them. As long as I
this is the case stock farming viii /
continue to be not only one OF the |
most popular. but one OF the most /
profitable types Of farming which a 4
man can follow"
President Jardine announced that /
Sen Jacinto Trevino's Mexican board
would appear at the meeting this aft
srnOon- T
Africa Ahead Of Us.
Col A j. Bester. representative OF
;Outh Africa. who has been living in
rexas for some time, was the next
peaker.
I came to this country in 1912 he
aid. as a representative OF the South
Africa Farmers congress. because we
we're not getting a large enough pro-
uctiOn from our soil 7 have trav-
led over this country. and ] believe
outh Africa is 300 years ahead of
his country in stock raising.
The Panhandle of Texas is as good |
country as have seen 7 have 5000
ores on which I am experimenting at
'ovina- / went to South Africa and |
OF seven kinds Of eucalyptus trees, I
-hich 1 planted in April.
PIOw Deep.
The farmer here must have money I
D sink into the ground, and time to I
evelop it. Talk about stock raising |
VI here-why, you have the finest |
his land for from SO to $50 an acre }
on must pillow deep, and plant trees
D the wind will not blow the humus
ut Of the soil The eucalyptus IS the
y also viii cause rainfall
We mustn't speculate with our
rms. We want people who will stay J
18th the game This is country for
versified farming
Farmers Who Read. Prosper
John W Wilkinson. state supervisor
,rm and home study clubs, Of !
Ouisiana. spoke upon educating the
rmer at the session this afternoon |
In this enlightened age there is !
arcely any intelligent person who |
les not appreciate the value Of read
. and keeping himself posted" said I
= The man who reads is usually !
IL one who succeeds. When I go
II I judge good deal by the aD-
.arance of the mans farm II every
ing is kept up slick and neat, and
e tools under cover. and the women
ell satisfied. I know 7 have a bust
IS farmer to deal with He usually
per. and watches the market. and it
III be hard to fool him on the value
his stock.
Keep Posted.
Every farmer should keep himself |
sted day by day. or week by week,
out market prices He ought TO know |
nat is being paid for stock OF grain |
d have these facts constantly i'm
csc market reports intelligently and I
should be a good enough judge Of /
e stock TO know whether his cattle /
hogs measure up to the require
a.
In a canvass conducted in Susque-
ma, Penn, IL was found that in 80
rds Of 663 cows all owners of dairy
pc herds We're readers and that
2 average net profit OF the dairy
pc herds was u times that OF the
ners Of scrubs who did not read.
In a canvass in Onandago county. I
y. out Of so herds Of cows the
uers who were readers trceived /
3rly three times the average net !
fit of the nOn-raders while the
10 of profitable to Improbable
-ds among the readers was more I
IN twice as great as the CORE
'ndinC ratio among the non-read-
Many similar instances were /
Cotton For Southwest
Cotton as "a Dry Land Crop for the J
Ithwest.' was the subject of an ad-
s. this afternoon before the con-
IS by g H. Leidigh. Of the Texas
eriment station
Cotton Is the most important fiber
Mt Of the world il is widely
pied and is distributed throughout
ctically all warm climates as
-ivated CROP he said Y
The climatic features Of the Texas N
farming region are only different 2
m those Of the other plains states
that there Is little winter and
n longer warm period in summer. Q -
a consequence Of the lack Of cold
wen amount Of rainfall is Of less
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