The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-11-15
ADVICE ON STOCK FARMING
BY ONE WHO KNOWS
By DAVID n. KIRKLAND.

| BY DAVlD RI. NlRNEAINOs
Atlanta. Nov. 8.-Horace Greedy dis
played true precedence when he said
"By and by, it will be generally re-
allied that few men live, or have liv-
ed, who cannot find scope and profita-
BILE employment for all their intellect
on a 200-acre farm"
In the early sixties the plantations
and farms of the south were largely
owned by gentlemen of means and OPP
Grated by negro slaves, who were
adopts in the growing of cotton, cane
and tobacco. With this kind of labor
these three Industries were so prof
table that little thought or attention
were paid to the growing of other
crops, or to investigations that would
lead to the development Of latent re-
sources.
The war took from the south $780,
900 brave men, whose Drawn and brain
our nation needed in the development
of the south and the great expanse
of unoccupied territory in the west.
But no sooner had the results of APP
pomattoX flashed over the wires than
capitalists and iron and steel manu-
/ facturers from Pennsylvania and 9th
err states, accompanied by their engin
GERS, were found quietly exploring the
hills and mountains Of the south, and
were soon proclaiming the glad news
| that the south had apparently mex
haustible, dormant mines. These dis
coveries, together with others, prompt
ed a few progressive capitalists and
textile manufacturers of New England
and capitalists of the SOUTH to estab-
fish cotton factories in the southland,
where was now such an abundance of
cotton and coal. Today there are
more spindles in operation in the cot
ton producing states than in all of
the states of New England combined.
But the thought | would especially
bring to the attention of the land
owners, of Georgia is that our great
and permanent wealth is not alone in
our marble quarries, our oil wells, our
forests, our salt, sulphur and phos-
plate mines, our lumber and timber
lands, our turpentine products, our
limitless coal fields or our mountains
of ore. All these are valuable tenn
porary assets, but in time will become
exhausted
But listen, my farmer friend, that
which is God given and will abide
with us forever, is our fertile soil, our
warm sunshine and our abundant rain
fall
1t is not inaccurate to intimate that
in recent years the American dairy in
dustry and supply of food animals
have been gradually approaching its
twilight and its entire tissue should
today be strongly animated by new
spirit and energy and surcharged
with enthusiasm and determination by
every farmer within our broad land.
Most fundamental of all is, of course,
the COW, individually the producer of
milk, generically the medium through
which science and are of breeding are
effecting their wonderful improve
ment, and fundamental too to quote
Dr. Jarnigan's story in dialogue be-
tween the mother and her boy: John
ny, have you fed the cattle?' yes,
mother" What did you give them?'
Pine tops, mother" Johnny, did you
feed the pigs?' Eyes, mother" What
did you give them?" pine cones,
mother" alright, Johnny; go to the
persimmon tree and get your break
! fest" l emphasize that in order to
raise cattle successfully in Georgia,
! you have got to feed them. A pas
| ture for fattening cattle is not as
generally believed, that old field with
gullies, which you have no other use
for but call the pasture. Its Johnson
and nutgrasses do not make big ami
mails, any more than they make good
farms. There is no use going to all
the fairs, buying a $4,000 bull, taking
! him back to the farm, placing him
with other good animals, with the
idea that you are in the cattle bust
ness-a breeder, if you do not give |
the animal the feed he requires each
day-often to add ten pounds to his |
weight.
Fertilize we'll and grow good crops |
Of alfalfa and other grasses that make |
first quality hay. Turn your boll-wee
vii infested cotton fields into corn. !
oats, rye, millet. sorghum and cow
peas, which our Georgia lands grow