Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-07-10

TIME slaughter of dairy COWS and
breeding animals has reached
great proportions recently, and
unless a check is put to this great waste
the dairy industry and the consumers
of diary products are sure to pay the
toll before a great time. The high price
of labor and the scarcity of it on the
farm, with the business of work sea-
son ahead with many farmers and dairy
men. many have been tempted with the
present price of beef to sell every ami
NAL that was not making immediate
money. Many of them expecting to re-
place these animals at a later day. This
will never be done in many instances,
and if so they will have to pay double
the price for the animals that they are
now selling at a sacrifice.
1t is far better to keep and pas
ture every good breeding animal or
dairy COW that is in this winter, and if
ii does cost a little extra to take care
of them it will pay you in the end, rath-
er than see them butchered and leave
nothing to take their place later on.
1t does look like a sin to see so many
good animals killed. when this coun-
try will need so badly the use of these
animals within the next few years to
supply food and consume the album
dance of grass and food crops that are
now being produced all over the coun-
try. Grass especially could never be
harvested and converted into money If
1T were not for cattle, and millions of
collars could be put in the pockets OF
Our southern people and in fact all over
the United States of We had more cat
tie to convert our grasses into meat.
1t is far cheaper to buy. even at a
high price, and build wire fences and
utilize grass through live stock than
it is to sell them now and pay double
the price for them within the next few
years, to say nothing of the increase
and the good they will do our land.
No farm is complete without its herd
of dairy cows. and there are but few
farms that can be kept profitable year
oy year unless they are stocked
with some kind of live stock
Compare me price of cattle now with
what 1t was ten to fifteen years aga,
and during the next five years to come
they will again double in value and the
man who can see far enough ahead and
be willing to wait on the investment
to grow tenfold within a few years by
getting more cattle and better ones,
this will be the man who will be indie
pendent and on a safe basis in the
future.
dairy calves issa sin at the rate it has
been going en- for the past few months
especially, and people who are so I'M
wise as to permit such will. surely re.
greet it in time to come. The money
that is derived from them, much OF it
will never be converted back into cat
tie and # so they will cost double the
money for the same quality in less than
two years. | am confident the people
who will begin to appreciate their cows
as they should and hold to them until
the last are the ones who will be proud
of it some day. There are but few
things that are more underestimate in
real value than a good COW, and in the
southern states they are cheaper than
can be found anywhere, simply be-
cause we have never realized or appre-
ciated our cattle as we should. The
eastern and western buyers have ran
sacked the south during the past two
years and shipped cattle away from us.
This should be sufficient evidence that
they are getting scarce every day, and
that sooner or later they must look to
this country for a large part of the
supply of not only cattle but hogs.
With the eradication of the tick and
the introduction of velvet beans, with
our cotton seed, products and abundant
rasses, and long growing periods the