Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-11-08
N0XUBEE FARM NOTES
Some Market Impressions.


effecting the Southern farmer.
The South has long been at the
mercy of those who buy and sell.
This is fast becoming a thing of the
past. Buyers, realizing the South is
soon to have great part in the fu-
ture of the live stock industry, are
showing every favor possible to
southern producers of stock and
grain. However, on the market we
too, often see long horned, leggy
steers and poor, hairy, tick appear
ing calves that is distinctly south
ern and is rightly Disseminated
against. However, good fat cattle
are coming on the market which is
topping the market. Mississippi has
topped the cattle market more than
ence which is good beginning.
Loss on StOcker Calves.
. Many small calves with good
4 breeding come to the market daily
for which there is no demand to stock
farms for the winter. These calves
are too small to be used in the meat
markets, so the only use that can be
made of them is to grind them up with
Gamer cows. For this reason they
do not sell for much more than can
ner COWS.
Of course Jersey calf or one with
much Jersey blood is not profitable
to winter. He should ordinarily, be
sold as a veal. The point we wish
to make clear is the Southern far
mers are raising calves that sell bnt
little better than an old poor COW,
which should kept longer and finished
here if possible. To do this,the calf
must be well bred and we'll fed. If
our calves could be kept till they are
two and three years old and mark
eted fat instead of getting six or
seven cents they would bring six
teen to seventeen cents at St. Louis
Soft Pork.
The market is watchful for South
ern hogs. Often Southern hogs are
soft hogs. The fat will not harden in
the cooler. Cut with knife it is
clear, when warm it drips. Hogs
whose fat has been made by peanuts,
acrons and So beans arc generally
soft. Fat once put on with these
feeds unless fed a full ration of corn
is soft. When fed mast and put
up for three weeks to corn feed
only puts hard layer over the soft
fat.
However, pig kept growing on
mast feeds and allowed to fatten,
then fed on corn will be firm, for the
fat comes from the corn only. There
is an opinion that tight skinned hogs
as the Berkshire and Hampshire may
be easier to keep firm than the loose
skinned hogs.
We make this explanation for the |
benefit of our farmers. There has
been some confusion as to what con-
stituted corn fed hog.
Hog Grazing Crops.
Our friends in the north will con-
cede that the south can made soft
pork and sell it as such at greater |
profit than corn belt hogs, because
of the grazing possibilities of the
South. Here we are just realizing
this, few are making much use of the
opportunity as yet.
Farmers Bullstin $50 outlines a |
continuous grazing system of pas
lures for ten sows, one boar and one
hundred pigs, consisting of: (a) Five
acres in oats, rye, rape, and vetch to
be grazed from January 1st to May
1st. (,Seed in corn, velvet beans
sweet potatoes.)
(b.) Ten acres bermuda pasture |
and pasture legumes to be grazed
at odd times from May1st to October
1st.
(c.) Five acres cat tail millet and
sorghum to Craze May 1st to August
1st, (Seed to oats, rye, vetch.)
(d.) Five acres early Dent and
Spanish peanuts or COW peas to Craze
July 1st to Setember 18th, (Seed to
oats, rye, rape, vetch.)
(e.) Five acres early corn and
Spanish peanuts to Craze July 1st to
September 18th, (Seed to oats, rye,
vetch.)
j (f.) Thirty-fve acres corn, North
Carolina peanuts and velvet beans
corn to be harvested and grazed Sep
tember 18th to February 18th.
Green Crops North.
After some years absence from the |
= North we were surprised to find a |
!. green carpet on the ground there
k even after having had severe frosts. |
q Fields were covered with wheat, rye, |
clover and often alfalfa. These far
Il mers now are using cover crops even
81 for their cold winters so essential for