The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-10-15

loans Kidney PlllS-tne same that
Mr.. White had. Foster -Milburn Co.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
dale horses, even Of Collie dogs. Your
picture OF England is likely to be one
of purbred Herefords or Shorthorns.
And you have sort of feeling of re-
verence toward them
Do you think of America, from a
live stock standpoint, in that way?
OF course not. You think of it as a
meat-producing country, range
country, grade cattle country
Both estimates are, in a manner,
correct. But, to the individual farm
er on the Island of Jersey or in the
| white-face country Of England or the
black-cattle country of Scotland, the
matter of having his animals pure
bred is simply a matter of doing what
everybody else is doing. 1t is easier
| or, to say the least, just as casy-to
| do it as not to do it.
Until just now, that condition never
existed in the United States; it does
exist now Communities have organ
lZed an dare organizing still more
closely. Breeding associations are
being formed with secretaries who
can give help in keeping the records
| things with which the small farmer
| operating alone has greatest Difficult
| ty. When . community organize and
starts raising purebrcd stock of any
| kind, it brings a market for that kind
OF stock to the door of every farmer in
the community. The man who, operat-
ing alone, could not haze sold pure
bred animal for a dollar more than he
could have got for good grade ami
NAL can get the worth of every ami
NAL he raises under the community
| system.
Opportunity Is Here.
America has the opportunity just
now to develop as a great breeding in
stitution. South America wants pure
bred "stuff.' AS an indication of how
active the wants is, Argentina recent
lv appropriated 100000 to encourage
the importation of purebreds. If the
United States gets any considerable
portion of the business in South Am
erica, Department experts say, it
must be because American animals
compete successfully on final test with
animals from anywhere else in the
world. They see no trouble in doing
that. with dairy cattle, where pro-
duction is the test. The thing to be
done is to give the So:,lh Americans
what they want in dairy cattle.
There is likely, also, 20 be pretty
big market in France for American
purebred dairy COWS. The problem Of
supplying that demand is somewhat
different from the South American
problem. France wants general
purpose COW, while the United States
is the home Of the specialized COW.
The thing that has to be done in that
case is to give France the specialized
| Il il,,,t l,.
requirements, with the hope that when
will be SO good that other Frcnchmcn
will want other cows like her.
Big Purebred Market at Home.
But, after all, the big market for
purebrcd animals is at home. The
same facts that apply to foreign mar
kcts ought to apply to beginners in
this country. Take the man who has
been operating a dairy farm with
grade cows. Let him have a purcbred
that not only look shelter than any
COW he ever owned before, but also
produces better, and he is pretty Ger
tain to start substituting purebredS
for his grades. If he gets poor pro-
duccr, of course, he is likely to make
up his mind that "thc purcbred bust
ness is mostly bunk Community
organization tends to see to it that the
beginner gets good producer, which,
in turn, tends to make him steady
customer for purcbred COWS until he
has placed his herd on purcbrcd
basis.
Now that he can afford to do it, the
small farmer should give himself the
pleasurc-and the actual bcncft--of
having dairy animals that he can be
enthusiastic over.
."You never saw man, says one
of the Government dairy experts,
"just boiling over with enthusiasm
about grade COWS. The gradc-cow
man may think about getting up early
in the morning to work with his cows,
but the pure-brcd- man is per-
fcctly willing to stay up all night to
work with them" In all Of this dis
cussion the good purcbrcd is under
Stood and not the SCRUB purcbrcd, for
there are some of that kind.
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With the growing scarcity Of feed
or cattle and the adva..ce in value of
farm lands, says the United States
Department of Agriculture. the baby
beef industry is of increasing impor
tance and is receiving the attention