The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1922-08-11

~ true when the colts can be pur-
chased cheaply enough, as has been
the case in Missouri for the last few
years. There Is virtually no NOR
1ality among young mules. They new
er die, and except for an occasional
injury from oaro wire fences, moth
ing ever happens to them. 1t costs
less TO pasture and less to w.nter a
mule colt than steer.
There is and always WI be a good
market for mules in the Delta Sc
ton of Mississippi, and in other
parts of the South, where they must
of necessity stick to cotton, as they
are not so blessed with hay ana
grass as is the lime belt of North
East Mississippi.
Percheron, Norman, ClyGnsdale,
and other large horses are not affect
ed by being changed to this country,
and readily become acclimated.
1t is well-known that every lime
soil country ultimately becomes a
prosperous livestock country, es-
pecialiy for horses and mules, be-
cause the lime is essent al to the pro-
duction of bone. 1t requires no pro-
phetic vision to see that when
enough farmers move into this coun-
try who are accustomed to using and
properly caring for large mares, this
will be one of the best and most
prosperous mule-breeding and de-
veloping sections of the United
States.
Hogs, on account of climatic con-
ditions, put on greater gains, per
pound Of feed, here than in the
North. The breeder has no trouble in
raising two full filters year, AMI
expensive houses to prevent crowding
or freezing in winter are unneces-
sary. Lincoln Harbold's Hog Ranch
at Aberdeen, furnishes ready cash
market, every day in the year for
hogs in any quantity, from one to a
carload, or for anything that hog
will eat. As he sells to serum plants
he gets better price than the or
binary shipper; hence, can pay a bet.
ter price.
1t is the first 100 pounds that can
always be put on the cheapest, and
no where cheaper than here, with
our good pastures and cheap feeds
The small farmer can make good.
quick money by selling a crop of
pigs to Harbold every six months,
just as the next crop comes on, de-
voting himself to breeding, and let
ting the finishing be done by an ex-
perienced feeder
With good hog-tight fences, good
water, and good pastures, this coun-
try is a veritable hog heaven"
Grazing in the winter on rape and
rye; in the spring on the various clo-
vers-fed sorghum cane in the sum-
mer while on the pastures-given the
run of the fields in the fall, in which
has been planted corn, peas, soy
beans, velvet beans, peanuts or
sweet potatoes-receiving the skim
milk from the dairy, or butter milk
from the Creamery pigs bring in
sure, steady income.
Sheep do well on any land in the
county-a great many are here
now, and the number will rapidly
increase, as we learn better how to
handle them. Spring lambs grow rap
idly where they have access to al
falfa, green or cured. Wintering
sheep is no problem, and is but little
expense. If some practical sheep
raisers would take advantage of the
opportunities here offered set the
example, and show us how sheep
should be handled for the greatest
protein but few years, the roll
ing lands and valleys ofMonroe coun-
ty would be dotted with large f1ocks
of the best wool producers.
The writer has never quite under
stood why goats are not more in de-
mand at the stock yards. Few can
tell the difference in taste of lamb
and kid. You do not have to raise
goats, they raise themselves. 1t costs
about as much to raise goat as it
does to raise a chicken. They are
browsers rather than grazers, and
are worth their market value just to
keep down the weeds and bushes in
the pasture.
For general livestock and dairying,
it can well be said that the Lime Belt
of North East Mississippi offers un-
told opportunities. We have the soil,
we have the climate, and we have the
rainfall. Purest water flows from
springs or artesian wells, in some
sections, and is easily obtained from
shallow depths by windmills and
gasoline engines in others. The pas
lures are better than any, with the
possible exception of the bluegrass
region of Kentucky. For hay, it has
the world beaten, as alfalfa, sweet
clover, red clover, johnson grass and
lespedeza seldom have to be re-
seeded. The winters are mild---ex-
pensive buildings are not necessary.
The markets are exceptionally good.
All livestock does well. The three
banks of Aberdeen, each with abun-
dant capital and resources, stand
ready to assist every worthy enter
prise.
The trouble has been that our
people until the advent Of the boil
weevil) have always made a living
too easily raising cotton, and are
perhaps too easily contented. The
better educated have taken too much
to the professions, leaving agricul-
culture and stock-raising, for the
large part, to the tenants or share
troopers. The truth is, few people
anywhere will work more than is
necessary. With us, the season be-
tween hickory nuts and dew-berries
is too short, and no one ever suffers
for lack of food or heat The sum-
mers do not get as intensely hot
here as in the northern or western