Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-07-26
ilr. Tillman Urges Farmers to
Engage in Dairying.
Editor Edgefeld Advertiser:

q These ideas may be of some value.
5lI am therefore submitting them for
such consideration as farmers over
1.-THE county care to give, and if any
i good comes as result I will feel re-
paid.
4 With boil weevils prevalent cotton
lis no longer staple crop. Neither the
ibanker nor the farmer can afford to
regard cotton as safe, sound and
lsure means Of producing the money
Ito meet obligations with. Even
4 Though those who plant cotton make
la reasonable crop occasionally
dwhen we have a hot and dry July and
August-there is the element of un-
certainty always, and safe and con-
servative business man will not ad-
;Ivance much money on the crop and
take the chance. 1t is a fact, when
] we have a wet July and August a
cotton crop is an assured failure.
A
1 In trying to find other things !
1have experimental with sweet pota-
toes, Irish potatoes, snap beans, oats,
vetch hay crops and rye. My expert
ence leads me to believe must leave
off the truck crops. have installed
too, small dairy. 1t is about this
dairy I arm going to write.
1 Good dairy cows will pay. Will pro-
duce weekly return of a certain and
sure amount of money, and usually
enough to operate on. There is, of
course, the question Of management
and handling in the proper way. 1t
has seemed to me all that region
above Edgefeld G. H., is peculiarly
adapted to cattle. It is rolling, as a
rule, washes away easily when plant
ed to crops which require shallow cul-
tivation and I am convinced that cat
tle-good dairy cattle-will rebuild
the worn lands and rehabilitate those
farms which have gone to pieces, and
give the farmers themselves staple
and certain source of some money
each week.
But not every man can succeed
with cattle. Dairy cattle require close
attention and must be given real care
as to feed and milking
When the temptation comes to
slack off in the early morning hours
and not strip the last gill, remember
BE FAITHFUL. The cow thinks
when you do not take it, you do not
want it and the following morning it
will not be there.
When feed time comes be accurate.
Feeding is an exchange of ration for
milk. When improperly mixed there
lis throwing away of all the COW will
not digest, and she will not digest
feeds improperly mixed. The proper
feeding of the cows is the first prob
lem to solve. The feeds can be raised
at home-all of them.
Feed all of the roughage cow will
eat.
Kindness is cows conception of
goodness, and to her a kind master
takes the place of Beneficent Faith
er. She will respond to grooming and
she will instinctively know when there
is an unkind or vicious feeling in
your heart. Be gentle. In thinking
a. tut the handling remember she is
the real producer and your work will
come to naught, if she quits on you.
Be clean. Little children perhaps,
lowering between life and death, will
drink cup of the milk you send out.
To have it germ laden and dirty.
ought to interfere with your sleep,
because this is bad form of slack
ing.
Fundamentally then, be honest
with your COWS, be kind, be clean.
In this way one will produce the max
imum from each animal; it amounts
to giving her fair exchange of feed
for her milk, and it should be the
pride of dairyman that his product
is clean food.
In the production of feed, one can
feed successfully dairy cows on oats
ground, with velvet beans ground, US
ing a pound of each for the mixture
Of a grain ration.
The beauty about this mixture is,
in farming to produce oats and corn.
We always plant peas in stubble at
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