Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1956-10-10
BY J. M. ELEAZER
Clemson Extension Information
Specialist


meat. !
We like it. It's a high class
food. And when the money is
available, we will use it on good
meats.
Most sections of the world
can't afford much meat. In fact,
most of the worlds population
lives mostly on cereals. That's
because the cereals will feed a
lot more people than if they went
to livestock and then the folks
in turn ate them.
Here in the Southeast, we are
fast contributing to our national
meat production. We have gone
far since the All Club boys of
30 to 40 years ago started first
with the pig. Then came poultry,
dairy, and later beef projects
among the All youngsters. OF
course, some progressive farmers
were growing into these fields
too. But it surely was the young
sters who did that early pioneer
ing. And their fine exhibits Mt
the fairs were among the first
exhibits of that sort we had.
Now we have a number of
counties where livestock income
exceeds that from cotton, and in
most Of them it rivals the oil
King.
In the last 20 years the great
est increased consumption has
been in turkey meat, ITO per
cent. That is followed by chickens
at IS per cent, beef 40 per cent,
lamb and mutton 81 per cent.
veal Il per cent, and pork u
per cent increased consumption.
Now, folks, those are surpris-
ing figures. We already ate q
lot of meat. But just think, we
increased our consumption OF
meat all of that in 20 years. The
increase in population couldn't
nearly account for it all. We are
Just eating the meat.
! / can see as | go about that
more and more farmers are get
ting the feel of their livestock
and poultry businesses. AS ira
ditional crop trainers we had
a lot to learn. For there are
many tricks to every trade. And
we get the needed new know
ledge only from painstaking ex-
pertinent and experience.
In my time kids came up with
traditional knowledge of crops
Now they are coming up in n
tradition of livestock too. And,
with "crops plus livestock" we
have a future that's bound TO
be different. Yes, delightfully."-
different. For crops plus live
stock spell out stability Of
land and man that has not been
ours very much before.
Creep feeding of pigs is a
very desirable practice. accord
ing to Gus DuRant, our livestock
specialist. For there they can eat
in peace and not he pushed
around by the sows. The feed at
that time also enables them 20
better stand the shock Of cas-
tration. weaving. worming, and
vaccination.
A creep. it is recalled, is an
enclosure where the pigs can
get in to and eat, but the larger
hogs can't. Your county agent
has Clemson's plans for making
/ them.
1t pays to test dairy cattle for
production, Clemson has long
taught. The Dairy Herd Improve
ment Work has been to that end
lit serves to locate both the low
producers and the high ones. thus
ienabling hte dairyman to do in
Itelligent culling of Improbable
cows.
The Virginia Extension Ser
vice reports on similar groups
of Jersey cows where the tested
ones averaged S43S each in a
sale. while those not tested aver
aged S19I. So the conclusion Is
"Production testing doesn't cost
it pays"
"Plenty of clean water at all
times for chicks is essential to
GOOD results. even if other feed
ing and management practices
are carried out correctly" says
Up. II. Gooding. our poultry
specialist.
And the extension poultryman
of Georgia, Henry Massey, 's
quoted as saying Lack of water
can cause chicks to give the
symtoms of nearly every poultry
disease"
The following three inscrip-
tions are chiselcd in stone over
the main agricultural building
in Washington:
"The husbandman that labor
eth must be the pnrtakcr OF the
fruits 49, Saint Paul"
"No other human occupation
opens so wide a field for profit
able and agreeable combination
of labor with cultivated thought
as apriculture-Lincoln."