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GOLDWORTH FARM T£c>
PUR” ST. LAMBERT JERSEY COWS
LEADING STRAINS BERKSHIRE HOGS
FILII WILLIAMSON
START RIGHT
With a herd, trio or pair of January Duroc Jer
sey Pigs from my very prolife stock (two Sows
one year old farrowed 19 fine Pigs*. Sows $12,
Boars 815; pair $25. trio $35. Have just purchased
a bunch of large type Poland Chinas. V? ill let
you bear from them later. __
N. K. KNOX,
Rosedaic Farm, Hope Villa, La.
JERSEY BULL
If you want a good registered Jersey Bull just
ready for service, write
HUGH CRITZ,
Stark Title. Mlsa
$25 D“™£ jggf* $25
A grand lot of fall Boars and Gilts, by McNeil's
Model and Prince Wonder II, out of Red Wander
and Bell Chief Sows. Pedigrees furnished.
GILLOCK & SON
Rente No. 10, Nashville. Item.
Kentucky Mammoth Jacks
Jacks, Jennets and saddle hsrisa. M head to
select from. Teas worth swine, all am. Gsta
lopueo now ready.
J. B. COOK A CO.,
Lexington, Ky.
P~f* UnrC of tha Tory beet brood
. C. HUGS S2^SKJ3^K
•oaks that won iat and tad primes at Oman
Hold, Tsnn. Prloea that will plaaae yon.
W a POPS. Verona. Mtaa.
Stallions and Business Horses
I hare a let of splendid saddle and harness stal
lions that ate tha kind to bread to alesato year
hone stock. They an rood area, pood sisa. pool
style, sound, pen tie, and highly bred. Will plndly
mail list of what 1 hare to any one writing far K.
and if y ju will coma. I will sad you Just aa low la
Pries as I can, and puarantsa Just aa represented.
W. M. KIRBY.
Box 28. - - Bowling Green. Ky.
DUROC•JERSEY PIOS
Registered. Anaaatry nastarpaaMdL No boa
ter brood of bops.
W. O. OPTHRIK Port Gibson. Mlaa.
73 DIUIUC RCU rULLd
Crowd with Dtron; Sprinters. Grade
Rad Poll Bull Calves.
BAY—Car iota ar laaa to rail ilwunl
J. BURRUSS McCEHEE,
Nam tbit imui LA0RBL HIU. P. a. La
pad pou odrrtd.-KKimrM
Immana to tilt larar. Yount holla and ban
an far tala A larta bard of aarafolly atteotor
and wtU brad eowa to aalaat from. Oamaa*
■aatbsoa IliUrm
J. B. BRIDGE. Ifanatar i
ar. W. a TURNER
Matowab Meadows stoek Farm.
_R P. D. L Crawford. Mlaa
BLUE RIBBON
BER KSHIRES
Bred Gilts sit sold. Have several handsome lit
ters by three of the best Herd Boar* in America,
out of 600 lb. sows and up. Our 1909 winnings in
cluded State Championship and at Shreveport. La.,
State Fair 9 herds. 5 state*competing, surpassed
all others Our correspondence is increasing enorm
ously. Inquirer* pl~ase send 2c stamp for reply
FRIERSON A HOLLINGSWORTH.
Shreveport. La.. or Coushatta. la.
Nice Tennesse lacks. Statons
Gordon Boy, No 83160. by Wilkea Boy. No. 8808.
Boy Wilkes Combination Stallion, for sale by
J. T. GARNER, Grenada, Mias.
Poland China Hoars
Ot fume* Braedlap.
White and Silver Wyandottes and B. P. Rocks
Hans. 81.60. Cockerels &.00 and 82.60 each.
A. F. TUGGLE. R. F. D. No. L Brush Creek. Tenn.
The LANKrORD” generously
out of heavy material,for rough wagon and W#//##// ’M
general farm use. Every one w guaranteed to Uigag */i M
your dealer to be the most humane Collar In the
world. No each things as galls and sore should*
era where this Collar is used. Sold by all guodV#//##/ f 'A
eveprw;Jlcre- Buy one, use it five da vs,
you eve, l£?Eta5 itTT^ de^M
hgT^Hlvo ^hmuPl>g^rSti'l"tr >bout this CollTf^nlly 'and their pn£
greaalve homes. Endorsed by farmers and stock owners^erywhere!
Couch Bros. Mfg. Co. Dept liiT Menphis. Ten.
pSfHOME OF THE more important
reasons why we should raise
tsU more beef cattle may be
briefly stated as follows:
(1) As a means of increasing and
maintaining soil fertility.
(2) As a means ef securing addi
tional revenue from idle lands and
those that do not now produce profit
able cultivated crops.
(3) To afford a market for coarse
raw products of the farm.
(4) To enable us to diversify and
rotate our crops.
(5) To produce human food to
supply local demands.
(8) To better enable, us to fur
nish constant work for the farm la
borers.
Having briefly stated the principal
reasons why we should grow more
beef cattle, let us now discuss them
more in detail, with special refer
ence to the conditions existing
throughout the South:
Cattle Feeding and Boil Fertility.
(1) The growing of beef cattle
may Increase soil productiveness in
the following ways: (a) By afford
ing a most satisfactory means of sup
plying organic matter—humus—to
the sell, thereby improving tbe me
chanical and moisture conditions, and
(b) by Increasing the nitrogen con
tent of the soil and by rendering
available other plant foods already
there. The earlier development ol
agricultural chemistry, the absence
of live stock to supply organic ma
nures, and the ease with which
chemical plant foods may be obtain
ed are probably responsible for out
disposition to look upon soil fertility
as a chemical question—or a ques
tion of plant foods only. Soil fer
tility, however, as regards most
lands, is much more a biological, a
bacterial question, than a chemical
one—much more a question of hu
mug ana mecnanicai condition than
of supplying additional plant foods
The simplest and most direct method
of supplying organic matter to soils
is through decaying plants, but the
plants which naturally grow on the
land build It up slowly, while culti
vated crops are too valuable te be
used directly as fertilizers. No prod
uct of the soil which Is suitable for
feeding live stock should ever be re
turned to the soil direct, before be
ing passed through some farm ani
mal. These feeding stuffs have a
double value, one as fertilizer and
another as feed, and by feeding them
to good live stock from 75 per cent
to 90 per cent of the former and all
of the latter may be realized.
These are important reasons for
maintaining a maximum of live stock
on the farm, but It must not be for
gotten that stable manure supplies,
better than any other materials,
the conditions suitable for bacterial
life in the soli, and probably because
of this we may explain why (he In
crease in crops is frequently greater
from Che stable manure preduced
from feeding a given quantity of
feeds than from an application of
these feeding stuffs directly to the
soil. In view of these facts, we are
probably correct in stating that live
stock—stable manure—Is essential
to the greatest soil fertility. At
least, no country has ever yet bulb
up and maintained soli fertility with
out giving live stock a prominent
place in Its agriculture.
We Should VtlHte Our Idle land*.
(2) Much of the land now In cul
tivation does not produce profitable
cultivated crops. If these lands were
put in pastures, or made te grow le
gume crops for feeding cattle, they
would produce larger net revenues
and he Improved In productiveness.
A small part of the lands of the
South are producing profitable crops
of any sort. Millions of acres from
which all the valuable timber has
been removed, and large areas
thought to be too poor for profitable
cultivation, would, If fenced, cleaned
up and put In pastures, yield profit
able returns on their market value.
We have too many Idle and unprofit
able acres, w*hlch> consume In taxes
and otherwise the profits from
our cultivated lands. These must be
Improved to become profitable, and
with beef cattle they may be made
profitable while being Improved.
A Market for Omuve Feedstuff*.
(3) The high prices of feeding
stuffs have been a serious Injury to
the Southern farmer. Not alone be
cause he has bought them with which
to make cotton, but also because it
has led him into the false position
of assuming that the feeding stuffi
produced would yield larger profit!
when sold on the market than when
fed to live stock. This position bat
been made to look more plausible
because of tbe cattle ticks and th<
poor quality of our cattle, but this
false economy should no longer de
ceive any one who studies Southern
agricultural conditions and our de
pleted sol! fertility.
Moreover, there are many coarse
farm products left In the fields to be
largely wasted which may be con
sumed by cattle that will pay a good
price for them. A notable example
of this Is the corn stover In which
about 40 per cent of the feeding
value of the entire plant Is found. It
muBt also be remembered that much
more of such farm products might be
made and saved for which beef cattle
would afford a roady and satisfactory
market. The marketing of roars*
fodder and hay products Is expen
sive. especially when located far from
market, because of their great bulk,
our bad roads and high freight rates;
but they may be marketed In cattle
with little cost and less Inconven
ience.
(4) No crop rotation Is complete
without legume srops to be grazed
or used as feed for live stock a
diversity of products demands larger
markets. If the crops produced be
^or,I® crops—and In a diversified ag
riculture, having In view the Increas
ing of soli fertility these must be In
cluded—then beef cattle offer a
meana of marketing these crops prof
itably.
The Direct Returns From Cattle
Feeding.
(5) The demand for good beef is
not supplied. The money obtained
from the sale of other crops Is sent
IBorkahlro Rota, Cheviot Sheep. Anion
Ooata. Embdon and Toulouse Qeeen. Barr,
od and White P. Book Chick ana. Oat our
prtooa CLOVKHDAUC STOCK FARM
H. C. Davidson. Proprietor.
Obiod, Tannaaeoa.
Berkshire ef the Choicest Strains In
America
Pica, both taxes, aired by Chanaen PmUr an,
aired by Lord Premier 2nd. Alee bred tow* tn
aame. Melee old enough far eei tlto, am earn 1 ran
plaaee you. my motto to do onto other* a* I would
hay* them da unto me Prompt rep hr to all to.
quiriee. A too prompt shipments.
L. U. ROBERTS,
R. F. D. No. I,!::::: Woodland. Mlaa
MULES FOR SALE~
Three open* of good, large work mu lee. w*Mk*
2.400 I be par epaa. A too one —utlir epaa. ^
J. W. BRANAMAN. . Kltoo. Mtoe
(Oe the 1. C. ala mOee emrth ef iackeen )
H*****!** £***. for mto Pur. bred Bert^
u eklre Boar I’Ve farrowed Jan. A 1*10. wMl
■larked end Individually good. Pedigree fumiek.
ed. from whleh they can be rugtotorad. «»■
each. t. a, b. bora. HUGH CRITZ.
8 lark vllto. Mlaa.
PI* QVKX BA&- O- Bcutoh OaPt. Bltoh.tee;
ea.no. Om to mnatb* otd Pda Trertar. Mk w3
tralaod for rota. «TJQ.
W.SPOPg, » : VtrtM.lfc,
ca. C. CLOYS
UBIQB PITY. ... TI»»IUH
ESSEX PIGS FOR SALE
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p*o Doxa op.
W. C LQTTfeaoa. . otomi Rshm*. mm*
Jersey Heifer
I k—»»!■ ■«■■■ f—■ nptfoi Ibgl a
■Mm t (tfiaM 4 rer» fkk milk Hba tp a rraaP.
m mo too of Urn VT.MO rkwafto* FMa* PmmI
MuAro Park of Pnoiort, tin of # —rinf Simfir
orm. ftho will dovotnp iota an mn pool «r.
Matured cows and mm things of both aaass oo
hud. If tatsreotsd wrtto
ft J WALLACK. Bmrbrts* MM.
Refiitered YeeHmg Ball Calf
Koady for Kohl wrrka Ham a 4-raUoa aow (Mm
* *-<b4, » •*» Mat om of CW FtytM
fW. whoaoW for VMOM* PrV* MOOD, f. . b.
bora. *. M. fork, t>r Ci ftta . MrNoUL Mb
3 Good Jocks
Threw to staht yoars old. rad da*, rad ridonL
■ound. wall bred.
3 Good Combtasboo Saddle end
Dririnf Horses
Pricao low for dam of stork Wrtto ao for fa
doarrtptioa. ASA W. ALLEN CO.
Topol* Mis*
LARGE BERKSHIRES
Premise Laarrfallow. Lore! Premise* Rlvol and
Maatorptoro strata* Young pda. trtod bread
•ows and bred and mom gilt* for aato Cot a pfe
hr tbo rat Lrarfottowo Rival lunr? tho preatmt
mow and breading bear of today
JACKSON STOCK FARM
_Unit Bock. Ark.
gngfe vinaMti arnaun iTmnHo*
gL * **»•• InirrcMMont) for HonM.
w£ it I £*» ***>»•&• Poultry Kic ImMH|
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for ljlu»trvt»d ratafoett* tmmmml
tow to. — Ho nora Hi, fmnarv
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will do aa they promise.