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★ LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY ★
TIMELY TOPICS FOR STOCKMEN.
IT NEVER PAYS to aim to breed
anything but the best. Mules
. weighing 1,200 pounds will sell
from $50 to $75 higher than those
of the same quality that only weigh
1,000 pounds. lienee, aim at the
1,200-pound mule. Even when the
heavy mules are aimed at there will
be enough of the 1,000-pound and
cheaper sort produced to satisfy the
demand of those who pretend to
prefer the lighter animals.
• • •
Give the suckling colt a little ex
tra feed. Few mares give enough
milk to raise a colt properly. While
the colt Is getting Its mother’s milk
a little corn will do no harm but
oats, wheat bran and some good le
gume hay are better and after the
colt la weaned very little corn should
be given until the colt is at least two
years old. Not that corn isn't a
good horse feed, for It is. but be-”'
cause it does not contain enough
bone- and muscle-making materials
—protein nnd ash, to develop a good
horse or mule.
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The Farmers' Voice tells the story
of an Illinois dairyman who six years
ago paid $100 for a pure-bred calf
and excited the ridicule of his neigh
bors by so doing. He, however, be
gan testing his cows; weeded out the
poor ones; bought another bull—
$200 this time; improved his meth
ods and studied his business, until
Inst year his cows paid him $124.80
each and his 4 0-ncre farm yields
$48.57 per acre and gets richer all
the time. This is just an example of
how up-to-date dairying pays.
• • •
To obtain n uniform lot of hogs is
of much Importance. If any number
OOWH AND FEItTIMTY.
The entire South Is awakening to
the fact that they need moro farm
animals, home-raised, of good stock.
Farmers nre beginning to compare
results honest, they are! Don’t let
a few figures scare you off. This is
not a funny story; it is a bunch of
kiln-dried facts.
Iowa, Georgia nnd Mississippi had
In 1900, approximately the same
number of farm families. Their
total value of domestic animals was.
In millions: Georgia, 33; Mississippi,
4 1. and Iowa, 27 2. For each family
their value was: Georgia. $108; Mis
sissippi. $185; Iowa, $1,220.
Now look at the value of farm
products for 1899, In millions; Geor
gia. 104, and Mississippi, 102, while
the Iowa farms produced $1,000,000
for every day in the year. Every
farmer's family in Iowa produced
naasle f < t 11 e I i in nc fi o m n. li n n n
farmer's family In Mississippi or
Georgia.
But here's the staggerer: Iowa
spent $337,190 for fertilizers; Mis
sissippi, $932,000; while Georgia’s
fertilizer 1)111 ran up to $5,700,000.
The Iowa farmer returns the rich
ness to his land; the other farmers
ship It away.
The entire South has a climate
where it Is rarely necessary to pro
tect cattle from the winter. There
Is an abundance of forage and plen
ty of water. Then also the cotton
seed, taken In connection with cattle
raising. Is the surest of all wealth
producers. When bought for fertil
izer it is spread directly upon the
ground, which utilizes only a small
part of Its value, if the same ton ol
cottonseed meal were filtered through
a cow, the droppings would contain
from 90 to 9)> per cent of the origin
are desired for fattening, they will
do better and be less trouble if of
about the same age. Large numbers
should not be kept together, but
those that are fed in one lot or
pasture must be of about the same
igf> and size to give the best results.
"hen killing time comes, whether
they are to be sold or not, uniformity
"ill be found of advantage, but if
marketed it will be of the greatest
value. A bunch of hogs uniform in
color, sfse, type and condition, will
bring a good premium over hogs of
a mixed size and color but otherwise
of equal quality. To get this sort
stick to one breed and have the pigs
farrowed as nearly as possible at
tim same tlm*.
During the first two months of the
life of a pig the dally gain is not
rapid, but the increase in wAi^ht
usually made at a profit. From the
'end of the segond month to the end
of the seventh the gain Is most rapid.
According to Dietrich, the average
of a large number of feeding trials
compiled by Henry, is a gain of 50
pounds each month during the fifth,
sixth and seventh months of the pigs
life. During the first four months
he scarcely gains 100 pounds, during
the succeeding three months he gains
loO pounds, while it reguires the
next five months to put on the next
100 pounds. One half of this Is put
on during tho eighth and ninth
months, or as much as during the
following three months. It would
appear from this, assuming that the
most rapid gains are usually the
most profitable, that the pig should
be fed liberally up to nine or ten
months of nge, when It should be
slaughtered and Its place taken by
others.
nl fertilizing value, while the farmer
would have his dairy products, his
cow, and n calf extra.
Cattle thrive upon those elements
of cottonseed meal that are useless
as plant food. Those elements pro
duce meat and milk. The cow com
pels the farmer to raise forage, and
enables him to rnise It. She is the
mother of diversification—enemy to
the single crop and fertilizer bills.—
•fudge Harris Dickson, in Saturday
Evening Post.
Tin* Different Kinds of Ticks.
Those who doubt the feasibility or
practicability of eradicating cattle
ticks are simply not informed of what
has already been done, and do not
know the life history and habits of
the cattle tick.
The stumbling block for mewt un
informed people Is their knowledge
( h ft f ffi'lftt pof nn Hnae ruhhlta
squirrels, cattle, horses, mules, and
almost all other animals, including
man. The point of real force, how
ever, is that the fever tick, which is
the only species that ever becomes
very numerous on live stock, only
gets on cattle, horses and mules. This
species, the only one that does great
damage, does not get on rabbits,
sheep, hogs, dogs, or any other ani
mals but cattle, horses and raules.
"This Is the question that should
be put to every cow,” says the Prai
rie Farmer: “ ‘Are you a money
maker, or a money-loser?” The way
to ask it is with the Babcock test
and the scales; and then when the
cow has answered it is up to the
owner to get rid of her or to give her
the best possible care, as the answer
indicates.
LEARN TO DO THINGS WELL.
The Habit of Doing Work Radiy Will
Last You a Lifetime.
You and 1 are simply bundles of
habits. Every time we do anything
it becomes easier to do it in the fu
ture, until by and by the doing of it
becomes unconscious, automatic—it
does itself. It is, therefore, of the
utmost importance that we form cor
rect habits in doing, in thinking, in
living. If we learn to do a thing
badly and form the habit, we will in
all probability do it badly all our
days. If we form the habit of doing
things in the wrong way, or if we
form the habit of doing evil things,
we will in time become careless men
or bad men; for badness and good
ness are, to a certain extent, at
least, matters of habit.
When your Uncle Henry was a boy
he was very anxious to get through
with a good deal of work. For in
stance. he was anxious to he the
fastest corn husker and the fastest
grain binder in the neighborhood.
Unfortunately, he formed the habit
of binding sheaves loosely and failed
to acquire the habit of getting all the
silk and husks off the corn. The
mice had a picnic in the corn that
he husked. A loose sheaf, when
hauled in, in harvest, or pitched out
at threshing time, was instantly rec
ognized as one of ‘‘Henry’B sheaves.”
I tried hard to oorrect this habit in
after years, but never succeeded. 1
could bind tight enough as long as 1
kept thinking about it, but the mo
ment I began thinking about some
thing else, and that was about all
the time, the sheaf bound itsell
loose.
You will avoid a great deal ol
trouble in after life if you will ac
quire the habit of doing well what
ever you do. It is no more troubli
to acquire the habit of doing it righ
than wrong, and when a habit is onci
formed, it stays formed. Til onge
you practice it, the more firmly thi
habit becomes fixed. It is as easy t<
curry the horse well, when you ge
in the habit of it, as it is to glv<
him a “lick and a promise.” It if
as easy to milk the cow clean, and
with neatness and dispatch, as it if
to milk her otherwise. The habit
once formed, of doing things right
will stay with you as a perpetua
heritage and blessing. The habit o
doing things right can be formed bj
the conscious and conscientious righ
doing of them In the first place, anc
every subsequent repetition of th<
act fixes and confirms the habit un
til it becomes the permanent, thougl
unconscious, habit of life. The mai
who learns to do the work on th<
farm right, will be very likely to di
all his work right, for the reasoi
that it becomes his second nature.—
Dr. Henry Wallace.
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GOOD BOILERS
Two 80 to 100 horse power boilers fo
sale. Good as new. A bargain.
Canton Oil Mill Company,
Canton, ... Mississippi
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