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$500 More a Year farming: How to Get It
BY BETTER WINTER CARE OF THE LIVE STOCK.
Despite Our Mild Climate, tlie Losses of Live Stock From Win
ter Exposure Are Greater in the South Than in the North——This
Loss Due to Neglect.
Rv Tait Butler.
IN PRACTICALLY all farming and
stock-raising countries the ex
pense of feeding and caring for
the farm animals during the winter
adds very greatly to the cost of their
production. In other words, it is
generally cheaper to permit the live
stock to gather their own feed,
which they usually do during the
growing or summer season. There
fore, it must, at first thought, ap
pear to all, quit© remarkable that the
best live stock in this and other coun
tries, is now being grown in those
sections where protection from win
ter weather and the feeding of forage
harvested during the summer are ne
cessary to successful live stock pro
duction, for several months of the
year. It is often claimed that these
colder sections are better adapted to
the growing of live stock, but this is
scarcely borne out by our milder
climate, greater facilities for produc
ing feeds and the numerous isolated
sucuessiui live siuui piuuuutjio
throughout the South. Everything
points unmistakably to the fact that
the difference is in the men rather
than in the climatic conditions which
affect the live stock. Cattle and other
live stock can find enough feed dur
ing the winter throughout the greater
part of our territory to maintain an
existence. It is true, however, that
government statistics show that the
Southern States lose more live stock
during the winter from exposure to
the weather than do such States as
Nebraska and Minnesota; but this
does not mean that our winters are
more severe to live stock than those
of Northern Stateg, but that the cat
tle are protected and fed less. Ours
can live—most of them—without
feed or care furnished by man, while
theirs would all die if not fed and
housed, and consequently, following
the human tendency to do the least
where nature does the most, we are
guilty of gross neglect of our live
stock during the winter.
The Simple Problem of Housing.
We do not wish our readers to in
fer that we think all live stock should
be closely housed and fed heavily on
stt red feeds in this section during the
winter, but we do insist that better
care and more feed during the winter
will give more profit with much of
the live stock now kept on the farms
of the South.
As to housing, it is safe to state
that all dairy cattle, all young ani
mals going through their first winter
and many of the others, should be
protected from wind and rain dur
ing the months of December, January
and February. We need not give
consideration to the question of pro
tection from cold, but dry sleeping
quarters should always be furnished
all farm stock. Much of the live
stock, such as pigs, calves, and other
young animals now kept in barn lots,
or damp and filthy houses, are at a
distinct disadvantage, even as com
pared with those that run at large on
the range. The latter can at least
find a moderately dry and clean place
to lie. Again, the animals that are
housed are more likely to suffer from
lice which produce untold losses dur
ing the winter and spring through
out the South.
In the way of care, we can safely
insist on it being profitable to give
the sheep, calves, pigs and all other
live stock kept about the barn lots, a
dry, clean place to lie, where they
will be protected at night from wind
and rain. Nothing more is necessary
in the way of housing.
Separate Old Stock From Young.
Another point at which much loss
may be saved is in separating the
older animals from the younger, the
large ones from the small. The habit
which we have developed of confin
ing the hogs, cattle, mules and all
other live stock of all kinds and of
all ages in one barn lot is expensive
in injured animals and lack of
growth. As to the amount of feed
which shall be given, that is largely
influenced by the kind and age of the
animals, and the purposes for which
they are being kept. Mature ani
mals that are idle should be kept
on as little and as cheap feeds as
practicable; but the dairy cows and
young, growing animals ought to
have and will pay for rather liberal
feeding, if they are of good enough
quality to justify keeping them at
all. Cattle ana Horses wmcn nave
passed through one winter may be
roughed through succeeding winters
on coarse fodders, such winter pas
tures as can be provided or on the
range, with possibly satisfactory re
sults; but, young animals are not
profitably wintered in that way.
Our Greatest Trouble.
The lack of feed is, In the opinion
of the writer, by far the greatest ob
stacle to successful live stock grow
ing in the South. Of course, the
quality of our stock is not good, but
no animal, it matters not what his
breeding may be, can prove profitable
without feed and reasonable care.
When it is proposed to winter live
stock on the range (?) or to furnish
them pastures 10 to 12 months in the
year, we know at once that failure is
assured- A few may be able to come
out with a profit on that basis; but
the majority will continue to fail as
they have in the past.
Winter pastures are helpful and
will furnish much feed; but the man
who expects to make a success of live
stock production must provide much
stored feed for the winter months.
The cheapest of these are the leg
umes, silage and cottonseed meal and
with these, the winter pastures, and
the rough forage which may easily
be produced, our short winters should
not stand in the way of successful
live stock growing.
CHOICE OF CROPS TO FOLLOW COTTON
A Splendid Opportunity This Year for a Good Oat Crop— Ilegin
Now to Prepare for Next Year's Corn and Cotton Crop*.
By Prof. J. F. Duggar, Alabama Field Editor.
Throughout a large part of
the Cotton Belt there will
be practically no top crop.
Hence, if the supply of labor per
mits, many a field will be cleared of
cotton at an early date. This early
removal of cotton permits a greater
range of choice as to the best crop to
grow next year where cotton grew
this year.
If we were asked to name what
might be called a standard rotation
for the Cotton States it would read
like this:
First year, cotton.
Second year, corn with cowpeas
between the rows.
Third year, oats, followed by cow
peas.
Fourth year, cotton.
This gives half of the land in cot
ton, and is generally recognized a3
a very practical plan. The chief
reason why cotton is here followed
by corn lies in the fact that corn is
easily removed, whatever the char
acter of the season, in time for the
planting of fall oats, while cotton
usually occupies the land too late for
the best growth of oats.
However, the exceptionally early
date at which many fields this year
will be free of cotton makeB it pos
sible to construct a rotation Just as
good or better than the above by hav
ing oats instead of corn to follow
cotton.
As between the two crops, the ad
vantage of the small grain lies large
ly in the fact that it requires the ex
penditure of less labor per acre than
does the growth of corn. Hence, the
farmer in a locality where labor is
scarce or growing scarcer will year
by year substitute small grain for a
part of his corn. This by no means
implies that the production of corn
will be neglected or decreased. On
the other hand, the condition Just
mentioned offers every inducement
to make a maximum yield of corn
on a minimum amount of land.
An additional slight advantage
which oats have as compared with
corn, is the fact that a larger growth
of cowpeas is usually obtained by
sowing these after oats than by
planting them in the corn, though
this is by no means a universal rule.
Moreover, the cowpeaa thus grown
as the exclusive crop after oats, may
be much more economically harvest
ed than those in the corn field.
The point of this article is not to
imply that an acre of oats is better
than an acre of corn, hut that those
Big A Plenty Farm
Harriaton, Miaa.
Mammoth l at* Soy Bean S««l. t2 no bo., reclean
ed R R. I*. Sat'd Oat*, bright and nound. * e bo.
Buy from grower and avoid chance of Inf eating
your land with cheat and Johnaon Grass.
D. H. CHAMBERLAIN. . . Manager.
Red Rust-Proof Oats
FOR SALE
Theae oat* are home-grown, and contain a (mail
amount of Hair. Vc rh Seed Sample MM on
rtguest Price 7 >c a buahel
Alao Angora Buck*, from 4 mon<h» to 2 year*
old. Plica (6 to 110. C. C BARD WELL,
Starkvili*. Mia*.
<3 a. fM lj i r>* e
Rust-Proof Seed Oats
Grown in South MDsUaippI for many years; the
large kernel variety 2,000 bushel* for sale fl 00
per bufthH; h rru>le by niall
FERNWOOD LUMBER COMPANY.
Fern wood, Pike Co., MU*.
Oats and Vetch, Mixed
A g od forage crop for thin land, to be followed by
Uiwiuyui o' Sov Itcunii
W do not guarantee free from Johnaon Grail
MMMts
Price, $1.00 Per Bushel.
MISSISSIPPI EXPERIMENT STATION.
__ Agricultural College, Miss.
LOU SI»NA SEED CANE
Krjrss:, bxx;:r ' *
J. C. McNAIR, ... Fayette, Miaa.
GENUINE APPIER OATS FOR SALE
HO cents per bu.hel. f. o. b Brandon.
Miaoissippi. ; : ; ; ; . .
S. W linnin, : : ; Fannin, MiHu.
APPLER OATS FOR SALE
85 cento per bushel.
Sycamore Mills Farm, • Sycamore, All.
SEED
Dixie Brand for Dixie Land
The larir*et. moil reliable aeed bouae In the
South. Seed* of every known variety.
BURR CLOVER IN THE
BURR OUR SPECIALTY
(77/ff HOME OF PURE 9RED.)
LEIFER BROS. SEED CO.
LITTL£ ROCK. t: u ARKANSAS.
McGEHEE’S
Surecrop Oats
Thlrtn »rmilr< crap* In Louisiana mUk
o*l a tatlurs All aeed carefully eeleeted.
I’ricea. by buahel or carload, on application.
Plant Karin.
McGEHEE’S
Reliable Lespedeza Seed
Randy for delivery in November.
The Best Boll-weevil Antidotes
J B. McCebee, Laurel Hill, La.
CAD CATC
Cam. Caak't Imipreead Oaf to* Wood.
Colton Seed and OaU tl par bo . Oar* H.
We true our aeed and ha«a our ala to beep theea
pure. Order now. aa we oarer aare aaonfb to
lad through theaoaaon
WRITE US rt)R DESCRIPTION. ETC.
VINEYARD FARM, t. Griffin. G*.
Buy from Grower
Red Rust-Proof Seed Oats
looped*** Seed and Mar. Implored Upload Elea.
All aeed car. fully rer leaned.
H. M. STEWART. Laaral BBL La.
FALL SEEDS
Vetch. Rr*. Turf Oat*. Red R P.
OaU. Wheat. Dwarf Eoaea Rapa.
Oraeoe*. Clorara. Writ* for prteoa.
dating (juaatitr wanted.
CRIMSON CLOVER
lHc per Ita.: Pi SO park; It. 00 par ha.
00 Iba.. f. o. b. StarkrlUa, Ida*.
R. K. ( F. 1. Wier, • StukvRk. Wu.
SEEDS
We have a full stock of the following
seeds, and will be glad to quote prices
on application : Alfalfa Seed, Crimson
( lover Seed, A Isyke Clover Seed, Dwarf
Essex Rape Hairy Vetch. Barley. Rye,
{*ulcaster Wheat, Red May Wheat, Red
Rust Proof Oats and Winter Turf Oata.
Address
Wilson Food Store, 6ritnwood. Miss.
Mississippi Raised Heed Oats Por Hale
Guarantard to bs rest proof. Yield
from 60 to A, bu parsers Price S6c
bu.. f. a b Otiu-rvllle, Mississippi.
WAU.ACK JACKSON. . Marwick. Miss
1,000 BUSHELS GENUINE RED RUST
PROOF OATS FOR SALE
n°‘ *°/uat <" winter kill if pat In
with d-III or opart furrow malhud Order aariy
KS r'ttjzail P
B. H. Snatkrrs, . Wilsonvills, Ala.
HOW TO BEAT
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Top, Vetch. Rape. etc.
Our price* are rl«ht. Our aasda erow. Ws
make quick ahipmenta. Wa want your basins**.
Special prlcea to Farmer*' Unions.
TUCKER MOSBY SEED COMPANY,
MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE.