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}* \ I kFQR THE FARMING. STOCK RAISING, DAIRYING. POULTRY AND OTHER INTERESTS OF THE SOUTHERN STATES? , VOL. 7. NO. 20.__ STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, JULY 15, 1902. ~ ~ 50 CENTS A YE ART LIVE STOCK.1 wmmmmmmmi msmammmm & The Hog Lot in Summer. S Notwithstanding the great im Bbortance which the great Ameri Bcan hog is in the economy of the ■ farmer, he is the worst treated W animal on the farm. That he is ■ not afflicted with more ailments | than he is, considering the trcat I ment lie receives, is surprising. |i It is in tlie hot days of midsutn ' mer when lie is neglected the most. There i> no animal on the l. farm that is more sensitive or * suffers more from heat than the hog. Anyone who has driven fat hogs on a sultry day can soon see how easily they are overcome by the sun. Yet, with this tact in view, nine farmers and breeders out of ten will select the hottest | most exposed, dry and shadeless place on the farm to locate the hog lot. The fence is horse high, bull strong and of course, pig tight, and, consequently, but very little breeze can reach the herd. Usually the pens are p. crowded, especially if they con tain hogs that are being fattened. ■Aand by being in close contact Jt|with each other the animal heat ferincreases that of the sun and fr .theit* sufferings are so great that I fit heir appetite is impaired, and |tHbey do not thrive as well as they * would if the conditions were dif i'?»ferent. In the coming summer I ‘months provisions should be I made to furnish them with shol. f ter, shade and pure cold water. If there is no place on the farm where a lot can be located with trees in it, sheds can be erected at small expense, which will not not only shelter them from the direct rays of the sun, but fur nish them a place of refuge from storms.—Drovers Journal. MADE A FORTUNE .IN GOATS. There is a new resident in Denver who is not only pleasant in personality and engaging in conversation, but particularly in teresting with respect to bis business. This gentleman is Chas. S. Onderdonk, of Gamy, N. M., who has just arrived in Denver, with his family. He is a man of great wealth and an annual income that runs far up into the thousands. He depends for all the luxury with which he surrounds him self on goats. There is no time of the year when he has not on his ranch at least 10,000 goals. Often, prior to the periodical shipments, he has as high as-2i>, 000. There are 28,000 acres of land for them to graze over, and they are such frugal little beasts that they can pick up a living where other animals would starve. They can eat the foliage of low trees when the grass is scarce, and strip off the bark , sometimes, and really fatten on such food. The ranch is just the sort that the young kid intuitively lo-gs for. It covers a large part of [ ^Glorieta mountain, a great eleva vation east of Santa Fe. It also 0 contains Apache canyon, with its precipitous sides and rocky ledges, along which the intrepid quadrupeds skipjj and climb in their careless brcak-neck fashion and it is great fun lor them, for nothing tickles a goat so much as risking his neck, and on the On derdon farm he can take chances every hour in the day. Mr. Onderdonk raises but two kinds ol goat- — Angoras for their hair, and the “Corientes” for their skins. The word “Cori entes ’ means simply “coarse ones,” and it is from the skins of these tougher animals that the famous vici kid goods are made. 'The hair which grows luxuri antly on the Anggras, is used in many ways, especially it is valua ble in the manufacture of mohair gooes. 'J’he meat of the goat is little used by Americans, but the Mexicans who inhabit the coun try around the Onderdonk ranch are quite fond of the meat and nearly all of-it is sold to them or exchanged for labor on the ranch — Denver Post. Individ unity vs. Breed. What has been said, and is still beintr said about the individual merit of a cow or bull being much more important pricemaker than its breed, applies with euual force to the horse. For breeding purposes pedigree gives the as surance that the animal possess ing it is better qualified to repro duce its characteristics than one w hose breeding is unknown, but that is all. It is no assurance of quality. The hor3e longest on pedigree may be shortest on wind, and everything else that makes a good horse. When it comes to selling a horse for speed or strength the buyer pays as little attention to its ;•« • Igree as he does to the air it breathes. The buyer looks at the individ ual he is to invest his mom \ in, and not a long line of an e-tor* that he has never saw nor heard of. If buying for breeding the buyer wants both individual quality and assurance of purity of blood, but for other purposes he will base his priceon individual merit alone. The moral of this is that those who are raising horses for the market should not depend on pedigree or breed alone in the sires or dams used for breeding. Here purity of blood is essential to required prepotency, but it should not be the prime consideration, should not be the “whole thing,” but on ly a necessary adjunct to good quality. And as previously said, the purity of blood is of itself no assurance of quality. ' Pedigree is not the primal but the second ary consideration. First, >ee that the quality is what is w t ed then investigate the ped .». Always remembering tb. all scrubs the pedigree* .-is the worst.—Ex. In mating select medium-sized goblers. LIVE STOCK. One can often tell what a horseman is bv the character of narae^ which he gives to his horsev And then the person who is .in imitator and the one who is an originator in this re spect. Thus in the bubble days of the pacer and trotter Little Brown Jug became prominent and Boo's Jug and other Jugs without pause up to the nauseat ing point followed. Not a little of the turf talk and horse talk of that time was ou the order of the naming, trotters then began among the comparatively un known as to \.reeding, and from that they rose, as was said, to the topmost round of the ladder of fame. The well brer* horse should be decently named. In England it is no uncommon thing for farmers to buy sheep in the fall, feed ^them all winter and sell them in the spring for the same price per pound that they paid for them. They think there is money in this, as the sheep consumes a large amount of coarse food that the cattle, horses and sheep Iviil not eat. The profit is in the increased weight made of the common ma terial aud roughness. A quan tity of valuable manure is also secured at the same lime on the same feed. To allow horses or cows \o stand in accumulated filth is poor economy, as well as bad farming. It is always a good plan to pro vide bedding for stables, lor be sides adding to the horses and cattle, itlargelv increases the ma nure he* p. P armers often find their pur chases unprofitable because they are notsuitable forcircumstances rather chan that the animals were different in merit from what was supposed; thus, often, the buy ers rather than the sellers are in fault. It is often remarked that there is a mutual relation between or chards. clover and pigs. The pigs thrive on the clover and eal all the fallen and wormy fruit, the clover keeps the soil cool mel low and moist; and the treefc thrive because of the improve* ment of the soil and destruction of ' ?cts. In-auu-in breeding to a bunted extent, is not prejudicial to the produce where the parent- have been uniformily sound; but where they were full of or ser iously marked by defects, tV^ in-breeding has a tendency \ establish these in the breed, atio they are likely to be reproduced!' Kconomy in feeding requires that all animals should be sh, ed during severe weather, th| minimum ot food required forthj support of an animal being aJ tained when it is properly tered, and the maximum wln-n ;1 is running at large, exposed ^ all weathers. But comfort sists of not only warmth but a]so of cleanliness. Crystal Springs, Miss., is.juite a shipping point for vegetable We mentioned last week wlu.A l'i carloads of tomatoes were M out at one shipment. Now v chronicle 12 cars of beans aggr gating 7434 bushels at one shi ment. This beats cotton. T I l Truck s _A T Dairy ,*F0 j Farm •—■ ■ . 100 acres level land three miles from the growing manufacturing city of Laurel; the best market for truck and dairy products in Mississippi. Land will make a bale of cotton per acre with some fertilizer. Will sell this well-improved place for $2500. L. F. EASLY. Laurel, Miss Wincy Farm Berkshires. •••. On hand now a few litters as line as 1 have ever bred, ready for prompt shipment. T hese p'^s have typical heads, backs and hams and haye excellent bone, with unusual linish. Rover should order before weather frets too warm to ship. Barred Plymouth Rocks at a bargain. Address, S- Q. HOLLINGSWORTH, • Coushatta, La FANCY-BRED HEIFER FOR SALE, $100 GETS HER. Heifer MAtitJIK MELROSE, Sec ond, was dropped March 15, 18‘f) Sire Ilex ot St. Lambert: he by Exile of St. Lambert, who has 84 tested daughters and is the best hull living or dead. Dam, Maggie Melrosi? 115452, by Duke of Verona, who has 17 tested daugh ters publisher!. The dam of this heif er is now giving over five gallons of milk each day, besides what the calf gets. She has been tested by the churn at the College dairy and con tinued by the liabcock; from 42'j lbs of milk given in one day was made 3 lbs. and 4 o/ butter. The heifer is doing nicely and shows much promise: is giving now with her tirst c ilf 2' gallons of milk each day. which is better than Dam did with her first ca'f Dihjii investigation you will find nothing better bred in the State. \V. .1. (i ALLAWAY, Agricultural Collcg . Miss. I 1MARTIN L This Beautiful |TBAY stallion make the season at SI'AHK for l'M>2. lie was foaled May i j_^^m89d. Bred at Bwel Farm, Spring IUr Tenn. Martin is one best bred 1st.all ions in the South. Ilis s(,.jBjirown Hal 2:l2'i, is the chain l»i<>nW'*'e of the world, being the sire of J LucliWK,rsCS as Star Pointer l:.ri*'4, 1 Hal Willard 2:04 '4. Martin’s eolts are TalUti W‘ individuals. Liy» c have room to pasture mares Keeld the season w ith return pri\ ^^fege siVuld mare fail to get with foal. ^Kervfws due Nuv. 1. PwO. Mfcpl on.V Nos. 1 and 2d. F* M. i & G. o. DEAVENPORT. I (Success* rs U> McPowelJ & Kohorn) Inberdeen-Angus Bulls * FOR SALE, Threo-quarter grade show, full C blind- Orders*taken for Sp’-iru I delivery. A.>J. SIMPSON, i / Grenada, Mils i « > r Southern Hereford Cattle Co. Formerly Columbus Cattle Co. Hreedcrs am; Dealers in Thor oughbred Acclimated HEREFORD, ABERDEEN ANGUS and SHORTHORN Cattle. Some choice voting bulls rcadv for service for sale. In spection invited. Visitors welcome. J. E. GLADNEY Manager, WEST POINT, MISS. The Famous Burr or California Clover seed for sale at $1.50 per bushel. H. A. BEATTIE, Starkvitle, Miss. FOR FOX TERRIERS. Pups $5 each from thoroughbred -took and first prize-winners finely marked. Best rat and vermin dogs. No farmer should lie without them' will >-a»e twice their cost in a year. Also Shepherd pups front thorough bred fixe working stock, sable color, #5 each. Satisfaction guaranteed. EGGS. Prom S. White I.eghorus; S. C. Bull Leghorns; S. C. Rhode Island Reds and Black Minocra's. S2 per set ting, all from finest strains. 3:CRIGHT0N, - - Oholona, Miss. [■iazette ads. bring quick results.