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PLANTING SMALL GRAIN.
The season for planting wheat, barley
and rye is now upon us and it behooves
every man who advocates the policy of
living at home on the farm, to be active
in getting his lands ready for seeding
down tn small grain. Between the middle
of October and the last week in Novem
ber should cover the period of sowing
winter grain in .Georgia and adjacent
states, with the exception of oats, which
crop should be planted between the mid
dle of September and the first of Novem
ber if a good crop from fall seeding is
desired.
Unless the oat erop is planted early,
and the plants given an opportunity to
root out and secure a good hold in the
soil, a serious cold spell in January or
February is mbst likely to prove either
fatal or damaging. With oats it has been
clearly demonstrated by practical experi
ment on an extensive scale in all parts of
the south, that if the crop is drilled in
stead of being sown broadcast, there is
little or no danger of the roots of the
plants being killed by the severest freeze#
we have in February.
It makes no particular difference wheth
er the seed oats are distributed with a
regular grain drilling machine or whether
the furrows are laid off close together
and the seed put in with a guano dis
tributor. As a matter of economy ans
desirability the improved implement is
best, but in the absence of financial abil
ity to purchase a drilling machine, some
effort ought to be maae to plant the crop
tn dose shallow furrows. Whenever any
improved system has been clearly demon
strated to our satiafactionas being better
than old opes the progressive men of the
country should at once adopt it.
Preparing Land For Wheat
Land for wheat should be of fair nat
ural fertility, and then manured accord
ing to the ability of the planter. Wheat
requires, to make good growth and de
velopment.ali the elements of a complete
fertiliser, particularly that of nitrogen.
It is a nitrogenous feeder, and analysts
shows that a considerable quantity of that
element must go into the grain to perfect
R. The natural plant foods in any soil
cannot be rendered available to the de
mands of plant life, unless the soil ht s
been thoroughly broken up and pulver
ised. The nearer we put soil in the con
dition of an ash bank, the nearer we come
toward making that soil open up Its stores
of plant food. Hence It must be insisted
that the first requisite of the successful
grain grower is to get his lands in as
near perfect tilth as possible.
Aside from rendering these natural plant
. foods available by thorough preparation of
lands, it is a fact known to tjll farmers
that the young and tender roots of small
grain will more successfully branch out
in search for what it needs, than where
the soil is full of clods and hardness. I
have shown in a previous article that tn
Booth Dakota where the finest crops of
wheat in the union are annually raised,
the soil freezes to a depth of four feet in
winter, and while thawing out in the
spring during planting time and later, it
ft becomes fully pulverised to that depth.
What nature does for the northwest we
are forced to do. or should do as nearly
as possible with the plow and harrow.
Break the land as deeply as possible and
then harrow until the soil is in proper
condition.
Labor is becoming a serious problem on
many farms in the south, and whenever
it is not possible to prepare as large an
area as desired, cut the acreage down
and do well, that which is done at all.
Better results will be obtained and a
bigger and more satisfactory profit on the
undertaking will be realized at harvest
time. Now this question of preparing the
land, both for the field crop and patches
is a most Important one and should re
ceive the attention it tperits. The average
yield of wheat per acre in Georgia is en
tirely too low, compared with the possibil
ities of the soil and what has been and
is being produced here every year by men
who take a deep Interest in that crop. The
average should be easily raised from 12 to
15 bushels per acre to 25 and 30 bushels
per acre.
Fertilizing and Planting.
I In all of my experience in growing
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Atlanta, Ga.
wheat on the red lands of middle Georgia,
covering a period of the past 20 years, I
am free to confess that no fertllser has
ever given me the results obtained from
the liberal application of green cotton
seed and I do not think any fertiliser for
mula for the wheat crop has ever been
made up out of any other material which
is superior. But the farmers all over the
country have gotten Into the habit of
either selling their seed straight out to
the oil mills or else exchanging the seed
for meal. As the meal is not in itself a
complete fertilizer, it is necessary to add
the other two elements of potash and
phosphoric acid to make it sb. Where a
commercial fertilizer is used, either
bought from the manufacturer complete
or the ingredients mixed at home, the fol
lowing formula has been tried sufficiently
to recommend its use generally on all
wheat lands in this and adjoining states;
Acid phosphate <l4 per cent)....250 pounds
Cotton seed meal 3*o pounds
Muriate of potash 60 pounds
Apply this mixture to each acre or re
duce in proportionate parts. If kainit is
used in place of muriate, take 200 pounds.
In March apply 50 pounds of nitrate of so
da broadcast per acre on the wheat as a
top dressing.
The nitrate of soda imparts new life and
vigor to the plants, and pushes the crop
rapidly forward in its growth toward ma
turity. In planting wheat, either in drills
or broadcast, the grain should be lightly
covered. It is bad policy to sow wheat
broadcast on unbroken land and then plow
it tn with a turn plow, trying te do two
things at once, breaking and covering
Prepare the land first and then plant
with a drilling machine, or if sown broad
cast. cover with a harrow, dressing off
with a common smoother or roller. A field
of wheat, where the land has been prop
erly prepared and fertilized, with the
grain nicely planted, will always present
an attractive appearance from time of
planting to harvest.
There 1s no better variety of wheat for
the south, and Georgia especially, than the
little Georgia purple stem. The heads are
small, compact, always well filled under
good culture and the yield In every in
stance superior to other varieties shipped
in here from a distance. Plant one bushel
per acre, though some of our best wheat
producers advocate one and a quarter
bushel*. Never plant wheat without soak
ing it a few hours in a solution of blue
stone. One pound of blue stope melted tn
boiling water and mixed with‘enough wat
er to emerse five bushels of grain is about
the right proportion. There will be no
smut in the field the following spring if
this rule is adopted, as the blue stone
will kill out the smut germ before the
grain is planted.
Small Patches.
No farmer should neglect having an acre
or two planted either in wheat, barley or
rye, as a green patch for grazing or cut
ting during winter for stock and cattle.
No home In the country looks complete
without these green patches surrounding
it. and no farmer is doing his duty by his
stock unless he takes the time and pains
to have this green feed in abundance for
them during the long months of winter
when everything in the pasture has been
killed by freezes. There is no more beau
tiful sight in winter than fields of green
grain. Aside from their beauty, they help
in the commendable desire to make the
farm self sustaining.
During the past few years the farmers
of Georgia have exhibited a disposition
along this line which if persisted in will
solve many perplexing problems and free
them from dependence so much on the
grain fields of the west. Roller mills are
being built in many sections of the state,
and in such localities I have noticed that
farmers are independent of western flour,
and that the merchants handle the product
of our mills in all towns where they are
located. These are hopeful signs and point
uneeringly to the not distant day when
our people will once more live at home
and enjoy the freedom of old time pros
perity.
HARVIE JORDAN.
EXCHANGES.
Wheat Yields In Georgia.
Practical Fruit Grower.
Georgia is not considered a wheat
growing state, but the following item
proves that large yields can be grown
I there. Under the stimulus of the Inter
est aroused by some of the leading busi
' ness men of Athens, who offered liberal
prizes for best yields of wheat and oats,
open to the farmers of ten counties
around Athens, a number of farmers
competed for the honors. The land was
measured, and a committee witnessed the
harvesting of the grain. Results: The
first prize of >IOO was awarded to a far
mer who raised 120 bushels of wheat on
three acres. For best one acre, a Gresh
amville farmer was awarded $25 for his
yield of 47 bushels. Best three acres of
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOUKNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2D. 1901.
oats was made in Clarke county; yield,
257 bushels; prize, $75 in gold. The best
single acre measured 100 bushels; S2O was
the size of the prize.
This shows what can be done by thor
ough work. If business men in other
parts of the country would imitate the
example of the Athens men, they would
be the means of doing a great service to
their community. It is natural for any
people to do better work if there is a
prize tn prospect. Such a test as was
made at Athens would give an impetus
to thorough culture that would be per
manent, and it would spread over the en
tire country.
Feeding Cattle. ,
An Exchange.
Cato’s celebrated answer to the Roman
senate when asked “what is the surest
way to enrich a nation” is as true in
A. D. 1901. as in B. C. 246. The answer
was couched in two words, "feeding cat
tle.” Cato was a great farmer and cat
tle feeder, as well as a great general and
statesman. Great truths like this live
more than 2000 years.
Our Wheat Crop.
An Excnange.
Europe has an estimated shortage of
400,000,000 bushels of wheat. This country
has an estimated surplus of 300,000,000
bushels. Under the conditions wheat will
bring a good price. Already the exports
are running ahead of any previous sea
son. On Monday last 1,754 000 bushels were
shipped abroad, being the largest single
day’s record in history by 89.000 bushels.
The next largest day’s shipment was on
the previous M0nday—1,,665,000 bushels.
Ine heaviest shipments ever made in one
week was last week, when they amount
ed to 9,039,009 bushels. This shows that
famine in this country is practically im
possible. for conditions that shorten one
bread crop benefit another.
Raising Wheat. (
Following are conclusions arrived at by
the Arkansas experiment station in re
gard to wheat raising:
1. Breaking the soil deeper than 8 inches
does not increase the yield of wheat, while
below 8 inches the yield decreases as the
depth of breaking decreases.
2. Thorough disking followed by rolling
seems to be the best preparation for
wheat Just before it is sown.
3. Thorough preparation gave an in
creased yield of 50 per cent over poor pre
paration.
4. Thorough preparation of the seed bed
diminishes winter killing.
5. Thorough preparation of the seed bed
diminishes ttie bad effects of drouth.
6. Five or six pecks of seed per acre
gave the most profitable yields.
7. Growing such legumes as cowpeas,
soja beans and beggar weeds on light
sandy soil deficient in humus increased
the yield of a following crop of wheat 56.5
per cent.
8. The stubble of legumes plowed under
gave almost invariably a better field than
the whole plant plowed under to the sub
sequent crop when the latter is planted a
short time after legumes were plowed un
der.
9. Plowing under a large quantity of
green material just before planting
seemed to exert a directly injurious effect
upon the subsequent crop.
10. Cowpeas sown after harvesting rye
and Irish potatoes increased the subse
quent crop of wheat 30 per cent when
compared with that sown after Irish po
tatoes and rye not followed by.cowpeas.
11. Wheat grown continuously on the
same ground for three years and each
crop preceded by a crop of cowpeas gave
an increased yield of 46.7 per cent 4 com
pared with breaking the wheat stubble
and not sowing peas.
12. Fertilizing cowpeas with 200 pounds
of acid phosphate and 100 pounds of mu
riate potash increased the yield of wheat
that followed 58 per cent.
13. Wheat sown upon cowpea stubble
plowed under and fertilized with 400
pounds of a complete fertilizer gave an
average yield of 64.4 per cent and 78.5 per
cent increased yield the second year over
soil treated only in the usual way.
14. Early Ripe. India Swamp, Purple
straw. Pool, Red May, Red Wonder and
Tennessee Fultz are the varieties that
have given the best results.
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CHICAGO WINS TAX FIGHT.
Millions Are Added to the Taxable
Property of the Windy City.
SPRINGFIELD. 111., Oct. 24.—The su
preme court today affirmed the decision
of the lower court in the Chicago teach
ers’ case, in which they insisted that the
capital stock of corporations should be
assessed. The ruling will add over SIOO,-
000,000 to the taxable property in Chicago.
MUNICIPAL FRANCHISES
ARE ALL GONS GLIMMERING.
CHICAGO, Oct. 24.—The tax decision
given today by the Illinois supreme court
relates to twenty-three local corporations
enjoying municipal franchises, including
traction companies, gas companies and
electric companies, whose total stock was
estimated to be worth $368,000,000, all of
which had escaped taxation previously
and was likely to be omitted again by the
state board, which adjourned last Decem
ber without assessing this vast amount of
property. '
The trial of the case was begun before
Judge Thompsan, in Springfield, March
23, and the decision was handed down
May 2, commanding the board to reas
semble June 13, and assess these corpora
tions in accordance with the rules of the
board in registered to assessment of the
capital stock. But the board not only
neglected to make the assessment, but re
pealed the rules of the board on the sub
ject which have been in force for thirty
years and had been sustained by the
United States supreme court as the only
legal plan of assessment. What was con
sidered the weak point in the teachers’
case was that the mandamus was asked
while the board was still in session, and
while it was protesting that it meant to
do the very thing the mandamus required.
The teachers’ contention was that of a
continuing body and that it had refused
for years to make these assessments and
that if a mandamus could not issue until
after the board had adjourned it might
as well never be Issued at all and there
was absolutely no way to compel the
board to perforin its manifest duty. The
teachers’ view of the case seems to have
been sustained by the supreme court.
Broad as is the sweep of this decision
in itself, its logical results are -much
greater as the decision, it is said, really
applies as well to railroad corporations
and every other corporation in the state
and may lead to the collection of back
taxes.
Bohemian Author Burled in Chicago.
CHICAGO. Oct. 25.—Paul Ailier, the Bo
hemian author, killed by a railroad train
in Texas, was buried here today. Thous
ands of Bohemians, Including a delegation
from Texas, and representatives of Bohe
(nian organizations in various parts of the
country, were present at the funeral.
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NEGRO FIEND DIES
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AS THE FLAMES LEAP HIGH THE
TORTURED MAN ADMITS THAT
HE DCSERVED HIS FATE.
COLUMBIA, Miss., Oct. 25.—8i1l Morris,
the negro who assaulted and outraged
Mrs. John Ball at Balltown, La., was
burned at the stake today, the victim of
the mob's fury calmly declaring that he
deserved his horrible fate. He endured
the agony of the flames with marvelous
stoicism.
He was today carried to the scene of
his crime and there tied to a pine sap
plfng with chains and his hands and feet
chained to his body. Pine knots and
pine straw were piled about the body
and saturated with coal oil and the
whole set on fire. The negro made no
outcry when the flames first reached him
and only when he was partly consumed
did the spectators notice any movement
on the part of the wretch, who had. com
mitted the foul deed. He made no resist
ance when being bound to the stake and
said that he deserved his fate.
Mrs. Ball, who conducts a store, was
waiting on the negro when he clutched
her by the throat, dragged her off down
hill and accomplished his purpose. After
that he beat her in the head with a pine
kndt and tnought he had killed her.
Going back to tl.e store, he% collected
all the change that was in the cash
drawer and had presence of mind enough
to put coal oil on his feet when leaving
the store. ' ,
Mrs. Ball, however, recovered conscious
ness and crawled to her father-in-law s.
..e at once gave the alarm and the
neighborhood gathered and commenced
a search for the negro. He was round
at his home about four miles from the
scene of the tragedy and at once ran off,
when he was shot at by one of the posse
and wounded in the hip.
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KANSAS CITY, Oct. 25.—The Galloway
Cattle Breeders’ Association of America,
whose members are meeting here, elected
the following officers: ■
James Myers, president; James W.
Byers Ohio, vice president, and J. P.
Martin, Sutherland, la., third vice presi
dent.
Dr. Charles E. Stoner Dead.
DES MOINES, la., Oct. 25.—Dr. Charles
F Stoner a prominent physician ana
recognized authority in bacteriology, died
here from an attack of typhoid fever. He
was 43 years old.
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AS WOMAN PRAYED
SHE SHOT THE FALLS
DARING MRS. TAYLOR SUCCESS-
FULLY RIDES THE RAPIDS AND
PLUNGES OVER NIAGARA.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y„ Oct. 25.—Mrs.
Annie Edson Taylor, 50 years old, went
over Niagara Falls on the Canadian side
yesterday afternoon and survived, a feat
never before accomplished and never at
tempted except in the deliberate com
mission of suicide. She made the trip
in a barrel. Not only did she survive, but
escaped without a broken bone, her only
apparent injury being a scalp wound one
and one-half inches long, a slight concus
sion of the brain, some shock to her ner
vous system and bruises about the body.
She was conscious when taken out of the
barrel. The doctors in attendance upon
her last night said that though she was
somewhat hysterical, her condition’is not
at all serious and that she probably will
be out of bed in a few days. -
Mrs. Taylor’s trip covered a mile ride
through the Canadian rapids before she
reached the brink of the precipice. Her
barrel, stanch as a barrel could be made,
was whllrled and buffeted through those
delirious waters, but escaped serious con
tact with rocks. As it passed through the
smoother, swifter waters that rushed over
into the abyss it rode in an almost per
pendicular position with its upper half
out of the water.
As it passed over the brink it rode at
angle of about 45 degrees on the outer
surface of the deluge and descended grace
fully to the white, foaming water 158
feet below.
True to her calculation, the anvil fas
tened to the bottom of the barrel kept
it foot downward and so it landed. Had
it turned over and landed on its head,
Mrs. Taylor’s head must have been crush
ed in and her neck broken.
The ride through the rapids occupied
eighteen minutes. It was 4:23 o’block
when the barrel took its leap. It could
not be seen as it struck the water ber
low. because of the spray, but in less than
half a minute after it passed over the
brink it was seen on the surface of the
scunr-covered water below the falls.
It was carried swiftly down to the
green water beyond the scum; then half
way to the Maid of the Mist eddy and
held there until floated so close to the
shore that it was reached by means of a
pole and hook and drawn in upon the
rocks at 4:40 o’clock, seventeen minutes
after it shot the cataract.
The woman was lifted from the barrel
and half an hour later she lay on a
cot at her boarding place, in Niagara
Falls, on the American side. She said she
would never do it again, but that she was
not sorrv she did it. “if it would help her
financially.” She said she had prayed all
during the trip, except during “a few mo
ments” of unconsciousness just after her
descent.
The barrel in which Mrs. Taylor made
the journey is four and one-half feet high
and about three feet in diameter. A leath
er harness and cushions inside protected
her body. Air was secured through a
rubber tube connected with a small open
ing near the top of the barrel.
Mrs. Taylor is a school teacher and re
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Thoughts on the Harvesting of Forage.
Too much forage can not be saved by the
farmers. I have never observed another
year in middle Georgia when as mueb hay
and other so-called rough feed could be
secured from the land as this season. If
sufficient barn room for the hay cannot
be found, stack it.
Hay producing countries like England
abound In stacks, and they are so care
fully made that the hay or grain in the
straw will keep perfectly for years. If
the farmer has no skilled stack builder,
It will pay him to hire one, if practicable,
who has had experience in this line.
Those who build the best hay stacks say
the art consists largely in keeping the
middle full and combing with a pitchfork
the outside. This combing is to arrange
the stalks of hay so they will point to the
center of the stack, thereby forming a
natural thatch about the stack to shed
water like shingles on a roof. Keeping
the middle fuller than the rest of the
stack, which middle Is also better packed
down by the man’s weight as each fork
full is placed, gives all the grass in the
stack a lean downward and outward from
the center.
The remark regarding the building of
water shedding stacks is called for from
the writer’s own experience, as well as
from observation. No ordinary negro la
borer can build a good stack that will shed
rain. No stack eyer leaks water In Eu
rope, where every laborer lives under a
tight thatched roof of hay or straw. To
day I have noticed hay mown, cured and
hauled up to the stack in good order, that
will be rotten before spring if left in the
present stack, built by unskilled labor.
A well built stack insures about as good
hay as that in the barn, with the excep
tion of a little on the outside necessarily
exposed to the weather.
Let us all profit from the exceptional
grass crop. What has occurred this year
cannot be undone. I mean the grass has
taken possession of land heretofore bar
ren, and the blessing of the exceptional
rainfall of the summer of 1901 will abide
as immortal as other good and evil things
in life. Those to come after us will be, as
we have been, benefitted by nature’s ex
traordinary growth of vegetation.
I have seen this year tons and tons of
hay that has grown on land that hereto
fore knew not the mowing machine. While
it may be true that the selling of forage
is like selling the soil from the land itself,
but even this is not as rapid away of im
poverishing one’s holdings of land as the
barren clean culture that hastens the soil
to the creeks and rivers by aid of washing
tropic rains. The grass roots remain to
hold the soil from washing, and enough
of the stems are left to aid nature in her
benificent laboratory work in man’s be
half.
The ideal farming, however, includes the
, husbanding of ail possible forage crops,
and the feeding of all saved upon the farm
itself to the domestic animals on the place
where the forage is raised.
Every hay eating domestic animal is
benefited by being furnished with all the
clean hay he will eat. This In a manger or
box cleaned from all rubbish daily.
This department is charged with many
inquiries regarding filth eating horses
and mules. Such habits I have never
known formed by copiously hay fed equine
animals.
I emphasize this matter because In the
cotton states under the old regime it was
customary to feed mules corn according
to the worje, and corn blades in bundles
carefully and economically counted out to
each animal; The bundles of fodder were
eaten up clean with no debris. W’ith hay
such clearing of the manger is not prac
ticable, for much of the mass In the hay
from natural meadows is unfit for horse
food. Hence there must remain much
waste to be daily removed from the man
ger to make room for the daily feed and to
keep the horse in enjoyment of his hay
ration.
Better ultimate results arise from the
sale of the animals or their products,
rather than from the sale of raw ma
terials. Such farming means a future for
the boys and girls who are to depend upon
the ever increasing producing capacity of
the farm.
If Henry George and the French sa
vants who before him formulated the
idea of state ownership of land, nave any
truth in their theory, the system of farm
ing which necessarily deteriorates the
land is really an offense against the state.
It also follows that he who benefits , the
land under his care and keeping Is a bene
factor to the people.
I firmly am convinced that there is no
happiness worthy of the name in life, ex
cept that feeling that wholly arises from
benificent acts on the part of the Indi
vidual. HLNT.
Mange.
I have a pair of mules affected with a
skin disease something like itch. One of
them has had it for two years. They fre
quently bite themselves.
They get better for a while and then
seem to be worse off than before.
In the worst stages of this disease they
sweat at night.
They fall of in flesh for a few days and
then pick up again.
There are no chicken mites about tne
stalls. I have fed them on sulphur; bled
them in the neck, and washed them all
over In bluestone water and they are not
Please tell me through The Journal
what the disease is, and what will cure
R. L. VV•
Scottsboro, Ga.
Answer—For the ordinary mange mite,
I use an ointment of common sulphur, 6
ounces; train, or other oil. 1 pint; spirits
of turpentine, 3 ounces; mix and rub well
Into the skin every third day for two or
three weeks.
Paint the whole wood w °rk
with pure kerosene oil, soaking it into
crevices of the wood. Soak harness in
any kind of oil. .
All these precautions are necessary to
keep the mites from again Infesting the
animals. Sulphur given in the food is
nractically useless in mange. If you pre
fer to use some of the patent mange
cures, almost any of them will prove ef
fective if you will apply every third day
f£ a sufficient time to kill all those in
the egg that subsequently hatch out.
If this treatment does not cure, report
back to me. B w ’
Big Head.
Mv colt’s head Is enlarged between the
the nostrils, rie Is a little stiff
or tied up in his gait. Some people say
the trouble is big bead. Please prescribe
and oblige,
SanfordviUe, Ga.
Answer—You have a case of incipient so
called big head. Hasten your treatment
if possible to cure before grass Is Killed
by frost.
I have never known a case satisractor
ily treated in winter, and never known a
failure in summer, when the horse was
turned to grass with the treatment I shall
Ad vise.
Commence by giving the colt one ounce
a day in wheat brain of hyposulphite of
soda and phosphate of lime, mixed equal
parts by weight.
Give this treatment for eight consecu
tive days.
Then for eight days give alternately a
dessertspoonful one day of stramonium,
and the next day a heaping tablespoonfal
of sulphur.
After the eight days on this latter
treatment, go back to the first, and so on,
until colt shall be cured. Do not feed any ,
hay, corn, oats or dry food other than
the little wheat bran in which he takes
the medicine, if you can turn him out to
graze.
During storms keep the colt protected
from rain and feed him on green succu
lent food cut fresh.
In winter when green food cannot be
obtained, treat the same way. only omit
treatment for a few days. Don’t expect
to cure until grass comes. The medicine,
however, even in winter will hold the dis
ease in check.
The animal must have hay when there
Is no green food growing, and this had
best be wet the day before, so he will
eat it moist. B. W. H.
Cultivating the Southern Trade.
Editorial from The Breeder’s Gazette.
"That the southern field white unto the
harvest should be longer neglected by the
breeders of beef cattle would seem thor
oughly out of consonance with the Intelli
gence and enterprise that now direct the
movement for the spread of improving
blood. We have pushed the conquering
columns of pedigreed blood far out into
the western ranges. We look with covet
ous eye on the South American trade and
bewail the restrictions that have blighted
our hopes, and yet for a third of a <.*n
tury we .have neglected a field that lies
only across an imaginary line. There
has been plenty of talk about developing
I the beef cattle industry in the south, but
very little action. Fas-seeing breeders
have long apprehended the situation the
oretically, but no leader has arisen. The
mountain has been to come to fl
Mahomet. The mountain is practically
Immovable. The figurative Mahomet, like
the actual Mahomet the Prophet, should
after all these years be willing to go to
the mountain. Little driblets of streams
of Improving blood have been started to
ward the south where mighty rivers .
should have rolled. With zeal kindled to
a blaze of determination enterprising
southern men—venturesome is perhaps
the better word—have invested small and
large sums in pedigreed cattle and have
attempted a start. We all know the
story. It Is told again in simple fashion
by a correspondent in this issue. Their
investmen- has been largely burned up by •
the fever. That spectral Nemesis of
southern cattle improvement stalks ever
in the path.
"Do our experiment stations sigh for
farther worlds to conquer? How many
of them have addressed themselves to the
solution of this problem ’which once
solved would redeem the south? Two sta
tions out of the many interested have
worked at it and to their everlasting
credit be it said have achieved a gratify
ing measure of success. Vaccination is
now prophylactic to such a degree that
it is reasonable and economical to prac
tice it on all cattle that are to be shipped
south of the deadly fever line. Hence
pertinent enough is our correspondent’s
suggestion that if auction sales are to be
inaugurated in the south by breed asso
ciations the cattle offered should, be ren
dered Irimune to the fever. If cattie of
that kind can be drafted we imagine that
there will be no need of cataloguing the
sort of bulls that Colonel Woods wants
included in the discarded one-third; the
better class will bring fair prices. Educa
tion is not the prime thing needed In the
south; money to project the improvement
can be commanded. The imperative, the
essential factor, is a guarantee against t
loss by the destructive fever. Given this
guarantee we believe that the enterpris
ing agricultural leaders in the south
would create a market that would absorb
quickly the now rapidly-diminishing sur
plus of our pure-bred beef herds. Espe
cially would the bulls be cleaned out.
“For be it understood that cotton seed
and canebreaks, along with the native
grasses of the south, will discount wholly
the free range in cattle-breeding and
feeding. The death-dealing blizzard blows
not over the sunny south. Loss is nil. All
the feed in the winter time does not go
merely to sustenance. As a matter of
fact the advantages offered by some sec
tions of the south for the breeding and
feeding of beef cattle are little less than
marvelous, and the only wonder is that
effort has not long since been made to de
velop this industry there. But the south
wants the assurance of value received
for its investments. This burnt child
dreads the fire. Offer catHe inoculated
against the fever and it will buy. fl
"This is a Macedonian cry that comes
from the south. In helping those below
the line northern breeders will help them
selves. Is not the time ndw ripe?”
One year’s care of cattle will extermi
nate cattle ticks,the only carriers of cattle
fever. This Is the proper method of pro
cedure for the south. The truly economic
way, vaccination, is a preventive, but the
tick is then left with us to necessitate
the raising of calves on tick-infested pas
tures. If calves be raised about barns
and first turned to pasture over a year
old they will die as readily after being
born south as cattle bom north of the
St. Lawrence river in Canada.
It Is not the place of birth that produces
immunity in some southern raised cattie.
Those that are Immune have been made
so by the introduction Into the animal
while young of the true fever germ. This
is done by the cattle tick, which never
has yet lived in sufficient numbers over
winter about my barns to infect my
calves and render them immune. I make
them immune in one of two ways. Usual
ly I put them on low, moist tick-infested
ground to graze and gather ticks on their
bodies while very young. They thus take
up few enough ticks to allow the youffg
animals to develop a resistency that old
ones are not capable of. Sometimes I take
the blood from the jugular vein of a cow
covered with ticks and Inject this under
the loose skin of the neck of the animals
which I desire to make immunes of.
This produces genuine fever, but has J
not so far resulted In a’single fatal case
with me. Both methods are better than .
dead cows, but the extermination of the
tick itself is in the line of greatest bene
fit. B ’
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