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OUR SHEEP RAISING.
The South the Beet Country on
the Globe for Them.
MAKES FARMERS RICH.
The Greal ProipM’l* for Nheep Kiilm
cr« in the Noulh Thoroughly
anti Clearly Net Forth.
From the Mannfactnrerz' Record.
Sheep-raising in tho Southern states is
too important a matter to be allowed to
fail of achievement from the lack
of enterprise of the farmers. If con
ducted with proper care and due business
enterprise it will not only pay, but pay
well. In the Chicago market the best
sheep and lambs bring from $6.00 to $7.00
per 100 pounds, and the demand for them
there and at other points is steadily in
creasing. Not only do they bring good
returns from wool and mutton, but they
enrich tho laud on which they are pas
tured and increase its value.
A Wisconsin farmer writes that the
sheep husbandry is the most profitable
branch of farming, and many a man who
began with nothing can show SIOO,OOO or
more to prove what sheep can do. Our
bankers and business men have found
sheep a safe and profitable investment.
Two men in this region have sold sheep
on long time to the farmers of Dakota to
the value of $200,000, and their capital
thus invested has netted 15 per cent, in
terest. They have never lost a dollar in
this business, the sheep proving ample
security, while the farmers who bought
them have in many cases made 100 per
cent, per annum on their investment, or
rather the investmt nt which the sheep
made for them.
SOUTHERN STATES THE BEST.
At the present time the most favorable
openings for sheep husbandry are in the
Southern states east of the Mississippi
river. In fact, it is the ideal region of all
the world for raising both wool ami mut
ton. Even in the border states sheep can
graze outdoors nearly every day in the
year, and the mild winter is a business
fact of immense value. It saves the
profit-devouring expense of our long
northern winter and permits the feeder
to take advantage of the high spring mar
ket both for lambs ami mutton. The cli
mate is one of the best in the world for
developing combing wool, as it promotes
a longjstaple and avoids the faulty break
between the summer ami winter growth.
In the Carolinas and Georgia, and in
all the Gulf states, sheep get their own
living on the range the year around, and
hundreds of thousands are thus living
without being fed, many of them having
no owners. A few men have as high as
5,000 of these native sheep which run at
large and bring their owners about $1 00
per year net income.
SOUTHERN SHEEP HARDY.
These southern sheep are hardy and
shear four pounds of wocl. They can lie
bought at $1.50 per head and make an
available basis for large flocks.
Most northern men would prefer to
have their range enclosed for many good
reasons, ami tin l s>outh offers the cheap
est and most desirable sheep farms in the
world. Oneor more plantations embody
ing both cleared and timber land can be
bought for a song and enclosed with wire
fence, which if well stocked with sheep,
would give their owner a better income
than the costly estate of many an English
baron or German count. On some of the
German estates of 25,000 acres it is cus
tomary to carry* flocks of 10,000 French
merinos, which are as large as common
down sheep and just the type we want in
the south. In a few’ years the sheep
would not only pay for the lands, but
make them as rich as any virgin lands.
Many tracts of the best pine, hardwood
and coal lands, which will soon double
and quadruple in value, can still be had
at a mere nominal price. There are no
better sheep lands in the world, ami if
enclosed and stocked with sheep, the
profits of two or three years would pay
for the land and all improvements.
I recently received a letter from a
friend living in the region of Birming
ham, Ala. He was brought up a shep
herd in England, and has kept sheep in
Alabama for over twenty years, and con
siders it the best sheep region in the
world. He now controls 12,(XX) acres of
desirable coking coal lands, the mineral
right costing only $2.00 and the fee sim
ple not over $5.00 per acre, even when
well covered with valuable timber. This
is also the best of fruit land, the mining
and manufacturing towns near by fur
nishes a ready market. If the same land
were in California, with less desirable
market, the papers would be booming it
at SIOO an acre.
SOUTHERN LANDS CHEAP.
1 know of many valuable traes of long
leaf pine that would make ideal Bhe?p
ranches, one especially in Central Geor
gia, a compact body of 70,(XX) acres of
good timber. It. excels also as farming
and fruit laud, and the price per acre is
no more than that of a common sheep.
I also recall a tract of 11,(XX) acres of
hardwood lands near Chattanooga, Tenn.,
that any flock of sheep would lx? glad to
call their home, and would pay for in
two or three years The timber even
now will far more than pay for the land.
Anyone who lives in the south or stays
long enough to become thoroughly ac
quainted sees hundreds of such chances,
without doubt the best in the world to
day.
I will cite only one more incident to
prove what sheep can do. An able
young man went south to manage an
iron works. He found sheep running
wild on the splendid range. He enclosed
one or two old farms, about 1,000 acres,
secured a competent shepherd and
stocked them with the native sheep.
THE ARGUS; DALTON, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1893.
Ijast year he cleared $5,000 on an in vest
ment of $3,000, and found that his sheep
paid better than his iron. He now has
over S,(MX) sheep, and is arranging to
make it 50,000.
Whether it shall prove profitable or
othwrwise to raise sheep on the aban
doned farms of New England, it is
plainly profitable to raise them on the
abandoned farms of the south.
“MAINE HOCiN.”
O, Georgia land in the land of cotton,
Hain and bacon moat forgotten—
Raise hogs,
Raise hogs,
And you’ll all grow fat in Georgia.
From brisk Atlanta clean to Macon
Country should be slick with bacon —
Raise hogs,
Raise hogs.
Ami you’ll all grow fat in Georgia.
O, cotton is the country killin',
Ham an' backbone’s heap more fillin’—
Raise hogs,
Raise hogs,
And you'll all grow fat in Georgia.
—Frank 1.. Stanton.
More Hogs Wanted.
The reports from the pork centers
of the west show that the scarcity of
pork and lard may be expected to
continue.
High prices are drawing to the
market a class of animals that should
have been kept three months longer.
The present supply is taken from the
future, and still the shortage is serious
ly felt. During the past week the
receipts of hogs have been 60 per cent
of the number received a year ago.
They advanced considerably last week,
and the best sold at $7.75 per hundred
pounds against $1.30 a year ago.
Pork advanced in the western cities7s
cents a barrel, lard 85 cents a hundred
ami ribs 50cents a hundred during the
week.
With these facts before them, our
southern farmers should require fto
urging to induce them to increase their
hog product. High prices will prevail
for some time to come, and every ad
ditional hog in the south is another
step towards independence,self-support
and comfort. We are abundantly
supplied with raised corn and there is
no earthly reason why we should not
raise all the hogs we need. —Atlanta
Constitution.
IIA M 1»N.
Two dimpled hands
Outstretched in glee,
As pink and as while,
As shells of the sea;
O, softly caress them
And well, for 1 wish
That such tiny hands
Were made to kiss!
Two slender hands,
All dazzling witli gems—
As soft and as white,
As lilies on their stems;
O, lovingly clasp them
And kiss—for I ween
That such dainty hands,
Thou never hast seen.
Two toil-worn hands
On a pulseless breast,
So hard and so brown—
Tired hands, now at rest!
O, reverently fold them, •
For she's gone to stay
Where the weary old bauds
Are at rest for aye.
—Augusta Wall.
Death of Jas. G. Blaine.
Hon. Jas. G, Blaine has passed over
to the great majority, and the world is
mourning the loss. Air. Blaine was the
idol of sixty millions of people, the tow
ering giant of Aineriqpn statesmanship,
the defender of American honor and in
stitutions, the matchless orator of the
United States, the greatest American of
the age. Upon his eloquent tongue our
national congress hung for thirty years
enrapt, and his every public utterance
the nations of the earth inclined their
ear to catch. In summing up his won
derful powers and public virtues, it is
but just to say he was as wise and di
plomatic as Benjamin Franklin, as patri
otic as George Washington, as versatile
and eloquent as Henry Clay, as profound
and powerful as Daniel Webster. In a
word he was the greatest American who
has ever lived. He came from the ranks
and he rose from obscurity to the
pinnacle of fame, and his distinguished
services in both houses of congress, and
in the cabinets of two presidents has
made his name famous throughout the
world, and every person is anxious to
read the story of his wonderful career.
T. C. Crawford, Esq., who has so ablv
prepared the life of Mr. Blaine, has en
ijoyed the confidence of Mr. Blaine for
upwards of twenty years, and was his
most confidential friend and companion
in years past; also passed through politi
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made him eminently fitted to prepare
this work better than any living man.
The book is endorsed by those from
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This is due largely to the great in
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The Good Work Goes On—The Time
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Come and let me build you a house, as I
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I have also some fine inside lots to put
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CIRCULATION, 1,032.
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The Argus publishes the following
affidavit made by its Mr. N. H. Haddock,
which tells a tale of its own. When The
Argus changed hands in August, its cir
culation was between four and five hun
dred, and its present management is nat
urally proud of its wonderful growth.
Here is the affidavit:
[copy.]
GEORGIA, Whitfield Co:
Personally appeared before me, this
17th day of January, 1893, Norwood H.
Haddock, who upon oath swears that he
is pressman for The Dalton Argus, and
that for the past three weeks he has
printed forty-three quires of paper. (1,032
copies) on each form of The Argus for
each of those three weeks, and that those
figures represent its circulation.for each
of those three weeks.
f ) R. I. Peak,
I j Notary Public Whitfield County.
Dalton, Ga., Jan. 17, 1893.
That is what our pressman says—and
the pressman certainly ought to know
how many papers he prints.
And The Argus is still booming. It
propost's to have 2,000 regular subscrib
ers by January 1, 1894.
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