THE HOME NEWS
EDITED IN THE INTEREST OF McCRORY AND WOODRUFF COUNTY
VOLUME 1.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1916
NUMBER 39
WHY LIVE STOCK
SHOULD BE RAISED
Some Advice by Love Banks,
Successful Cross County
Farmer.
There are two important rea
sous why the Arkansas farmer
should raise live stock, in the
opinion of Love Banks, who owns
a large farm at Smithdale,
Cross county, and who has made
a success of raising live stock.
The first reason is that there
is more profit and less risk inJ
raising live stock than there is in
cotton.
The second is that there has
never been in any country a per
manent successful system of agri
culture with live stock left out.
The Profitable Farming Bureau
wrote to Mr. Banks, asking him
to give his view^ on live stock
raising for the benefit of other
Arkansas farmers. lie was ask
ed to write on “Why the Farmer
Should Grow Into the Live Stock
Business.”
“I think the word ‘grow’ was
used wisely,” wrote Mr.' Banks
in reply. “For I think growing
into the live stock industry would
be profitable where going into it
might not.”
CAMPAIGN BRINGS RESULTS.
In concluding his letter, Mr.
Banks wrote:
“I am glad to say that the
profitable farming campaign put
on by you gentlemen is bringing
far better results than I had ever
hoped for.
“There are several reasons
why live stock should and can
be grown by our Arkansas far
mer,” wrote Mr. Banks.
me nrst reason is oecause
there is more money to be made
in growing live stock and there
is less risk than there is in grow
ing cotton. This is the main rea
son for anybody embarking into
any business. I have just return
ed from a trip through Missouri
and Illinois, and have been visit
ing some of the best live stock
growers in those states. Those
people have land worth $250 an
acre that will not produce any
more corn than ours, and they
have more money in the bank,
have educated their children in
colleges, have good houses and
good barns and their lands are
improving in fertility each year.
It is generally supposed that the
farmers of Arkansas are not in
. feligent enough to grow live stock
and grow them profitably. This
not a fact, but mankind are
cretures of habit, habits of
ought as well as others, are our
greatest masters, and the habits
of thought are perhaps the har
dest ones for the human family
to change. The farmers of that
county think in terms of cattle
and hogs, while we think in
terms of cotton.
LIVE STOCK NECCESSARY
“The second reason why we
should grow live stock in Arkan
sas is that there never has been
in any country, in Europe, Asia
or America, a permanent system
of agriculture where live stock
have been left out of the farm
ing operations.
“I would not advise a man who
had been growing cotton all of
his life to embark on an extreme
scale, for like the successful
growing of corn or cotton, it re
quires knowledge based upon
experience in growing to make
live stock growing a success.
“If the average tenant would
keep but from one to four cows
or heifers, and one or two sows
and breed his cows to a good
registered bull, and save each
heifer calf and keep all of the
calves in a healthy condition, he
would soon be independent.
For a little study, a piece of pa
per and a pencil will demonstrate
that one cow kept and bred for
10 years, and if every other calf
were a heifer calf, and they
were kept bred and no heifer
calves were sold, in a period of
10 years offsprings from the one
cow would amount to 62 head.
Now the amount of profit de
rived from this would depend on
the kind of bull used. The ten
ant, in 10 years has not only ac
quired the 62 head of cattle,
but has acquired the knowledge
of value of good breeding in cat
tle and how to care for them.
AS TO REGISTERED CATTLE.
“I hear a good deal of talk of
people going into the registered
cattle business. Now this
feature of the cattle business
should be approached very care
fully. Only a few men are fitted
by nature and education to grow
pedigreed live stock successfully.
There are the questions of the
superiority of one strain over
another, of the popularity of one
strain over another, and the
question of nicking one family
with another besides the ques
tion of keeping records fiting in
telligently, advertising and fitting
for the show rings.
“If I were a young man start
ing into the pure bred cattle bus
iness I would buy as good a
bull as I could afford with two or
three goods cows or heifers and
a few grades. I would not try
McCrory a Good Market, j
Mrs. W. 0. Scales of near De-.
View was the first to bring chick
ens to market in an automobile.
Last Saturday she brought ten
nice hens in her new Overland •
car for which she received $5.00.
Mrs. Scales was well pleased
with the proceeds from the sale
of her poultry and promises to be
a freqnent patron of the local
market. This is only the begin
ning of an era when farmers and
their wives will be marketing
their produce in autos, and we
are pleased to see Mrs. Scales
taking the initiative along this as
well as other lines of progressive
farming and marketing of farm
products.
Mrs. T. J. Henard topped the
poultry market Saturday by send- j
ing 21 hens and five cockrells to ;
market, receiving a total of $15.
00 for the pen. They were extra <
nice and she received one cent
per pound above the regular
quotations. In her pen of Barred
to grow many, but what I did
grow I would want to make ex
ceptionally good.
“The difference between a $300
bull and a $100 bull is only a
question of breeding and hand
ling. One is no more trouble to
raise than the other.”
Rocks she sent three hens which
sold for $1.00 each. This is a
record price for hens and Mrs.
Henard has others like these
which she will market later.
Every farmer could be marketing
just such hens as these and we
predict that the time is not far
off when people will be breeding
and raising this kind instead of
the 50 cent variety.
Mrs. John Taylor of near Bull
ville marketed a nice coop of
poultry and a case of fresh eggs
Saturday. Ask this lady how
well pleased she was with the
McCrory market.
Esq. F. B. Winfree of Tip con
tributed three large hogs to the
McCrory market last week and
received $132.70 for them. This
was just $2.70 more than Mr.
Winfree asked for the hogs and
tie is one farmer who is glad to
see a real good live hog market
at McCrory.
Mrs. W. M. Comer of north
if town closed out her entire
flock of Leghorn chickens Satur
day on the high market here and
while in town purchased a pure
bred Rhode Island Red cockrell.
Mrs. Comer has been partial to
the Leghorns for years but has
learned that* the “Reds” are
equally as good layers and bring
a great deal more on the market,
and are far more valuable on the
table. She is the first to get en
tirely rid of the Leghorns and
we will be glad to see others
profit by her good example.
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