The Bulletin. 9 



Careful statistics show that the average person in the United States, 

 including men, women and children, consumes 182. G pounds of meat 

 in one year. Should this average be correct for North Carolina, our 

 people consume, basing our calculation on a population of 2, -200, 000, 

 about 401,720,000 pounds of meat yearly. It will be seen from 

 these figures that, should all of our animals be slaughtered in one 

 year, we would still have to purchase 77,920,000 pounds of meat to 

 supply the demand. At an average price of 12 1-2 cents a pound this 

 will amount to $0,740,000 annually. 



This drain on our resources is enormous, and lends great emphasis 

 to the need of more live stock, especially hogs, in North Carolina. 

 There is no State in the Union where hogs can be raised more cheaply 

 than in North Carolina. Our soils and climate are especially adapted 

 to the peanut, soy bean, cowpca, red and alsike clovers, sweet pota- 

 toes, chufa and other cheap hog feeds, all of which flourish during the 

 summer months. This is the latitude also where crimson clover, burr 

 clover, hairy vetch, rape, rye, oats, etc., grow luxuriantly in the fall, 

 winter and spring, thus providing an ample supply of feed for hogs 

 and other farm animals the year round. Many of our farmers are 

 taking advantage of this opportunity to produce cheap meat, and 

 are making it pay handsomely. We urge that this line of farming 

 be e:iv?n much wider limits in the State. 



CORN AND OATS 



During 1909 we grew 48,686,000 bushels of corn on 2,898,000 

 acres, this being an average of 16.8 bushels per acre. During the 

 past year we grew 3,234,000 bushels of oats on 196,000 acres, this 

 being an average of 22 bushels per acre. 



We had 373,000 mules and horses in the State last year. A mule 

 or a horse at hard work will consume six pounds of oats and three 

 pounds of corn per day. At this rate of consumption the work ani- 

 mals of the State will consume 25,524,390 bushels of oats and 7,- 

 322,150 bushels of corn during the year. 



Among the replies to our inquiry we found ninety-six that listed 

 corn and eighty-five that listed oats. The amounts and values are 

 given below : 



CORX, BUSHELS 1,342,232 



VALUE @ 60 CENTS A BUSHEL $ 805,339.20 



OATS, BUSHELS 706,282 



VALUE @ 45 CENTS A BUSHEL $ 317,826.90 



TOTAL VALUE $1,123,166.10 



From the above -figures it will be seen that we had to import 22,390 

 bushels of oats to supply the demand in case all of our work stock were 



