78 



DOMESTIC ANIMALS, DAIRYING, ETC. 



ing, etc. They range in height from 16 to 18 hands and weigh from 

 1200 to 1900 pounds and upwards. 



(Publications on Mules Quoted From and Consulted. Agrl. 

 Dep. Bu. An. Ind. 8th & 9th Annual Repts., 1891 & 1892 ; Fla. B. 

 72; 111. B. 122; La. B. 122; Tenn. Vol. XVIII. No. 3; Agr. Dep. Bu. 

 An. Ind. Circ. 124). 



Pulse, Temperature and Respiration of Domestic Animals. 



(Y. R. 1900.) 



HORSE AND MULE RAISING. 



In the South. With the development of agriculture in the 

 South and the discussion of the best methods to follow and the best 

 policies to adopt a few subjects have received more attention from 

 public speakers and writers than the production in that section of 

 the animals needed for work purposes and meat production. The 

 idea is not only that the South should supply its own demand for 

 these animals, but that southern farmers should feed as far as pos- 

 sible the enormous amount of cotton-seed meal and cake which is 

 now shipped out, and thus replace commercial fertilizers to a consid- 

 erable extent and keep up fertility with barnyard manure. Southern 

 farm methods now in vogue have been criticised by outsiders, but 

 none have been more severe than the leaders in agricultural progress 

 in the South who are southern bred and born. 



It certainly seems anomalous to contemplate a vast section of 

 our country spending millions annually for horses and mules, for 

 beef and pork, and for commercial fertilizers, and selling hundreds 

 of millions of dollars worth of fertility as cotton-seed meal and cake, 

 when we realize that the condition of soil and climate generally 

 throughout the South are excellent for animal production. This 

 condition is still more surprising when we know that, properly fed, 

 cotton-seed meal is probably the most valuable protein-bearing feed 

 the country produces, and that its fertilizing value after having gone 

 through an animal's body is almost as great as its feed value. It is 

 also more than passing strange that a southern farmer will buy hay 

 shipped from the West at from $15 to $23 per ton when his own land 

 will often yield more hay per acre than the land where the western 

 hay was produced and of as good a quality. 



Inadequacy of Local Supply of Horses and Mules. According 

 to figures of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture there were 83,026 horses in South Carolina on January 1, 1907. 

 These horses had a total farm valuation of $10,437,182, an average 



