SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE NEEDS FARM ANIMALS 51 



and keep in good condition without receiving a 

 single pound of feed other than he is able to gather 

 for himself. This condition should be taken ad- 

 vantage of, and the millions of dollars now paid to 

 northern farmers and stock raisers every year for 

 animals with which to draw the plows in the south- 

 ern fields, should be kept in the South where it 

 belongs. Three million dollars a year for South 

 Carolina alone represent the amount paid to 

 northern farmers for work animals. The South 

 should produce its own work animals, not only in 

 order to keep these vast sums of money at home, 

 but because they can produce animals which are 

 suited by nature to southern conditions, while it 

 takes from one to three years for northern-grown 

 animals to become accustomed to the climate and 

 to reach their greatest degree of efficiency. An- 

 other reason, and not the least of them, is that the 

 estimated value of the manure produced annually 

 by each horse or mule amounts to no less than $28, 

 gauged by the market prices of commercial fer- 

 tilizers. Southern soil needs this material. 



The field for the growing of hogs in the South is 

 unlimited. The old razor-back type which has been 

 synonymous for southern live stock for generations, 

 was developed from hogs which escaped from their 

 owners and became half wild in the southern 

 woods, subsisting upon nuts and other foods 

 which they were able to find in the woods 

 and swamps. They increased tremendously in num- 

 ber without any care or attention, and in the face of 

 all the obstacles which they would be likely to en- 

 counter in wild life. The same conditions which 

 permitted this class of animals to thrive so mightily 

 are equally favorable for the breeding and growth 

 of a type of hogs better suited to modern condi- 



