THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
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Southern Farmers Advised
Against Selling Off Their
Cows.
The attention of bureau em
ployees in the South, especially
those engaged in tick eradica
tion, is invited to the following
article which has been issued by
the department to the newspa
pers. It is desired that the in
formation and advice contained
in this statement be disseminat
ed as widely as possible among
southern farmers. Copies in
separate form have been or will
be sent to inspectors in charge
in the South for distribution,
and extra copies may be obtain
ed on application to the bureau.
Copies should be given to the
local newspapers, in case these
papers have not already receiv
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Bureau employees should take
occasion in the course of their
work to impress upon the south
ern farmers the importance of
keeping their cows.
During the past 12 months
cattle buyers have been active
in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia and Florida pur
chasing cattle to be shipped to
the middle western markets as
either canners or stockers. The
price paid for canners during
this period have been so high
that thousands of cows and heif
ers have gone to the shambles
which should have been retain
ed on the farms for breeding
nurposes. This is especially no
ticeable when the receipts of
southern cattle at the St. Louis
market for the last 12 months
are compared with those for any
previous period of similar
length. The receipts of Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana
cattle at that market have al
most doubled during this period.
Since the 1st of February
buyers from the farms and
ranches of the West have been
scouring the Gulf States in the
search of breeding stock. A
few* years ago, this class of cat
tle would have been scorned by
the western ranchman as breed
ing stock, but with the shorage
of cow's for breeding purposes
the ranchers are glad to get
these cheap cows, to which they
will breed good beef bulls. The
half-breeds resulting from this
mating make fairly desirable
beef animals.
Several thousand cattle have
already been sent from these
States to Texas, Oklahoma, and
Kan sas, and some of them are
said to have been shipped as far
as Montana.
Recently there were perhaps
more cattle unloaded at one
time in Birmingham, Ala., for
feed, water, and rest while en
route to the western ranges
than have ever been seen in that
place before in one day. Geor
gia and Florida are sending out
thousands of these native south
ern cattle at the present time at
prices arnging from $15 to $23
a head for mature animals. A
shipment of 40 carloads of cat tie
was recently made from Osceola
County, Fla., in one day. They
were shipped to Kansas via Ok
lahoma City. The cattle were
dipped in arsenical solution be
fore loading to free them of
ticks, and were to be dipped
again on arrival at Oklahoma
City before going above the
Federal quarantine line.
Some people of the South
xem glad that these cattle are
’>» mg shippd out. as the number
of scrub cattle is being reduc
0
ed, and the South will get better
cattle as a result. They do no
look far enough ahead, however,
or they would see that if the
shortage of cattle is such as to
cause buyers to come from the
far West to buy these scrub cat
tle for breeding purposes the
chances of southern farmers re
filling their pastures with good
cattle are, indeed, small; for,
where are these good breeding
cattle to come from at a reason- j
able price? The best and most,
profitable way of getting good
cattle throughout the South is
to breed up the native cattle by
the use of pure-bred bulls and
by castrating all scrub bulls at
an early age.
The South is especially adapt
ed to raising cattle because of
the long grazing season; the
enormous areas of cheap land,:
much of w’hich is now lying idle;
the great variety of pasture j
grasses and legumes, which
grow luxuriantly on all soils;
and because of the mild winters.
If the western ranchman can
afford to pay southern farmers
good prices for cows, pay the
high freight rates to the West,
stand the losses which naturally
occur during shipping thin cat
tle such long distances, also bear
the losses due to a change of cli
malic conditions, and then make
money on them, why cannot the
southern farmer, who already
owns the cattle, as well as the
grazing lands, and who needs
manure upon the soils, keep this
stock on the farm and secure the
increased profits? He can if he
will free his cattle of ticks, in
crease the efficiency of his pas
tures by planting mixtures of
lespedeza, bur clover, white clo
ver, or perhaps melilotus, alsike
clover and redtop over his pas
ture lands, and by raising more
hays and forage crops for win
tering his stock and finishing
them for market. The surplus
cattle can then be fattened by
feeding cottonseed cake on
i grass, grazing fields of velvet
beans, while feeding some con
centrate, or they can be finished
in the dry lot during the winter
months. For winter feeding no
I rougage has proven more valu
able than silage, as the addition
t of it to a feeding ration invaria
l bly increases the size of the dai
• ly gains and reduces the cost of
them, thereby making greater
profits. The quality and the
quantity-of silage which can be
produced on some of these cheap
lands can not be surpassed by
the high-priced lands of the com
belt, whereas the cost of produc
ing it is far less because of the
cheap labor.
The farmers of the South are
therefore urged to discontinue
this wholesale shipping of their
female cattle to other states, to
free the pastures of the cattle
tick, and to increase their num
bers and quality of their cattle
by t ho use of pure-bred bJbf
bulls. The progeny will not only
grow off faster and make larger
and bqtter cattle, but will be far
more profitable to raise and to
feed than are the natives. The
soils will be increased in fertil
ity, and manure, which gives
such profitable returns when ap
plied to the cotton crop, will put
vegetable matter into the soil,
thus reducing the amount of
commercial fertilizer necessary
and increasing the availability
of this material.
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Remarkable Popular Iflnormnee.
Some one has remarked that d
the height of Napoleon's fame there
were men In tbe back alleys of Part*
who bad never beard his name. Tbla
lUustratlon of popular lgnoranoe was
recalled by a Judge who was examin
ing candidates for citizenship In New
Tork city recently. He asked one of
these prospective citizens, "Who Is
the bead of your native country?" j
"Tbs king.” "Who becomes the head
when he dies?" "His son.” “And
who is the head of this country?"
“The president” “And who would
become the h#ad If he died?” “HU
ton.” And yfc, as the Judge remark
ed. all these men know enough tc
warn their dally bread—tbe rest Is s
butter of w/aooling
Government Work Against Hog ]
Cholera.
Under a special appropriation
of $75,000 made by Congress
“for demonstrating the best
method of preventing and eradi
cating hog cholera,’ the Bureau
of Animal Industry has under- j
taken practical experiments in
co. ibating the disease. The ap-^
propriation becomes available
July 1, and work will be begun
first in Dallas county, Iowa, and
will be taken up later in Indiana
and one or two other states. In ,
Iowra the work will be done in
co-operation with the State Vet
eranian and the Iowa State Col- i
lege. 1
A few years ago the bureau,
after years of experimentation,
developed a serum which has
been demonstrated by repeated
tests to be very effective in pre
venting hog cholera. In many
states thi3 serum has been pre
pared and distributed to farm
ers with the result that large
sums of money have been saved
to the farmers, but thus far no
systematic effort has been made
to eradicate hog cholera. In the j
work which is now begun the
control and eradication of the
disease will be the main object,
the serum being used in connec
tion with the necessary quaran
tine and educational measures.
In the work in Dallas county,
rpnrp.<pntfitives of the
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state college and of the bureau
will make a survey of the coun
ty, estimating as closely as pos
sible the losses from hog chole
ra during previous years, and se
curing the names and addresses
of hog owners. Through lectures
and demonstrations at farmers’
meetings and by personal in
terviews they will also explain
to the farmers the object and na
ture of the work.
The State Veterinarian will
issue and enforce such restric
tive regulations as may be
deemed necessary, after con
ference with Federal officials, to
prevent the spread of the dis
ease. The bureau will prepare
and furnish the serum and will
undertake to control each out
break of hog cholera existing in
the county at the time the work
begins, and also subsequent out
1 breaks as. may arise during the
year. The serum treatment is
preventive rather than curative,
and will be administered to Hogs
on infected farms and on neigh
boring farms with a view to
checking and preventing the
spread of the infection.
Hog cholera has for many
years been a scourge of the hog
raising industry, causing heav
ier direct loss than any other an
animal disease in this country.
The losses tor last year are es
timated at $60,000,000. In the
face of a short supply and high
prices of meat it is becoming
imperative that something
should be done to check the rav
ages of the disease. Armed with
an effective preventive treat
ment. the Department of Agri
culture hopes by means of these
experiments to demonstrate a
method which can later be ap
plied on a large scale through
out the infected regions, so as
to control and eventually to e
radicate hog cholera and thus
stop the heavy losses and help
to increase the country’s meat ,
t
supply.
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Weat along the
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