The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-29
Profits of Grass and Improved
Stock,


publish this week, and commend it
to the consideration of every think
ing farmer.
In ma king our selections for this
department Of the GAZETTE we have
sought the practical views of the sue
cessful farmers of the present time
to lay before our readers, and in them
we have found great and increas-
ing tendency to abandon all crops
exhaustive to the soil aud expensive
and laborious TO cultivate, and a de-
cided inclination to cultivate more
grass and Craze more stock. The
wisdom of this policy is obvious to
all intelligent and thinking men and
this being prominently a grass
growing country, and our proximity
to the leading stock and hay mark
cts, we cannot fail to see the good
sense and plain practical truths in
the following article, and profit by
their adoption:
Trade in blooded stock has been
less lively in this locality during the
past week than at any period during
the season. Sill l have a few
transactions to record. A. II. DAWN
port. of Lexington. sold to Messrs,
/. 7. & r. M. Fisher, of Danyille.
an imported Southdown buck for
5000. This buck has been greatly
admired by the sheep men of Fay
cite, and although have not seen
him, yet my knowledge of the judg-
ment of the purchasers warrants me
in CHASING him as a most valuable
animal. Robert Cunningham, Of
Bourbon, sold fine buck lamb to a
gentleman of Nicholas. at fair
price. Col. Cicero Coleman, of Fay
cite, sold to q neighbor a buck lamb
out of native Cotswold eve, for
$50. This lamb was by imported
British Sovereign, the buck that
Coleman, Spur & McConathy pur-
chased in June, 1876, for three hun
dre6 and fifty dollars. This makes
four of his buck lambs sold that you
have published, and only three more
sold at same average price would
pay back the cost of the buck. So
it always pays to purchase the very
best, even at prices far above ordina-
~. An old saying and a true one
is, that ''there is always room at the
top" This holds true in stock as
we'll as in professions and trades.
When men start out to raise improv-
ed stock they should endeavor to
keep none but the best. and the bet
ter they can make them the greater
their profit and the greater certain
ty of success.
Old Clark comes to the front again
in a mammoth two-year old grade
steer. Weighing nineteen hundred and
fUe, and ]. have been told that the
old champion beef-raiser, Uncle jim
Bush, of Clark, has a two-year old
that beats this by SeUentyJtOe pounds.
When two-year olds border on ton,
perfection in early maturity is about
reached. Would that had the
power to convince the farmers of
Tennessee of the great benefits that
would accrue to them and to their
State by handling Short-horn cattle
Time and again arguments of the
most convincing kind have appeared
both in your editorial and correspon-
dents column, showing the paying
of Shorthorns for beef,
and could your farmers be made to
realize the difference in demand and
profit in favor of your grade stock
cattle sold here almost every month,
they would soon stop breeding the
little, horney-headed scallowags that
are almost given away, say at about
two cents per pound or fifteen dol
lars per head, and send us more of
the Shorthorn grades that sell for
four and a half cents or forty-five |
dollars per head, and are eagerly |
for at those prices. The
cost OF raising and feeding of the
former equals that of the latter
while the profits on the latter are
from twenty-five to thirty dollars
more per head. The advice l
would press home upon Tennessee
cattle-breeders would be to put
down their lands in grass, Danish
cotton and wheat culture from their
farms. Leave the former to the
State, farther South, where near
three times the quantity per acre
can be raised. and the latter to the
Northern States, where more than
double the yield can be secured, and
profit by the experience of Kentucky
that grass pays better for her and |
your climate than any other crop.
Then improve your horses. herds.
hogs and fiocks and retain them an
til fully developed for market. By |
this system you constantly enrich |
your lands and increase your wealth
you take your necks out from I'M
der. TIE heels Of monopolists. Now
as it is. to me. it seems that you are