The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-08

Cattle in the South.
The Times Democrat has an able arti-
Gle in its trade edition on this very i'm
portant subject. We will pass over that
portion OF the article in which the adj
! vantages of Southern breeding over
Western are clearly pointed out, and
come at once to some of the results that
must inevitably follow the introduction
and raising of improved breeds of cattle
in the the South, and especially Florida.
The Times Democrat says:
Let us now consider more specifically
the effects attaching To either class of
cattle-the particular results from breed
ing beef cattle and dairy cattle. The
breeding of registered beef cattle will
revolutioniZe the Industries of certain
areas. This Is certain to enure, ere long,
to much of Texas. There, for years, the
plan has been To raise cattle rather than
beef. The young have been sold To the
West. This section has found in this
business fine opportunity To use its
immense stores of corn ami prairie Das-
lures. The owners ot blue grass pastures
In Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio and
elsewhere have turned the young Texas
cattle into their fields and made beef of
them. But, as Texas shall grade up her
beef cattle and go into cultivated grasses,
she Will keep these cattle to maturity.
She will raise them, and kill some and
ship others. Chicago, st. Louis, Gin
cInnati, indianapolis and other large
cities Will, some day, receive great mum
bers of highly bred, fat cattle, tit To Kill.
The West will greatly feel this in the
competition it will bring. She can not
compete with Texas. And Eastern Mis-
sissippi and Western Alabama will Ice in
the field, too. Their fat shorthorns will
be ready for the market IN early spring
before the Western cattle. Refrigerated
beef will be common in Texas and can
neries will spring up. The beef canneries
of the West lind in Texas cattle now "a
good enough article for their use. The
choicer cuts can Ice sold in the markets
of the cities where the canneries are 10
Gated. But as Texas grades up, her cat
tie will yield a still larger per cent. al
fine cuts, and she will refrigerate these,
send them tn Europe and the Western
cities, and can the balance. And other
parts of the South will be in the same
category. The proximity of the South
To the sea will, some DAY, count in af-
fording opportunities for shipment of
live cattle to Europe.
As the business of beef making pro
crosses South, corn making will enSue AZ
a correlative. This result will Ice meas
urably, as a matter of course, to harden
and =" ripen" steers. Hay making will
also follow beefmak:ng. AS hog-raising
at the West is an appendage of beef
making Uhe corn dropped by the cattle
will he eaten by the hogs, SO it will Ice
in the South. And hogs can get clover
and grass much longer South than West,
and can he raised far more cheaply.
As a consequence of hog rising, pork
packing and lard making in the South
will spring up. In these the West will
find her hest markct-the SOUTHEAST Ia
her by the expansion of these industries.
Glue factories, comb factories and
phosphate factories will be neccs-
sity, almost, of the changed condition of
affairs.
New methods of farm life will come
in; fenced fields, devoted in part To
pastures, the droppings of the cattle, the
clovering of the land, will fertilize and
enrich the soil. Cotton seed, so won
dcrful in its fattening qualities, will
become much larger ingredient in feed,
and it will pass through the animal into
the soil.
And, ranch life done, the brand disap
pearing, hides will enhance in value, and
this will add n factor to coax down tan
neries and manufactures into which
leather enters largely.
lt passes without saying that with
raising thoroughbred cattle will come
juicier and more nutritious steaks,
Refrigerated beef will not have Ia bs
brought South from Chicago and New
York, as il now done in Florida and
thousands of iPvalids will come South
to spend the winters III choice climates,
who now remain away and die beraus"
they cant stand the - bull beef" of the
South. And who shall compute th,.
millions missed 10y the South through tlc
al sence of invalid millionaires. How
much invali,ls bring let the sterile soils
of Florida tell. Wise Florida, that gives,
in the hotels of smallest towns, Fulton
Market beef aud toothsome viands Ia
inVaiids.