The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-13
Beef Raising in the south.

This would be very profitable if our
stockmen and farmers would only intro
duce better blood-pure-bred bulls of the
representative beef breeds, to be used upon
native COWS with the purpose of grading
up the character of the native herds of the
country, writes e. Montgomery, of Mis-
sssippi. There are few of such pure-bred
bulls in the cotton states. To supply the
present deficiency and the coming demand
for such animals, our people must depend
mainly upon the north and west, states
above the fever belt: and this being true,
the purchaser will have to take the risk
of Texas or acclimation fever, this disease
proving fatal to two-thirds or three
fourths of the cattle introduced from the
northern states. There is no specific pre-
ventive and cure for this disease. When
one does succeed in getting a herd of ac-
| climated cattle, pure blood, of the popular
and distinctively beef breeds he will have
| good thing; his surplus stock ought to
| find ready sale at prices twice or more
greater than similar stock unacclimated.
! At all seasons of the year New Orleans
is flooded with scrub beef stock from Mis-
sissippi Alabama, Louisiana and West Ten
| nessee; at certain periods, very large num-
| bers of similar cattle from the same sec
| tions are sent to st. Louis and Chicago
! for a market. Sometimes one cattle buyer
will send forward at one time almost
enough stock to make up long train. The
| selling price of this trashy stock, as com
! pared to the average graded stock of the
west, is very low, but it is safe TO assert
| that the difference in the two contrasted
prices is fully warranted by the true dis
| parity of value in the two classes of beef.
For average pastures and conditions in
| the section of country named, as furnish
| ing this inferior stock, the larger breeds
of cattle like the Shorthorn, Hereford and
| Polled Angus which require rich and lux
! uriant pasturage or its equivalent an grain
! feed, would not seem well suited; the small
er and harder breeds like the Devon, Gal
| loway and Red Poll, which have in meas
ure already been tested here and proved so
| far satisfactory, would seem better adapt
ed to our needs and surroundings. our
! country possesses superior advantages for
profitable beef growing: Cheap lands and
the greatest variety of soils; a mild eli
| mate, doing away with the necessity OF
much shelter and stall feeding, with greer
grazing abundantly supplied for nine
months in the year and moderately for
three months; native grasses that are rich
in chemical value as stock food, both for
pasture and for hay; the easy practicable
ity of growing successfully and economic
ally many of the cultivated grasses, clOv-
| ers and forage plants; good local markets
excellent shipping facilities. All We need
to insure large financial profits in the beef
| growing business is a better class of cattle
and these can only be had on any extensive
scale by the process of grading up through
the use of good bulls on native female
stock In cotton seed cotton seed meal and
cotton seed hulls we have the cheapest and
best feeds in the world to fatten cattle fol-