Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-28
cuItIvatinu the Southern Trade.

Editorial from The Breeders Gazette.
THAT the southern field white unto the
harvest should be longer neglected by the
breeders of beef cattle would seem thor
oughly out of consonance with the lnteln-
sence and enterprise that now direct the
movement for the spread Of improving
blood. We have pushed the conquering
columns of pedigreed blood far out into
the western ranges. We look with covet-
Gus eve on the South American trade and
bewaiI the restrictions that have blighted
our hopes, and yet for third OF cen
fury we have neglected field that lies
only across an imaginary line. There
has been plenty of talk about developing
the beef cattle industry in the south, but
very little action. Faf-seeing breeders
have long unprecedented the situation the
oretically, but no leader has arisen The
mountain has been sinvited to come to
Mahomet The mountain is practically
immovable. The figurative Mahomet like
the actual Mahomet the Prophet, should
after all these years be willing to go TO
the mountain. Little driblets of streams
of improving blood have been started to-
ward the south where mighty rivers
should have rolled. With zeal kindled to
a blaze Of determination enterprising
southern men-venturesome is perhaps
the better word-have invested small and
large sums in pedigreed cattle and have
attempted a start We all know the
story. 1t is told again in simple fashion
by a correspondent in this issue. Their
investment has been largely burned up BY
the fever. That spectral Nemesis or
southern cattle Improvement stalks ever
in the path.
do our experiment stations sigh for
farther worlds to conquer? How many
of them have addressed themselves to the
solution Of this problem which once
solved would redeem the south? Two sta
tions out of the many interested have
worked at it and to their everlasting
credit be it said have achieved a crafty
ing measure of success. Vaccination is
now prophylactic to such degree that
IL is reasonable and economical to prac-
tice il on all cattle that are to be shipped
south of the deadly fever line. Hence
pertinent enough is our correspondent
suggestion that If auction sales are 70 pc
inaugurated in the south by breed assoc
Citations the cattle offered should be rem
dered frfmune to the fever. If cattle or
that kind can be drafted we imagine that
there will be no need Of cataloguing the
sort of bulls that Colonel Woods wants
included in the discarded one-third; the
better class will bring fair prices. Eduea-
ton is not the prime thing needed In the
south; money to project the Improvement
can be commanded. The imperative, the
essential factor, is a guarantee against
loss by the destructive fever. Given TINS
guarantee we believe that the enterpris-
ing agricultural leaders, IN the south
would create a market that would absorb
quickly the now rapidly diminishing sur
plus of our pure-bred beef herds. Espe-
cialIy would the bulls be cleaned out.
For be il understood that cotton SEED
and canebreaks, along with the native
grasses Of the south, will discount Wnony
the free range in cattle-breedlng ana
feeding. The death-dealing blizzard blows
not over the sunny south Loss Is MI. All
the feed in the winter time does not go
merely to sustenance. AS a matter OF
fact the advantages offered by some sec
tions of the south for the breeding and
feeding of beef cattle are little less than
marvellous, and the only wonder Is that
effort has not long since been made TO de-
velop this industry there. But the south
wants the assurance of value received
for its investments. This burnt cniid
breads the fire. offer catee inoculated
against the fever and It will buy.
'sThis IS a Macedonian cry that comes
from the south. In helping those below
the line northern breeders viii help them
selves. Is not the time now ripe.
One years care of cattle viii exterml-
nate cattle ticks, the only carriers OF cattle
fever. This is the proper method OF pro-
eedure for the south. The truly economic
way, vaccination, is a preventive, out the
tick is then left with us TO necesstate
the raising of calves on uck-lnleseeu pas
lures. II calves be raised about barns
and first turned to pasture over year
old they viii die as readily after being
horn south as cattle born north or the
ST. Lawrence river in Canada.
1t is not the place of birth that produces
immunity in some southern raised cattle
Those that are immune have been made
so by the introduction into the animal
while young of the true fever germ. THIS
is done by the cattle tick, which never
has vet lived in sufficient numbers over
winter about my barns to inject my
calves and render them immune make
them immune in one Of two ways Usual
lv / nut them on low, moist tick-infested
ground to Craze and gather ticks on their
bodies while very young. They thus take
nm few enough ticks to allow the young
animals to develop a resistency that ola
ones are not capable Of. Sometimes L take
the blood from the jugular vein OF COW
covered with ticks and inject this under
the loose skin Of the neck OF the anilnais
which desire to make immunes OF.
This produces genuine fever. but has
not so far resulted in a single fatal case
with me Both methods are better tnan
dead cows, but the determination OF the
tick itself is in the line OF greatest oene-
fit. D.