The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-12-22
GROWN STOCK FOOD
oaitsl<iii, Of Mcintosh Utter. =
srsphsey and Tells His Ex-

ropnoey auo teue MS EX-
perisnce.
question Of feed for stock I'm
is OF vastly more consequence
S. generally thought. have Of
+ Ished that q correct statement
be given showing the amount of
fuf that was shipped into the
- In year. / believe a good part
4hfs expense could and should be
"a. or the money paid to Florida
oWers. There are more people in
seted in feed for horses and mules
~ any other class of stock, and it
Ems strange to me that Western
~ is used SO extensively when Flor
= makes a product superior to a
sSsat part of the hay that is shipped
Ito the State. Good Florida hay.
1nde of a mixture of crabgrass.
ckspur grass and beggarweed, can
bought in the State at $12 to SIS
n ton: yet the turpentine man and
Ike sawmill man will pay SIS to $40
80 prairie grass or inferior timothy
Father OF which are as good as good
70rida hay. There SENS to be
Lar on the part of a good many that
Ire cockspur will injure the horses.
I'll have fed Florida hay exclusively for
&c past ten years, and 1 find my
eorses and mules will pick out the
5Neads of cockspur and eat that part
"a the hay first AS yet 1 have seen
no horse or mule injured. 1 find a
Nv people that recognize the value
sof homegrown hay. Major w. R.
3lfhomas, of Gainesville has been using
81 for years, and no Iveryman in the
state has better teams. I also find
III. J. NJ. Meffert, of Ocala, who does
"A extensive sawmill business, and
also manufactures lime, using good
many teams, giving them hard work.
sHe is well satisfied with Florida hay,
and I am surprised that others do
not want to save the "a to Sc per ton
:on hay.
Corn makes good crop in Flori-
n I say makes" advisedly, as the
rank and file of the farmers do but
Rtttle toward helping make the corn
arop: the cultivation it gets is Incl
;1sntal. I believe the question of stock
leeds win have more attention in a
few years, as there is a growing dis
;position to make better beef, better
1og. and better sheep. I feel that the
cuming Tampa fair will be revela-
ZION to a great many F1oridians; many
and better home. or F1Orida-grewn
stock will be there than is thought
~ good many to be in the State.
sThere is, in my opinion, no trouble
81 making good beef in Florida. We
bave good grass; the velvet bean.
cowpea and peanut all furnish a feed
very rich in protein, and we can fat
s4An our stock with less carbonaceous
reed than must be used in the North,
- we do,'t We to use any Of our
ICED ~ f i u furnish animal heat.
rs There is sol.e trouble about harvest
:3ne some of our crops during rainy
season such as we had last summer,
hut the silo can be utilized here as
1nterfere materially with that. 1 hope
IN a few years to be able to get
bunch of Florida calves with two
xFoases of good beef blood in them.
want to feed them and prove to
myself, as well as others, that 1 am
f1ght, or wrong, in my estimate OF a
sod Florida steer and F1orida-grown
I'D fear 1t will take a demOnstra-
ten Of this kind to convince some of
o1H people that we have a good BUSH
snAss lying dormant The three years
that / have been breeding to. short
Adrn bulls has demonstrated to me
tkat any one with good pasture can
raise good calves. and the question OF
ted is of but little consequence until
xattening time comes. My three-Quar-
ter bred calves will compare favor
abb with the average grade In the
sNoFth- I expect to have some at Tam
- to show for themselves. Truly
y1urs--S. H. Gaitskin in Florida Sun.
IS<ajor Herbert to- be Congratulated.
Major Sidney Herbert, the military
writer of the Savannah Morning News
and one Of the most impartial writ
eGs whose letters We have ever had
tho pleasure of reading, is to be con-
STIMULATED upon having passed the