The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-02-07
FARMERS OF FLORIDA
SHOULD b Much Interested in the
Recent Meeting in Gainesville

lawrence, Kansas, before the Florida
state Farmers meeting at Gainesville
Vas the best we ever heard on cattle
aFnising. We will not attempt to quote
6lD language and data, for We took no
notes and simply write from memory
The colonel Is one Of the most noted
md extensive cattle raisers in this
fo6u6try. and said he had been in 1t
since q youth OF four years in old Vir-
slnia. He said that state had made
f0bacc0 It's one product in material
consideration, and the soil was worn
70 q FRAGILE, which 1t would take ma
sture generations to restore to vigor
Hence 1t was no cattle country. In
1856 ne. went to Missouri. then a new
btake with a rich soil and all the wild
s4osnge needed to raise cattle without
o6ort. care or experience. When they
rsneeded a fat beef. q farmer went to
tie woods. picked him out and killed
fhlm. but in time the state filled up and
Wild pastures became a thing Of the
= past. Then settlers went into Kansas.
He did In 1865 and the same condi-
FEVER the West But in Kansas. too.
~ the state became populated the
Xnatural grazing was killed and driven
ssout and farmers had to make prOvis-
E3ens for their cattle. sowing timothy,
blue grass and clover. They then began
{tto look around for blOOded stock to i'm
Rzeove their scrub stock. 1t was done
En,nn nd in, n
Eek thinking the Shorthorn was the an
kimal to create beef and Drawn. and the
& ihptory of cattle raising all over the
cOuntry, and especially I'm England,
& me home Of the ShOrthOrn. where they
Ehave demonstrated the best herds.
k$lroves beyond question they are the
Finest beef cattle on earth and later
EnaAd that other kinds existed and had
F4heir merits. but they were purely
f30cal and in evidence Of this claim
s6aJd every other strain came from a
3 Hereford bull and a ShOrthOrn cow. or
<zSlcee versa. He spoke Of four hundred
f<1nl1lion people across the water that
NEEDED our beef and would have it,
&ttcept that as the United States has
E1ootricted interchange of commodities
III legislation, the various nations af-
<e1D6ted legislated against us. The United
Estates shipped large quantities Of beef
20 these counties, yet much larger
6mounts could be disposed Of II 1t
>Wero not for these restrictions. Re-
ooprocity is what was needed. This
e6umtry II favored by nature for cat
10 raising and we only had two serious
1Gnmpetitors. Australia and the Argen-
<ih6 republic. He said he was conf
lat that the the present. rate of the
E0Wth Of population. no danger neet
~ feared for over production and that
- rood market at fair prices would
oNfinue to prevail. That the best
oood told its own story In product
Sna profit. What surprised him ir
ounlng South was to see no hay stacks
I'D no fodder barns. II the South.
lnhd % favored for cattle raising. In
10nded to utilize it's advantages. Il
t1oeaed blood and feed. Natures pas
Gx0s were all gone or going. True
- old system prevailed in Florida
nt tho inevitable was written on TIT
lnoOn, and 1t was only a question o
1lAo when blood and feed must talk
~ place Of "air and water" He GER
i1Hly deemed Florida a most favor
III state for this industry and it wa
1n0Qntng. He said the cattle raiser
&aro would In time ship their calves t.
- corn fields Of the West to fatten
&nQDw, Florida, cattle men, those tina
1ee nature take its course and accep
<4ho Increase be II great or small from
6five stock, found a market in Cuba
20 this would be short lived, for Cubs
- bountifuhy supplied by natur
I'm rich pastures and the cattle me-
Woro bringing in the best blood OF tn
for1d to Improve their herds and Ii
lnme poor beef could not find marke
eslde the Shorthorns. These me
SHAaeed to- be let alone. but this wa
o3S being circumscribed. He sal
Wss a mistaken notion to think tn
- packers Of the West did not wan
Merida to improve her cattle. The
)puld rejoice to see Florida filled wit
he best, for then they would brin
khAlr slaughter houses and packfn
Embellishments to Florida. as they hav
TO Texas. and some day the speake
AOped to see a line Of steamers plyin
between Jacksonville and Liverpool
fexporting Florida beef He was aske