The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
BREEDING AND FEEDING BEEF n
CATTLE NORTH CARM INA
Work of the North Carolina Association Described The
Factors of Production, Transporting and Marketing
Organized-This State Can Raise Good Cattle
Ky Ron H.

81 Il -
@@~.,,lioa with cheaper beef if things
uy,rk out his way.
ne Is the associate chlef OF the ami
industry division of the eXperi-l
"a,taI work, and in addition to being
" ,ssociate chief in experimental
ii ne is "A full-blooded chief in
h,t,hine up some way TO extend the
nh industry Of North Carolina.
ms NJ his hobbies is feeding beef cat
,s IN various sections of the State, and
fr,m his hobby has grown the North
T,rohna Beef Breeders and Feeders
Association. |
a,,.,and into three parts like Gaul in
T,esar's day. but that division is pure
,rbitrary. the discrimination being |
III, low ground, Piedmont, and noun
,at,s curtis will tell you %truthfully
,b.t North Carolina is really divided
mi, two parts-the country Of the
wet where cattle are bred and the
.,nntry Of the east where cattle are
led The third part Is composed Of
virginia and Pennsylvania, a meddle-
s,me territory that comes down here
+, COAX away cattle that should go
from the first part of the State to the
second part.
western North Carolina is endew-
"a H., nature with the natural pOSSi-
hiHtrs necessary for raising cattle.
There are grazing water: range and
room The business of raising cattle
il rather II large one. and many cattle
come out Of the mountains to help
supply the hungry tables of the Ceun-
tr, north and east.
Running all the way down the
mountain range from Allegheny to
cherokee is good cattle country, and
tha world is finding it out. Feeders
from Virginia and Pennsylvania are
constantly in touch with the noun
tain counties. Many carload Sof cat
a.. are sent out to the railroads and
the northern cities, and the prospects
are that the business will increase ma
trrially. for the organization of the
Reef Association has already begun to
introduce system into the mountains,
and to plan for handling the business
in a business way.
For some time spasmodiC efforts
hay" been making to buy the range
cattle of the mountain counties and
bring them in the fall down to the
lower counties to be fed through the
winter to turp off to market in the
spring 1T was not until a couple OF
years ago, that the movement now
am foot took tangible shape under the
suggestion of X. S. Curtis.
iISnging Two Sections Together.
Mr.. Curtis in his work of the ami
NAL industry division of the expert
y 0ldltDn StlS oil oNC III q
Hc falls in with the men of the noun
tam who raise cattle and who want q
market. and with the feeders Of the
lna lands who want cattle, and ne
saw the want OF d better acquaintance
with each other and OF a more SyS
t"mltic method Of handling the cattle
from the farm to h block. So ht
fortified himself with information IL
hi, trips in the mountains, and carnt
down one day with prices on cattle
in large punches. and he brought tina
Information and those prices to pros
peCtive eeders. The feeders CON
tract"d for forty or fifty cars of tn
cattle Curtis found and at the price
he found in big lots. and a movement
81 buyers TO head towar'
Ga" mountains.
Haywood county is the favored spo
Tot buyer of the eastern part of tn
state where winter feeding is mos
likely to develop, and to HaywOo,
county the buyers proceeded. Their
thry found the traffic in the hands q
two or three local factors. men VIII
through a wide acquaintance all owe
Tue mountains know who has cattl
I" sell. and what the quality and pric
viii be.
The business OF buying cattle fe
feeders IL a romantic Occupation
llr>t vice president of the Cattle As
Sp'lation IL L. L.. Gwyn, of Cantor
ne Is a farmer. on "A magnificent; plac
IN the bottoms Of the Pigeon rive
WIN fertile lands edged in by tn
mountains that surround hin
through the fall he gathers cattl
from his neighbors for miles ar0un
me country and assemblies them 4
III" IlSeon river farm. Marshall, o
me French Broad. and Clyde. an tf
murphy branch. are two of the Frir
''pal shipping point for meuntai1
''l'' bound down into the low
country
VIZ Curtis saw II possibilities
we leeding industry. but he also Sa
S'hi' difficulties. So before the tirg
''' gone very far. a few eff the leat
ihI men In the feeding and raisiT
ih"N were brought together. and o.
=! MA came the North Carolina BE
.'rraers and Feeders Associate
T'n headquarters in Raleigh, X.
"FpN, Jackson Springs, president, M
y. IsrnNn cloxlanA w yIyva1