Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-06-19
ARKANSAS SHOULD GROW LIVE STOCK John H. Page Points Out Great Opportunity for Big
 Profits. PRICES INCREASING Arkansas Has 2O,OOO,OOO Acres That Can Be Used for Livestock. With Population Steadily Increasing
 and POrdnctiOn Decreasing.
PRICES INCREASING

in 1913 there were 96, ,765, ,573. The number of cattle in the United States in 1907 was 72,534 ,000. The number in 1913 was 56,537,0O. The population is constantly increasing while the number of cattle to supply that popu- lation is constantly decreasing. The South only can change these figures. 1 Arkansas has a bud area of 33,616,- 900 acres, only S,076.254 acres of | which are improved farm land. In other words, there are at least 2O,OOO,- 900 acres of land in Arkansas that can be in part or entirely devoted to l live stock raising. Turned out fields, 1 the decrease in the number of cattle and hogs. the steady increase in popu- lation, and the wonderful adaptability 1 of Arkansas to the industry, call to 1 our minds very forcibly the import ance of live stock on a well-regulated Southern farm. Arkansas steers and Arkansas hogs have topped the market in St. Louis and Omaha a great smany times during the season, and yet so few have specialized on cattle and hogs. They will pay.
 Bring Good Prices.
 
 for the United States was $6,S6, and in 1900 it was $3.69. The price of the steer haa been advancing each year. With all these advantages added to the stock raising industry, yet the op- portunities have not decrease in Ar kansas. We have plenty of surplus land, plenty of water, plenty of grass and range, and land that will grow any kind of feed crop that is desir- 1 ed. Marketable cattle can be produc- ed in any section of Arkansas for from three to three and a half cents 1 per pound. About A per cent of the | land in Arkansas is under fence, but not near that amount is under cultiva- tion. All of the idle land should be givenl to live stock farming. The cost is litte
 l The opportunities for all kinds of live stock farming that we have in Arkansas 4ow can not be found in an- other state in the union. It is not nec- essary to slaughter the calves to make money out of live stock now. The number of calves decreased from l. 41S,961 in 1900 to S22,17O in 1910. The South in the future is the center of the live stock industry, and Arkansas is part of the South that is ideally adapted to it's new position.
 1 And another thing I would have you remember is, that the number of peo- pie is increasing every year, but that the number of acres of land is not in:- creasing. So my advice is to be slow to part with your land if it is good. If it is part good and part poor, raise live stock and live stock crops and build the poor land up. Live stock farming must be mastered in the South for the future. Why not Ar kansas? Live stock will pay.
 l There is absolutely no reason i'll as suming that live stock farming will not pay in Arkansas, when farmers in Iowa, Missouri, Indiana and Illinois have made a success of it on $10O per acre land, with short summers, long winters, ard a single crop season ana no natural forage and range, while in Arkansas we have only few weeks during each season that it is necessary tohouse the stock we can raise three or four crops season; have plenty of $10 land, and unlimited natural range. There are few obstacles to Arkansas live stock farming.
 The big question that will confront our live stock farmers is the question, What kind of stock shall l buy? Buy and raise the kind that will produce the most money in the shortest time. This will eliminate the scrub COW, the scrawny ill-bred bull, and the ] raZOrback hog
 In selecting cattle, do it with the idea of making money, and in doing this, you will consider the beef-mak- ing qualities and the butter-making qualities. The beef and butter ami nal is the animal you should buy. The butter strain of the Shorthorns and the butter strain of Holsteins have been found to be this "beef and but ter" animal. They are just about as good mlikers and produce marketable beef of good quality in a short length of time With feed and care, they, in my opinion, are the cattle for the average farmer. I would prefer the butter strain of the Shorthorns. Small cattle like the Jerseys and Guern' seys and similar breeds would be eli minated if this method were followed strictly. These are good milkers ant butter producers, just as the bee strains of the Herefords, Shorthorns and Holsteins are good beeves.
 Thoroughbreds Pay Best. Buy the real thoroughbred hogs. young thoroughbred SOW or boar while less than year of age, can bt bought so cheaply and produce SC quickly that every farmer can afford } to get start The Duroc-Jerseys ithe Berkshires and the Poland Chlna are all moneymakers. They groV quickly and are good foragers., The.
 produce a maximum amount of porl
 at from 10 to 12 months old, ant
 grow large.
 The first step to stock improvement : is to realize the need of it. We hay ; some good stock in different parts o