The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-01-16
WILL Be OF BENEFIT
TO TEXAS STOCKMEN
Says J. Boog-Scott, Who Was
Organizer OF
FIRST BABY BEEF CLUBS.
Latter Says the National Corn Exposi-
ton, to Be Held at Dallas Feb. TO-
"a, Will Be Of Great Value to Live
stock Farmers.

j. u. Scott, who organized first Baby
Beef club, Coleman, Tex says Nation
al Corn Exposition, Dallas. Tex, Feb.
1924 will benefit stockmen OF the
state.
Mr.. J. Boog- Scott. well known breed
Or of fine stock, who organized the first
Baby Beef club in Texas and later
raised the money among the cattls
raisers to send some OF the Baby Beef
club boys to Washington, D. c., on a
sight seeing tour, maintains that
One-crOp country with only it's own
little ideas will never become great
Farmers and stOCkmcn," he urges,
SHOULD get together at a great educa-
tiOnal institution, like the sixth Ma
tional Corn Exposition, coming to Dali
las in February 1914, and learn more
about diversified farming and better
stock breeding as practiced in other
states which will bring their best ex-
hibits to this gathering. The graund
roundup is going to be worth our close
attention and study.
ION account of the shortage of beef"
he advises "the farmer should get in
terested in stock raising and the stock
raiser who feeds must be interested in
the cheapest way of producing the best
feed"
Mr.. Scott quotes Prof. Beresford.
beef specialist Of Iowa, who has made
q study of beef on the farm:
"Twenty-four farms where baby beef
was being grown, showed an average
profit of 81 per head for beef after the
keep of the COW and calf was charged
at regular market prices. The average
profit in 1913 was $1610 per head. The
average beef farmer showed an increase
of % per cent crop gain per acre over
the best exclusively grain farmers in
the same neighborhood. They not only
made more money on the cattle, but
grew bigger and better crops from the
fertilization of the land with the ma
nure furnished by the stock"
AS the average cotton farmer knows
all too little about the raising OF live
stock its value to his farm, so too
many of the old stockmen do not yet
realize their relation to. and depend
ence on, agriculture and the agricul'
turist. Conditions are changing 50
| that our coming men will have to be
| farmers as well as stOckmen. and so
| should be educated in farming as well
as stock raising.
"All school teachers thinks Mr..
| Scott, who are to instruct children
| OF farmers should attend this National
| Institute of Farming to be held at tho
! Fair grounds in Dallas. They should
! learn all the newest facts in scientific
| farming and how to present them In
an attractive and interesting way to
their pupils, as agriculture Is now be-
! ing taught in the best of our country
! schools.
1--WE don't need Latin and French In
the schools of Texas half as much as
we need to have the children trained
to be intelligent, independent, content
ed producers, tillers OF the soil from
! which all our wealth must come. We
| need in this country more trained
| farmers and fewer doctor and law
yers. The more real farmers we have
the fewer doctors and lawyers we Will
I need.
"Our boys are ready for the right
| kind of teaching to make them more
! efficient. Last year when our Baby
| Beef club was organized it was dry
year and we had only eleven head ot
, baby beef exhibited from the whole
state This year, of the thirty entries
| for prizes, twenty came frc m Coleman
and they sold on an aveIage for ga
cents pound. which shows the in
creased interest OF the boys in raising
baby beef
"'To have the very Eest products OF
| the land from the whole United states
brought to Texas as in this Corn EN-
position gives an opportunity for
lcarninc which no ntoCFman or farmer
or his boy should miss.