The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-02-04
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. Il. Scott who organized first Baby
Beef club Coleman, Tex, says Nation
al Corn Exposition, Dallas, Tex, Feb.
lO-2i, Will benefit stockmen OF tho
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 cattle
raisers to send some Of the Baby Beef
club boys to Washington, d. c., on
SlSht seeing tour. maintains that
one-Crop country with only its own
little ideas, will never become great.
Farmers and stOCkmen," 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-
hlbitS to this gathering. The graund
round up is going to be worth our close
attention and study.
"ou account of the shortage of beef"
he advises, the farmer should get in
tcrcsted in stock raising and the stock
raiser who feeds must he interested in
the cheapest way of producing the best
feed"
Mr. Scott quotes Prof. Beresford,
beef specialist of Iowa, who has made
study of beef on the farm:
"TWcnty-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 1918 was $l610 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 ncighborhood. They not only
made more money on the cattle, but
grew bigger ana better crops from the
fertilization of the land with the ma
nurc 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 toe
many Of the old stockmen do not vet
realize their relation to, and depend
enCe on, agriculture and the aEriCul
turist Conditions are changing 81
that our coming men will have to be
farmers as well as stockmon, 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 the
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.
I'VE 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 al, 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
need
Our bows are ready for the right
kind Of teaching to make them more
efficient Last year, when our Baby
Beef club was organized ii was a dry
year. and We had only eleven head OF
baby beef exhibited from the whole
state This year, of the thirty entries
for prizes, twenty came fro m Coleman
and they sold on an aVelage for 9ia
cents a pound, which shows the in
creased interest OF the boys in raising
baby beef
ITO have the very test products Of
the land from the whole United States
brought To Texas as in this Corn FIX
position gives an opportunity for
learning which no atOckman or farmer
or his boy should miss