The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-05-27


which annually kills more cattle in
the South than all other diseases COM
bined, an area Of 19s,S02 square miles
has been freed from the tick. Details
of this work against disease that Is
estimated to cost American farmers
$4O,O00,O00 year are printed In new
circular of the Department entitled
effects of Tick Eradication On The
Cattle Industry OF The South"
Now comes the question, what plan
is best for farmers in these redeemed
areas to improve their stock? The
following are some of the Depart
ment's suggestions in brief:
1. Get Bermuda or carpet grass
started on all pastures. Improve the
pastures further by sowing some les
pedeza and bur clover on the uplands,
and some .alsike clover, white clover,
and Paspalum diIatatum on the bottom
lands.
2. Grow more hay and other forage
on which to winter the stock; or, II =
farmer has as many as 80 or rs cat
tie, erect a silo.
8. Bring in good bulls of the beef
breeds to use for grading up the ma
tive cattle. Do not try to raise pure
breds to begin with.
4. II not able to buy bull for in
dividual use, form bull club, and let
each member buy stock in the bull and
place him on some central farm; or let
one man buy the bull and the others
obligate themselves to breed their
cows to that bull,
s. Form a community club or a
county livestock association, so that
members may exchange bulls every
two years in order to get the maximum
service from a bull without breeding
him to his offspring. The members of
a club should agree on what breed
they want to use and all get bulls of
the same breed, in order that the COM |
munity may develop a trade and make |
a reputation as growers of this breed.
6. If the bull is young, do not let |
him run with the cows, but keep him
In a separate pasture and give him |
some feed each day so as to keep him |
growing.
Z. Do not let young bull serve a |
COW but once. One service. is often
better than half dozen.
8. Heifers of the beef breeds
should not drop calves until they are
ut least 80 months of age, and should
be bred accordingly.
Breed the COWS SO as to calve during
February, March and April.
10. Castrate all male calves at an
early age, either before o. at weaving
time.
H. Wean the calves in the fall,
about the time the cows are taken |
from pasture. Give them plenty of
good bright hay, silage if available, |
and about pound Of cotton seed meal !
per day for the first month after TAX
ing them from the cows. After that
they can be wintered on roughages |
produced on the place, with little
concentrate. Cowpeas or lespedeza
hay is especially good for the calves,
although there is no better roughage
than silage.
IL. The breeding stock may be CIV
en- the run of the stalk fields until the
middle of winter and then fed on the
roughage about the place the rest of
the winter. AS the cows will be
carrying calves. they should not be
permitted to get poor, but should be
kept in a thrifty condition.
10. If possible, dip all of the stock
each spring and fall to keep them free
of lice and to put their skin in good |!
II
IA. Farmers who have number OF
cattle will usually have to let the bull II
run in the pasture with the cows. If
this is the case, do not put him with
them before May Is or June l, and
AXE him away the list of September
5y doing this the calves will be
dropped in the early spring months.
owners of large herds of cattle should
wherever practicable keep the steers
n q separate pasture from the breed
ng stock, and the bull may be turned
q with them during the season when
,e is not with the cows.
Is. Never keep grade bull for a
ire II a pure bred one can be secured.
The natural sequence of the forma-
ion Of community clubs for breeding
md raising cattle will be the co-opera-
i've shipping to such markets as show
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