The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-29
RESULTS OF THE CATTLE TRIP.

It is indeed significant that of all tn eWest
Floridians who visited the greatest stock
and hog belt in the United States, if not the
entire world, not one would swap his lot IN
West Florida for holding in the prosperity
region of Kentucky and Tennessee.
The vastness of this thought is almost
beyond comprehension. Bear in mind
that our party left region consisting
mainly of timber land with the timber gone,
scrub cattle not bringing in very much
money, and razorback hogs that give one
the glooms; land where mortgages are
more frequent than corn records; where
MANY people are still too discouraged to
eradicate the tickl
They left this region and were trans
ported overnight into land flowing
with milk and honey not vacant acre IN
sight; a stupendous corn crop just turning
the roasting ear stage; with dairy and beet
cattle, the finest in the world, grazing on
pasture up to their TANKS; land where
mules are raised for which we pay $7OO a
pair land of wondrous roads. fine houses,
and lots of money; with county tax rate
Would it not have been pardonable II
our West Floridians, thus taken upon a
high mountain and shown the. splendors
of the world, had exclaimed with the first
gasp to surprise-Gee, if we only lived
here!
But they did not To the everlasting
vindiQation of every claim that has been
made for Sunshine Land, not one of tbs
party wanted to move-even for moment
1--WE have a better land than they have
they said sits only our methods that are
wrong. We can raise more corn If we &c
about it as they do we can raise mule:
cheaper; we can raise hogs equally as good
and as fine grade of beef cattle; we cal
supply our own dairy needs, and have
enough to ship besides. And we can do /
cheaper because our warm winter gives u
pasture all the year and saves outla.
in barns and stables that our northern
friends must make; our land is cheaper tel
fold to start with than the land up there
Our pastures need developing, and our crol
rotation needs % be established on NOR
scientific lines. We know how others ar
doing it-now watch us do il"
This is not the boost talk of man wh
wants to sell 1and-it is the last word o
men who want to buy land: the most up
to-date and successful business men ant
farmers of this entire region, not one Q
whom but has stated emphatically that h
is going to develop his cattle as never be
fore; import pure stock; and get into tn
market that is rising, rising, rising all tn
time.
Ard it's equally significant that man
Kentuckians are contemplating sellin
out their holdings and moving to Yves
Florida. A party will pay US Thanksgi0
ing visit this Fall, forerunners of an imm
grafton that will set this way just as 500
as the cattle tick is eliminated
With land at FIVE, ten, and fifteen do
lars an acre; of demonstrated fertility
capable of producing an average of 81
bushels of corn; nearby market for BET
and pork, no wonder the watchword is G
South
If we who are here don't profit by VIII;
the gentlemen of the cattle trip have foun
out, we will be like the Mexicans who
a land of untold riches, sit idly by and 81
the resources of their country exp1oite
by men from the north who know hov
The Farm Loan bill will help the farm
ers to develop their holdings, and we mis-
our guess if the local banks won't be ju
IS anxious to encourage investment in ca
tie This is our golden moment.