The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1916-06-10
MCCALL TO ENLARGE HERDS.
Stock Company Organized and Policy
of Expansion Formulated.
New Orleans Item. june

Mccall did, It wouldn't make much
ditfereEes III another year or two,
from a farm prefit point of view,
whether sugar goes on the free list or
not, The sugar sections would pros
per just the same; probably in larger
measure than heretofore.
About two years ago Mr.. Mccall,
with limited amount Of ready cap
itai, engaged in the live stock bust
ness On a small scale on the Evan Hall
sugar plantation near Donaldsonville.
lhe talk or free sugar was ringing in
his ears. He went to Kentucky and
bought Is registered Duroc sows and
one boar. Later he iourneyed TO
IeSss and bought Is pure bred Short
hotn cows with calves and herd bull.
Today, two OF the most famous ami
mails in the United States-Louisi-
ana Defender and Watson-are OF,
the Mccall place and We're raised en-
t,Eeiy by him. Defender has won
grand champion premiums wherever
shown III the swine ring, and Watson
has captured two successive cham
/ pionships at the National Fat Stock
Show, He is insured for $1,000.
! Last fall, Mr., McCall's herd of
lswina had been built up to 400 head.
The demand for good hogs then be-
gan to grow. As Mccall was In the
breeding business and not selling for
pork, he sold to all coners, the ami
mails bringing good prices. While
supplying the demand for registered
| hogs in Louisiana in order to boost
| up the live stock industry In the state,
his herd diminished TO such an extent
that it must be doubled. Mr.. Mccall
| declares he has, at this time, more or
ders for Duroc pigs for future deliv-
cry than he can possibly expect to fill
unless he gets IN more foundation
stock. This he will do within q few
weeks. He says he viii go to the
north and buy the finest blooded stock
ohtainablebe stock than lae ori-
ginally bought in Kentucky. He
realizes the hog business is growing
and paying in Louisiana, and that the
buyers want the best stock.
The Mccall Blue Ribbon Live Stock
Farm has been incorporated with
$40, 600 capital stock. Mr.. Mccall is
president and general manager Jules
C. Werner, a WeIl-knoWn Orleanian,
Is vice president; II. G.. Mccall, secra-
Eary and treasurer. c. b. Fox, also
Of New Orleans, one of tlle eity's
principal Grain exp xporterss ii d stock
-
pany.
The new company will enter into
the live stock business on big scale.
Besides doubling the cattle and swine
herds, the working force on the farm
Ia .s5es,A nga,a
viii be grown and arrangements will
be made to carry a larger number Of
animals to the various fairs this fall
than ever before,
When men like Mr.. Fox and Mr..
Werner become actively interested in
a live stock farm, it is q safe bet that
it is safe game to play. They be-
lieve in Louisiana'a future as TO rails
ing hogs and cattle, and have invested
their money on the strength of this
belief and on the strength Of Mr.. Nc
Calls fine showing with stock in the
past two years. They are to be COM
mended, There is still room and OPP
portunity FOR other city folks to in
vest IN similar propositions. Live
stock raising is certainly safe prop
osition IN Louisiana.
Mr., Mccall, accompanied by r. w.
kisel, beef cattle specialist of the L.
I s. q. extension service, will leave
next Tuesday for Texas, where he
will purchase a big lot of the finest
pure bred shorthorns that can be
found. Three carloads will be
bought and shipped to Louisiana; Nc
Call will get most Of these, but Mr..
t.,xY ~t-+t
parties who have caught the wise
idea of live stock farming. The cat
tie will be secured from ranchmen
near Fort Worth, and Mccall says he
will endeavor to get the Watson
blood or even better.
It is the desire of the directors of
the company TO build up the largest
and finest herd Of hogs and cattle in
Louisiana. Mccall says he does not
care as much about having the large
herd as he does about having fine
stock. In this he is right. 1t is time
for Louisiana to get rid Of the scrub
sires and dams and put in pure-bred
animals. And il the Blue Ribbon
Farm can raise enough Of this fine
stock to supply the Louisiana demand,
SO that home people can buy good
stock from home people, it will be
big thing for Louisiana.
Mr.. Mccall knows all about the SUI
gar business. Probably no one in the
state could tell hira anything about
the ups and downs Of that one-crop
system, which should be discarded and
diversifeation practiced He de-
| clares that the cattle and hog indus
TRY has nept him on his feet. The
/ cattle have paid dividends as large,
in proportion to the first investment,
| as the hogs. He considers live stock
farm, even If very small, a very yalu-
able adjunct to any sugar plantation
I--he proved it on his own place and
lis now growing bigger and richer.
I Corn, oats, alfalfa, soy and velvet
| beans, lespedeza, peanuts and red clo-
yer are growing In abundance on Nc
/ Calls place. He says you can't make
money out of hogs and cattle unless
| you feed them-and that feed must
i be grown at home and not bought
4 from stores.
Fofethought.
People are learning that little
! ! forethought often saves them big
!, expense. Here is an instance: II do
not believe that our family has been
,, without Chalnberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy since we com
! meneed keeping house years ago,
Il When we go on an extended visit we