Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-11-30
THE CATTLEONA
THOUSAND HILLS
TazewelPs Beef Production
Totals Large Sum of Money
Sheep, Hogs and Turkeys Help
Swell Our Income.

Since it seems the policy of the
Herald Courier to exploit the re-
sources, enterprises and interests of
the great section which it hopes to
cover and to which it looks for pnt-
ronage, l give you herein letter
size synopsis of the chief interest in
Tazewell-the breeding and fatten-
ing of beef cattle for the markets of
the world
No other county in our State, and
perhaps none in the United States
can claim precedence of Tazewell in
either weight per head, number shipp-
ed or quality of beef and with this
goes the fact that the cattle are fin
ished on grass alone.
Between 5000 and 6OOO Head.
have before me list of about fif-
ty names of shippers, individuals and
firms together, with the numbers
shipped this season, with possibly
some omissions, the numbers ranging
from $50 to 30 head, and making n
grand total of five thousand and one
hundred and forty, which Mt low es-
innate of $155 per head brings the
total comfortably close to million
dollars.
Not This Alone.
The estimate above only includes
the finished" beef cattle shipped;
near six thousand head Of all class
es have been shipped from Tazcwell
station alone, while there are four
other shipping yards in the county and
n reasonable estimate would place the
whole number of cattle-stock and
beeves, at considerably more than six
thousand head and requiring in
transport over three hundred cars.
Other Live Stock.
Only subsidiary to the great cattle
interest is the lamb production in
this great county. Fifty double deck
cars have been loaded this season ut
Richlands, Tip Top, and Graham in
this county, and since each car con-
tains an average of two hundred and
fifty head and as each lamb has
weighed, say 75 pounds and each
pound has brought at least ten cents
on foot the stock men and smaller
farmers have added to their bank nc-
counts the neat little sum of $780,
600, (little more and little less)
And Still The Hogs.
AS the winter preceding the round
up and shipment of the big cattle they
are fed almost entirely on corn in !
the shock and in order to utilize the |
waste the cattle are followed by the |
young hogs about in the proportion
of twenty-five for each hundred steers
and these bring in the first checks of |
the season, being marketed for ship
ment or sold the local packing house,
and leaving on the farms only enough |
for home use.
And The Birds.
A conservative estimate of the tur-
key crop going to the Thanksgiving
market as this is written, as 10000
a low guess, and the price at $500.
We find 100000 more to be added to
the great total-away over mil
lion dollars.
Of course, many of the great ag-
gregate of the cattle shipped from
Tazewell come from other sections
bought from Western and Canad-
ian stock yards, and very many from
East Tennessee, where all of the heav-
lest graziers are we'll known--the
Gillespies, the Thompsons, the Moss
es, the Wards, Bowens, Barns,-these
and others make annual trips to the
great breeding and feeding ranges in
Sullivan, Hawkins, and Washington
counties and will be brought together
by common interest in the columns
of the Herald-Courier. II MS.
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