The Ocala banner., 1917-09-07

this herd he has cows which are reg
istered and cost him as high as $15(
each. We saw Angus bulls which tip
the scales at 400 pounds Six months
old Angus calves rs large as n4aay ci
our two and three year old scrubs
The Angus is very fine blood with
which to cross into the scrub. Almost
invariably the graded calf is black and
has no horns, There is possibly nc
prettier herd of blooded cattle in the
state than Mr.. Edwards Aberdeen
Angus, and he is Justly proud of them
He also has the ShorthOrn and Here.
ford
Mr.. Edwards specially is buying
feeding and selling beef cattle. He
takes herd of common woods steers
at this season of the year which will
weigh about $50 pounds gross, puts
them on pasturage grass until frost.
then TO velvet beans four to six weeks
and finishes on ensilage In this way
he makes the $50 steer go to about
700 pounds. We saw a small herd of
graded steers two and One-half yeare
old-sOme specials which will weigh
now about 62O pounds each These
he expects to run on pasturage, en-.
silage and feed until they tip the
beam at 1000 pounds each. The writer
believes he will reach this precedent
this year-or at least first of next
year.
few notes without comment isn't
out of place just here. Empty cattle
(having been kept up until their
stomaches are pretty we'll emptied
will lose fifty per cent in dressing.
This means ordinary woods cattle.
A one-year-old Aberdeen-Angu
yearling on the Edwards farms weighs
650 pounds. A three -year-old hull
weighs 900 pounds.
Mr.. Edwards sold ten cars of fat
cattle last season and will, in all prob.
ability, sell that many or more this
season.
Agricultural Department..
About three hundred acres comprise
the farm proper-agricultura depart
ment. 1t is. in some respects, like
reading stories of the good old halcyon
days of the sOuth-when plantation
life resounded with the happy song
OF the contented slave accompanied by
the bray of sleek mules, the lowing
of a thousand cattle, the cOck-a-doodle-
DO quack, quack, guack; gobble, strut,
sing, crow, Of hundreds of fowls of
every feather, tint and color, to visit
this farm and ride from field to field
and barn to barn with the genial man
ager or superintendent, Mr.. H j.
JeTnigan. A pretty hard rOad-the
public highway leading out from
Ocala through the rich agricultural
section of north Marion county-di-
vides the immense pastures, manager
Jernigan's residence, barns and other
buildings from the agricultural lands.
These plantations are veritable pic
lures of ineffible beauty. One hun.
dred and ten acres now planted to
corn, ready for the harvest, catches
the eye, and one wonders for the mo-
ment if he isn't in the Missouri val
leys. One hundred and sixty acres
of velvet beans stand up from three to
five feet deep just as thick as vege-
tation can grow on the ground. Thirty
five acres in sorghum make a marvel
ously beautiful picture just now; the
crop just headed out and ready for
the silo. Thirty-five acres just as fine
peanuts as can ordinarily be grown.
Six acres sweet potatoes promises
good with the harvesting already be-
gun on the first planting A large
sugar cane patch" will make the
syrup for the farm. Therfe are seven
ty-tive acres of cow peas which will
be cut for hay.
Three modern silos comprise four
hundred and fifty tonnage These
silos will all be filled with sorghum
this season. A large shed under which
a gasoline engine furnishes the power
covers machinery for filling the silos,
filling large water tank, grinding
cane, feed mills, etc Another large
shed shelters some of the finest farm
TO be seen in the south, in
Guiding among its numerous utensils
reapers, binders, drills, planters, seed
ers, cultivators, disc plows, three mule
turner. and number of other smaller
plOws and Implements
We say without fear of contradiction
that Mr. Jernigan is one of the most
successful farmers-practical farm
ers-in Florida today AS matter of
fact any man who isn't doing much