The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-31
GEORGIA IS TURNING
TO CATTLE INDUSTRY
GREAT INCREASE IN LIVESTOCK
RAISING IN SOME OF THE
COTTON STATES

For many years retail butchers in
southern cities have offered two kinds
of beef to their customers native
beef and Chicago or Omaha beef
The native beef was from the animals
grown in the Southern states and
slaughtered at home, while the Chica-
go or Omaha beef was from steers
bred and fattened in the West. Ma
tive beef was considered inferior and
rarely came up to the quality of the
western packing house product, and
sold for less money, the reduced
price running back to the farmer, who
got less for his live animals than the
western farmer was able to command.
The cattle tick, which has been large
ly eliminated, was in part responsible
for the poor quality of southern cat
tie, but the greatese drawback was the
failure of the southern farmer to give
the careful attention to the cattle in
Edustry, or to any other department of
agriculture for that matter, that he
: gave to cotton. This situation is rap
J. idly changing, however, and not only is
native beef finding a ready home mark
ct at full prices in the South, but
Southern cattle are making their way
in competition with western stock in
to the yards of the great packing
centers. Persons who study con-
ditions incided to cattle rising agree
that this situation is as it should be.
The South has every advantage of
climate, location and soil There are
no short seasons to frost the corn and
forage crops, grass available mostal
throughout the year, long droughts are
rare and never sufficiently severe to
threaten the supply of drinking water,
ad there is at hand a consuming popu-
lation ample to supply an excellent
market, ad besides the Southern stat
es are almost as near the North and
East as are Chicago and Kansas City
and Omaha.
In Georgia the good cattle move
ment is rapidly growing in favor.
Good breeding stock is in demand to
improve the cattle, especially here in
South Georgia. and thousands of car
the packing houses during the course
of a year. Demonstrations in the
breeding and feeding of beef cattle
and pasture improvement are receiv-
ing special attention in many new
quarters. Many carloads of cattle are
being brought to this section from
1.-THE droughtstricken region of Texas.
/ Recent reports indicate that the
live stock industry is flourishing in
Florida, and that thousands of good
breeding cattle are being SHIPPED in
to the state. One large farm recent
ly brought 1000 Hereford cows from
Texas for breeding purposes. The
cattle. brought into the state last year
from the southwest have given en-
tire satisfaction and are largely re-
sponsible for the present impetus in
the industry.
To assist cattle raisers in the south
west, where drought has saused
great scarcity of feed from suffering
financial loss and to prevent hun
dreds of thousands of beef-breeding
cattle from being slaughtered and re-
moved from the country sources of
meat, field agents of the department
of agriculture in cooperation with
local and state authorities, especial
iy the Texas cattle raisers' associa-
tions, are transferring cattle to the
southeast and corn belt states, where
feed is plentiful. Up to the middle of
September seventy-nine carloads of
cattle had been shipped to the south
east. Arrangements have been made
so that cattle may be shipped from the
drought-stricken area at a reduction of
25 per cent from the regular freight
rate. This movement of cattle is sup