The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-30

The Mcqueen Smith Farming company,
 Autauga county, Alabama, made south ern live stock history April 16 last,
 when they set anew record on the East
 St. Louis market for southern cattle in
 selling 21 head of grade Aberdeen-Angus
 steers for s15.6o a hundredweght, the sale having been made for the company
 by the Clay, Robinson & Co. live stock
 commission.
 Not only was this record a milestone in southern live stock advancement, but it was also clear indication in dollars and cents of what good Aberdeen-Angus bulls can produce from native cows. These steers were the product of some of the
 good bulls distributed in the south by the American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders association at their spring sales iI Bir- mingham Memphis and other poinN in cooperation with the United States gov ernment in the past five years.
 w. B. Smith, president of the Mcqueen Smith company is southerner who grad uated from the Iowa State College of Agriculture in 1907 and returned to Ala
 bama to make good the college theories he had learned. The capital stock of the company has just been increased from s100,000 to s200.O0O.
 Three years ago the boil weevil forced this big company to diversity, and cattle feeding was begun. The cattle were rouehed on pasture until January and then few on hay, silage, velvet beans and cottonseed meal, all native feeds pro- duced on the plantation.
 More than 20o0 acres of the Mcqueen Smith plantation are under cultivation,
 the plantation being about eight miles r1,a ivt1 slo is being completed to carry forward
 the cattle feeding work, providing to-
 tai capacity of 24o0 tons.
 "Our steers last fall were run in the cornfields i've snap corn in our section)
 until January IF said MT. Smith in tell ing of the feeding of his Aberdeen- Angus
 steers. We plant velvet beans between
 the rows of corn and cattle thrive on
 this forage. We keep the steers in these
 fields until about January l. when we
 take them to the lots and feed cotton seed meal with silage and some velvet
 beans added. Our cattle did very well this season and made money"
 A special train shipment of live stock to market was made recently from Fin terprise. and is said to have been the first train shipment of the kind ever made from an Alabama point. The spe- cial train consisted of a3 cars and the value of the stock which they contained
 was estimated at s71.000. Six additional
 carloads of stock were ready for ship
 ment, but the cars could not be included
 in ths train. Twerty-nine carloads of
 hogs were shipped to market the prevl-
 ous week from another Alabama county,
 but were not forwarded in q solid tram.
 Frank L.. Jones, Troy, Ala, sold to the
 AnGalusia Packing company, Andalusla,
 TO steers at l5 cents a pound. the lot
 briraine more than s21,0oo. The steers,
 which were Herefords and Shorthorns,
 weighed from 1000 to 1501. MT. Jones purchased the steers last fall at Sss
 cents. and fed them for five months on velvet beans, peanut hay. meal and other foodstuffs
 4 total of 159 hogs were sold at co operative public sale here at Union Springs by the Bullock County Live Stock Sales association and were pur- chased by Barabee Bros. The price paid for the first grade was 1926. The hogs graded as follofs: First. B; second, sl and third, 25.
 Ten carloads of hogs have been shipped to market this sea-~p from Opeli'<a the hogs having been -aised in the vinicitv of that city Last ~.s,s0n three or 1oui carloads were slipped from Opelika An aygre ate of S1s carloads cf livt ! stock ho's been shipped to market thi'