The Ocala banner., 1919-05-16
ADDRESS ON LIVESTOCK
in FLORIDA
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the same thing. II there are nd
breeds started in your community
organize the cattle owners who wish
to begin with good blood, and by al
majority vote decide on one breed
and which one. Don't try Cross
breeding. You are not wiser than
the scientific breeders who have been
a hundred years building breed
which fool can badly mutilate with
one class. Stick to the breed you be-
gin with. or sell all you have and be-
gin with another. OF course this sug-
gestion is for ideal conditions and
must be varied by compelling practi-
cal reasons.
Not many steer breeders can be also
steer feeders. 1t is better for large
cattlemen to breed and small farm
ers to feed
Tn feeders choice of breeds is in
the future because at present he can
OUIy BCI 6PlinhlC VI 81 ouCS es4AN
will readily take any of them. My
experience in feeding has covered
most of the breeds mentioned, and
they all feed well, even quarter-bloods
showing big gains over the scrub
steer under similar operations.
But the promise of the feeder get
ting good cattle to feed is already
able to be accepted by those of
strong faith, and / speak seriously
when / say that this meeting is go
ing to help to realize the promise.
Such a gathering cans promulgate the
gospel of grass, feed and tick eradi-
cation. Starvation and ticks are the
only sources of loss of Florida cat
tie; we have no disease.
Each person present should write
to his representative in the legisla.
ture, urging statewide compulsory
tick eradication, which is now under
consideration by our lawmakers. If
there are any here who are not .un-
selfish, let them know that there is
no one thing which can be done to-
increase business, bring new popula-
tion of both men and animals, nor
all more TO existing values Of all
classes of property in Florida than
tick eradication when accomplished.
This is not prophesy. 1t is history
in Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and
elsewhere.
Florida must get rid of ticks or
those states which have done so will
get rid of Florida in beef production.
AS an object lesson on the prog
ress in breeding-up in Florida and
the valu eof tick eradication / wish
to show you an account of the first
sale in public way of grade steer
in 1904, sold by Chambliss & Co. to
Armour & Co., and one of the same
kind sold 10 the same firm in 1916.
Extract from the speech of r. p.
Conroy, Armour's manager in Jack
sonville before the Southeastern
Stock Growers convention at Jack.
sonville, January II, 19O5.)
Scrub cattle can be bred up to
standard that will make them CON-
petitors of the western beef, con-
sumed in Florida and the South. We
need nothing more to demonstrate
that to our entire satisfaction than
to consider the example given us by
z. c. Chambliss of Ocala.
Il want to call your attention to
the fact that he has produced by
ordinary methods of beef feeding a
beef steer which weighed 669 pounds
on foot; dressed 416 pounds, an aver
age OF 81 per cent. All this done
and the animal one year and seven
days old. We slaughtered the ami,
NAL for him and / am here to say
that it is splendid piece of beef.
1t grades above the average of beef
being sent here from Fort Worth,
and is at once direct competitor of
the western product maintain
that every true friends of Florida
owes to Mr.. Chambliss debt of !
gratitude for the work of education.
that he is carrying on"
Regarding the sale of 1918, you
are all more or less acquainted thru
the public prints, with the cham.
pion steer at the state fair. The
following tables illustrates the point.
Date Age Weight
1914 yr. days 669 lbs.
1913 I yr. 6 mos 1920 lbs.
Total