Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-02-14
CATTLE MEN
SHOW PROGRESS
Have Made Great Strides in I'm.
pr0vement in Cattle Breeding
in Past Few Years-Ofiicers
For Coming Year.

the Court House Tuesday afternoon.
There was present representative
gathering Of farmers and graziers,
all sections of the county being rep
resented.
County Agent Roscoe R. Wall call
cd tl:c meeting to order, and took ad-
vantage of the opportunity to outline
to the farmers Of the county what he
proposed to do the coming year. He
discussed the question of vaccination
of cattle, spraying and pruning fruit
trees and preventing smut in oats.
Regarding the vaccination of cattle
he said that i. would be necessary
to vaccnate young cattle twice a year
to keep blacli-lcg away.
The county agent is of the opinion
that great many fruit trees and or
namental t2ccs rs we'll are being ruin
ed by inexperienced tree doctors"
who know nothing CT modern meth
DDS of pruning and spraying.
With the use Of formaldchydc Nh.
Wall has demonstrated that smut III
oats can be absolutely prevented He
cited the case of Phillip Baughs oat
i;cld-in 1917 25 per cent of the oats
was ruined by the smut; i'll 1918 the
oats we're absolutely free from the
smut. The formaldchyde can be used
to rid the seed of smut for about 8
cents per acre.
Pure-Bred Association.
Robert S. Moss of Burke's Garden,
President of the Pure-B Bred Associa-
tion, called the meeting to order and
after n roll-call it was seen that ma!
jority of the 140 shares of stock was
represented and the meeting proceed
ed to business. The minutes of the
last meeting were read and approx
ed. The report Of the scerctary-treas-
nrer, Mr.. Jas. Ed. Peery, who was abb
sent, was read and approved.
President r. S. Moss delivered what
he thought would be his "swan song"
but after he finished his speech, he
was reelected, with the other officers
of the association for anther year
MIR. Moss reviewed the work of the
Association for the past year, and
stated that it WAS his opinion that the
introduction of the purc-bred bulls in
the county was the greatest stride
the cattle people of tho county had
made inthe history of the industry
Prof. A. S. Greever predicted that
real success i'll the venture was near
ut hand end that the day was not far
distant when the cattle in the county
would all be thoroughbred, and that
4, scrub would be such n rare thing
that one would travel miles to see it.
BY aunanimous consent, (supra)
ell the officers Of the association were
reelected for another term as fol-
lows:
President, Robert S. Moss, Burke's
Garden.
Secretary and Treasured, James Ed.
Peely, North Tazewel.
Buying committees. j. Thomp-
son, Of the Cove, and R. M. Lawson,
of Burke's Garden.
There was an effort on the part of
p. G. Baugh to open the discussion of
free service, which was settled at
former meeting, but the sentiment of
the meeting was so strong against it
that the effort proved unGvailing.
However, it appeared that many of
the bull-keepcrs were of the opinion
that they were carrying more than
their share Of the burden. This ques-
tion * now being considered by the
proper solution may be expected.
Mr.. w. II. Burress, of v. P. l., in
the uniform of Lieutenant of the
u. S. Army, was introduced and spoke
on the cattle industry. Mr.. Burress
was former county demonstrator for
Lee county, where they rcise Here
ford cattle, but was warned when he
started to speak that the less he said
rbout Hereford cattle the better it
would be for bin. Well, he said this:
II he were to take a Lee county Here
ford and paint the white out of his
fcce, and drive him to Tazewell, he
would not be at all surprised il some
Shorthorn "crank" would remark,
"That's one of the fiuest specimens Of
thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle ! have
ever seen. Mr.. Burress remarked
that he had heard some speaker say
something OF sowing soy beans in
idHeNcil CouhIys WHICH WIS RISi-t
surprise to him, as ne had always
heard that soy beans were intended
Tor poor land, 'but 1 guess there is
poor land here, like everywhere else,
notwithstanding the fact / had heard
that Tazewell was the richest county
in the State"
The Pure-Bred Association adjourn
cd and Mr. j. w. Hicks, secretary
and treasurer of the farm loan asso-
citation Of Tazcwell county spoke of
the work of his association. He said
that the association had arranged fo1
$4,000 in loans in this county to the
farmers, and that he had a number OF
others under way. 1t hns been thor.
oughly demonstrated, he said, that the
farm loan is the greatest thing that
ever came to Tazewell county Mort.
cages had been removed, people have
been saved embarrassment by being
able to get money in this manner
when it could not be gotten elsewhere
He said that one or more persons hat
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