Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
What Better Live Stock Means to
American Farmers and Stockmen

| Sires in many cases to be owned
| comparatively or exchanged.
Live stock included Cattle,
horses, and asses, swine, sheep,
| goats, and poultry.
Agencies co-operating-The United
States Department of Agriculture.
| the State Agricultural colleges,
state live stock officials, live stock
associations, county agents, farm
| ers' organizations, agricultural and
| live stock journals.
/, Public co-operation-More than 500
7 live stock specialists have made
suggestions on the plan of cam
paign. Further constructive ideas
| and suggestions from any source
will be welcomed by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
| The following statements embody
about nine-tenths of the ideas adj
vanced by the specialists. ..,.
Plan simple enough to be easily
followed.
Federal departments chief inter
est will be to reinforce work of
states and counties, not to concern
itself with local details.
Departments energies mainly
along educational lines. although
many suggestions of legislation
against scrub sires have been made.
Plan includes everyone who keeps
any kind of domestic live stock
from the boy, or girl with a few
/ man or breeder of live stock.
Scrub pure-bred Sires as we'll as
common scrubs should be elimina-
| ted.
Feeding and care fully as impor-
| tant as good breeding.
! Local agricultural leaders in
I every community to decide whether
campaign shall be intensive or
| conducted slowly
Department to keep records of
progress by counties and announce
/ results periodically States to be
furnished with records, which they
may keep as they desire
En1blems to be furnished keep
ers or pure-bred sires of good quail
ity in all their classes of live
meritorious effort, but not guar
antee of the quality of live stock
Emphasis on the use of good
pure-bred sires rather than on
ownership.
| Individual benefits and more eff
rather than increased number Of
animals.
Each county to follow it's own
ideas as to the kind of stock it's
farmers should keep.
Farmers who do not care to take
dren do So
| The plan of campaign interferes
in no way with any work in live
stock Improvement now being con-
quoted. but makes all the work
more definite and effective by pro-
viding official recognition for pro
gressive breeders.
cement We would make the plat
form on which the cows stand about
feet long and give something like
3 feet of space to each animal We
would use the iron or steel staunch-
ions now manufactured by so many
concerns for the fastening of the
cows. The managers should he level
with the, central aisle floor This
aisle floor should be at least 12 inches
above the floor on which the cows
stand. The managers should be about
or - feet wide and should flare to
ward the central aisle. They should
rise above the platform on which
the cows stand at the back side say
about II inches. There should be a
gutter say Is inches wide and about
4, inches deep on the side on which
platform side which runs back OF
the cows. This should have drains
laid in it so that the whole place
can be flushed out. The platform
behind the cows should be about
or feet wide
We would put wire laths on this
barn and plaster with cement on
both sides, thus making a semi-fire-
proof structure and q sanitary barn
as well which can be washed down
with a hose at any time. Barns
should. as a rule, be painted white
or soft gray.
A structure of the kind you have
in mind will nrovide an abundance
of storage room for hay. fodder and
! concentrates. We would make the
roof Of galvanized shingles, though
; Of course. you could use composition
roofing noyg with the certainty that