The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-14
M EN, w o M E N
 A ND T HIN G 5

| l put in the greater part of last week
 in Nashville trying to get a line on
 the Fat Stock show. I went up with
 Jack Phillips, because I knew that he
 knew how to put me next to the right
 people, as well as to point out the best
 steers.
 had harped long and sung loud for
 the purebred, and so I wanted to chant
 hymn to the humble steers upon whom
 We feed, for in the last analysis of the
 cattle game here in Alabama we have ], got to pay Attention to beef cattle, and
 learn to raise them at home.
 l l know that to do this we have got to have the purebreds for sires and mothers, l but the thing I now have in mind is to
 stress the fact that Alabama is losing a ! lot of money in raising scrub stock, as it takes more feed and time 10 put them
 OH the market than it does to fit fat
 steers with proper blood lines behind 1 them.
 Why did L. go to Nashville? For the simple reason that the Rock City.
 5S~iiNo OaS piC-cliiiHSuLly as LH6 AdT6 6CSS live stock market in the south, the clear ings for this industry amounted to ap-
 proximately sso,oOo,ooO last year. The spectacular growth of the Nashville live l stock production profitable. No wonder, wide attention in live stock and packing , house circles
 Nashville is located in the heart of the greatest live stock producing section in America; ideal climatic conditions, splendid grazing lands, fertile soil, pro- ductive of a diversity of crops, and an
 abundant supply of good water make live stoc kproducton profitable No wonder. then. that vast sums of money are now being spent annually by local stock yards and packing house interests to en- able it to take care of the steadily in- creasing business,
 According to the United States depart ment Of agriculture there were on farms in Tennessee on January 1, 1920, SS4,Ooo milch cows. 593,000 other cattle, l,94s,O0O hogs and 5S4, 900 sheep, with total valu-
 ation of $s1, ,e52, 900. But Nashville is not satisfied with this showing, and in or der to speed up production, believing that the state can raise all the grain crops and roughage necessary for the mainte-
 Eance and fattening of more than double the amount 1t is now doing, the Nashville Union Stock Yards. four years ago in augurated the Fat Cattle show.  It was my first entry at a fat cattle show, pure and simple I had seen the start we made for one in my home state
 at the Alabama State Fair, but while the state and the fair had both done aroused sufficiently to make it what it
 should have been and must be if the pre-
 miums are to be kept up, and wanted to see just how our neghbors to the north turned the trick so successfully. In fat cattle show, only such animals as are to be sold for slaughter pur-
 poses are permitted to compete for the premiums offered; and all animals com peting for the premiums must be sold al public auction. This works in two ways for the breeders. It gives them chance to pull down good money and an oppor- tunity to get the top-notch price for their
 offerings at the close of the show. It's l the best way to stimulate beef production that has been hit upon.
 The Nashville Union Stock Yards, Inc, the promoters of the show, put up $S,OOO in premiums. In the open carlots, 16 or more constituting a carload there was a prize of $1,0oo for the first, $500 for
 the second, 800 for the third and $1Oo for
 the fourth. Boys and girls baby beef
 clubs were allowed to show in this class,
 provided there were IS animals in single club.
 Furthermore, if a. single club has sufficient number of animals to make
 more than one entry it was permitted to
 do so, provided, however, there were as
 many as 1s animals in each entry; but
 where animals were shown in the carload
 class and taken out and shown in In- |dividual classes, whether winning or not,
 they were thrown back with the carload
 lot when sold except in the case of the grand championship animal; that animal. if it happened to be one of the carload,
 has the right to be sold individually. The carload lots were judged in the pens where lotted.
 In class Mo- 2, individual baby beef class, there were premiums of $10o, $60 and
 $40 each for the best Hereford, Short horn or Angus, all being shown under the halter and judged in the arena. Glass No. 3, carlot of baby beeves. open oniy to carlots of baby beeyes fed by boys and girls baby beef clubs organized un- der the direction of the division of az ricultural extension: premiums of $1oo. sse and $40 for first, second third. Class No. 4. individuals, best steer and best heifer. This was an open event: best steer $ioo, best heifer $1o0 Class No. 5. grand championship, $1o0. The winners In class No. and class No. 4 only eligible in this class.
 After the cattle were judged on Wednesday, then on Thursday they were put up for sale, the winner of the grand championship being sold first. Raised in Alabama by the Meadow Brook farm. he was bought by Jack Phillips for the Birmingham Packing company at CD cents a pound. Weighing 1,455 pounds, he fetched S73. This. with the $1oo prize. totalling ssD.. Friend Walter Smith ought to be satisfied, as he also got another