The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1920-11-05
Purchase Purebred Bulls.

One of the biggest drives on the
scrub sire in Tennessee this year has
Just been completed in Humphreys
County. Eighteen pnrcbred bulls
have been purchased comparatively by
the farmers of the different commun-
tiles of the county and more than
twenty-five scrub sires have been
sent to the market.
For some time the farmers OF
this county have been dissatisfied
with the kind of cattle they have
been producing and this feeling
reached it's climax in August when
an organized drive to weed out the
scrub and replace him with pure
breds was started under the auspices
of the County Council of Agriculture.
County Agent T. H. Richardson, J.
B. Link, president of the county
council and chairman of the live
stock committee, and L. A. Richard
son, livestock specialist of the Divis-
ion of Extension, conducted ten meet
ings in the different sections of the
county and considerable interest was
shown by the farmers, many stating
that they had one or two scrub males
on their farms but would get rid of
them at once. A roundup meeting
attended by more than 100 farmers
was held at the county seat August
FL and a committee to purchase
eighteen purebred bulls was ap-
pointed.
At the county fair which was held
at Waverly on October the bulls
which had been purchased by the
committee were on exhibit and at the
close of the fair were distributed to
the different sections of the county.
The lot represented nine Shorthorn
bulls purchased from the herds of L.
L. Little & Co., Fayetteville, E. G.
Clark, Nashville, and McNeill and
Agnew, Rives; seven Aberdeen-An-
gus-purchased from the herds Of H.
r. Duncan and "A. G. Hitch, Mary
Vile, and DR.. ]. /. Higgins, Dand-
| ridge; two Hereford bulls from good
herds in the county. The county was
largely divided into two sections, the
Angus bulls going to one and the
Shorthorns to another. This was
very gratifying to the livestock com
mittee of the County Council of Ag-
riculture since it will mean that the
farmers of these two sections will
each have one breed of cattle. Due
to existing herds it was Impractical
to establish one breed in the whole
county. So this was the next best
STEP After two years it is planned
to exchange these bulls, one com
munity exchaning its bull for that o.
another. BY this method the bulls
may be used for a period of eight tt
ten years.
From $500 to 1000 people at
tended the county fair and thes'
bulls were one of the outstandin,
features of the livestock exhibits a
we'll as of the whole fair. 1t was
great event in the history OF tn
county. 1t meant the beginning o
new day in the livestock industr
of the county and all showed mucl
interest in the movement. The pro
gressive spirit shown by the leader
and the farmers of this county indi
Gates the Punishment of the scru
from the county. They consider hir
an abomination. He has long con
sumed the grain and roughage c
their fields returning nothing bu
> loss and waste Their battle cry is
MAY his tribe and generation be n
more"
May the other counties of tn
y state follow in concert the exampl
: of this county, to the complete elm
}. nation of the most worthless animi
J. of the farm, the scrub sire.