New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-03-13
By Frank Noel, Manager Ne
Iberia Chamber of Commerce.

Iberia Chamber of Commerce.
Have you, dear reader, any idea of how
cattle for beef, cows for dairy milk, hogs
for prime ham, the kind one reads about
in the magazines and work horses and
mules are raised as per your Uncle Sam s
most modern methods No Well II
would be time well spent to visit the
Iberia Live Stock Experiment Farm just
a few miles outside the City limits oil
the road TO Jeanerette In fact visit TO
this modern plant is an education to any
one not versed in the science which is fast
making modern America the most pros
porous country in the world in virtually
every line Of producing endeavor. Skilled
service is given the animals at the Ey-
perimental farm, each pound of milk
from the many JERSEY cows at the plant
is weighed and tested; the average
porndage per year; the mount of butter
fat contained in each gallon of milk; the
amount of food used TO raise this and
that animal; the amount Of sileage used; ;
the various amount of protcids in each
brand Of sileage used; the various
AMOUNT of proteids in each brand Of
sileaee determined; Just how each animal
progresses on such and such feed, etc,
sec these facts are determined with an
exsctness that proves to the most pes
simstic that Uncle Same is more than
willing to lend a hand and teach he
struggling farmer how to best get re-
suits and by the same token show him
the proper way Of producing better cat
tie and get better results in a financial
way. To the novitiate or uninitiated a
visit to the farm is more than a liberal
education and is, in fact, a revelation 20
the beholder
Early in the week the writer was the
guest Of J. R. Quesenberry, the estimable
specialist in charge of the livestock
farm and was shown over the plant and
mahy details of the workings of tne
giant machine explained. The plant
raises beef cattle, horses, mules, hogs
and dairy cows. The plant consists Of
500 acres and on it virtually everything
used for feed for the cattle is raised,
sileage crops hay, oats and the entire
menu Of the said beeves and hogs, etc.
The writer was first shown the offices
OF the farm, where a clerical force of
three men are kept busy keeping records
sly We tias progress of the animals in
charge. Forms are made out with an ex-
actness that is a compliment to Mr..
Quesenberry. When the record of a COW
has been completed at the end of each
fiscal year there is no room for doubt as
to that particular animals capabilities.
The records prove beyond per-adver e
ture just the capacity of the COW, just
how much milk she gives over a certain
period and also at the end of each fiscal
year, also how much butter fat is in eacn
gallon of milk and so on. The various
costs of feeding each animal also are
determined and when the record is COM
plete there is no guess work as to what
caliber of animal has been recorded. The
experiments are carried on with the same
exactness as is done at chicken farm ex-
perimental stations, where trap nests
are used to determine how many eggs a
chicken will lay on certain kinds of feed.
The 200-egg chicken was an unknown
quantity a few years ago but now it has
been proved that some hens can lay over
300 eggs per year. In this connection the
writer would like to mention that ae
once owned a hen that layed over us
eggs in one year when it was over four
years old-some hen that Only wish
owned a few more Just like her for she
had egg producing ability that fairly as
founded my neighbors. The neighbors
called her a freak but she wasn't, but
merely hen bred up to the point of ef-
ficiency that meant profits to the keeper
Harking back again to the original
subject-Mr. Quesenberry then took the
writer through the sheds where beeves
and steers were housed, They were a
lot of fine looking Hereford and Short
horns, being fattened for the table. Tue
Hereford calves also were things of
beauty and were full of play, in fact,
one of them licked the writer's hand as
if it meant it. Don't know whether for
salt and sugar.
Mr.. Quesenberry explained that those
magnificent Hereford bulls were crossed
with native cows and again crossed.
After the second breeding the native
animals are improved TO a material eA-
tent ARE much larger in size, weight ap-