New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-03-13
Interesting Facts About
the Model Farm.

therefore more profitable to the breeder,
After this second cross it takes almost
an expert to distinguish the native born
cattle from the genuine Hereford. As
cording to Mr.. Queseuberry foreign ami
mails do not thrive in this climate but
by this crossing method animals are
improved and thrive on the food Incl
dental to their immediate environment
It looks like it is more than worth while.
In one enclosure there was a Brahm 4
bull The animal is a sort of curiosity,
flaps its long ears like Missouri mule
and looks somewhat like a circus animal.
This fellow is a vicious animal but a most
docile looking brute, showing that ap-
pearances are sometimes most deceiviuE.
In another compartment lot of brood
mares are kept. Here young mules are
raised as per the specifications of Uncle
Sam and they are husky lot looking very
much like the Missouri product with the
same proclivity to buck, rear and be
stubborn.
The hog pens are another revelation.
Here a number of brood sows were
auartered with litters of little pigs. The
DuIoc Jersey hogs mature quickly, 1-o
easily raised and the boars weigh from
80 to 500 pounds each and the sovs
from $50 to 300 pounds each.
Native cows are crossed with these
monster boars and bred up. The it,le
pigs are sold to enterprising farmers who
are anxious for better their stock. Other
pigs are sent to Fort Worth, Texas to
market. 3
there were a number of Jersey cows, in
another young bulls and in still another
young cows not yet fresh In one pen
there was incarcerated one Of the most
magnificent specimens of Jersey COW a
gentleman would care to own This
chap has a ring in his nose and same is
fastened to a small chain which in turn
Is connected with a wire stretched across
the enclosure. He is lazy brute 50
the writer was informed and in this way
he was made to take exercise so that ie
might not get overfat and be of little
service.
In another enclosure a number Of Jer-
sey calves were installed. They had just
been de-horned as Mr. Qucsenberry PIT
it, and were in playful mood. This de-
horning process deprives them of Their
horns, which are their natural weapons
of defense, so that they may not fight
and otherwise iniure each other.
The Jersey cows at the station must
be able to give 365 pounds of butter from
their milk per year in order to rece 7c
tbe official register. There are several
at the plant that give over 400 pounds
and there is no guess work about it.
Having viewed all the animals, the
writer was taken into the milking sta
ton, where the milk is taken from the
COW and tested as to poundage, weight,
etc. Here everything was as clear aud
as spick and span as soap and water
could make it and germs are an unknown
quantity in this plant.
The farm owns its own pneumatic
pumping station, which supplies water
to the entire farm and there is a storage
battery system for electric lights, which
are furnished in all the barns, stalls and,
incidentally, the cottages of the employees,
which Mr.. Quesenberry insisted on call
ing Quarters" Each family Is supp
with a cottage and the homes also are
kept as neat as the proverbial pin-ail
because of the process inculcated in their
minds ofexactness and cleanliness.
Cleanliness, by the way, is the watch
word of the entire establishment and even
the manure is not allowed to collect, the
same being used for fertilizer for grow
ing the crops.
There are also eight silos of 100-ton
capacity each on the plant. Corn sile-
age, soy bean, Egyptian wheat, Sorghum
cane, Japanese cane, etc. are stored IN
these immense silos. In another recep-
tacle COW pea hay and molasses is kept.
This is fed to the dairy cows for milk
producing.
The writer left with the firm impress
sion that scientific cattle raising is an
art, one which would more than pay the
producer to carefully study and emulate.
According to Mr.. Quesenberry the an
nual "Beef Cattle Day" will be staged
at the farm on Saturday, March 9th,
and the farmers throughout the State
have been invited to attend the event,
which promises be one of the largest
of its character ever held in Louisiana.