The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-05-27
OCALA
Beauu Prosperous County Seat County Florida

All the cereals, corn, beans. oats.
etc, grow abundantly; potatoes, sweet
and Irish, are produced prolifically:
it IS the paradise of the melon and
cantaloupes grower, many hundreds OF
cars Of these luscious e6ibles being
shipped every season; it is the home
of horticultures the orange grove hav-
ing again assumed it's potent, pleasant
and profitable sway; peaches, pears
and all manner of deciduous and cit
rus fruits thrive prodigiously in any
portion of Marion's soil and an idea
of the road to riches the truck farmer
is travelling can be gathered from the
authenticated statement that over
half million crates of vegetables
were shipped from Marion county last
season aside from that consumed at
home.
A short distance from the city is
the great Palmetto Stock Farm estab-
lished but few years ago but already
famous all over the country as the
breeding home of the best blooded
stock in the south
AS this great industry is compare
lively new, on gigantic scale in the
south, it is wise. to point out the con-
ditions which tend toward its success
and this cannot be .beiter done than
by quoting from one who pointed and
paved the way to the. goal.
In an interesting article prepared
about year ago Mr.. 2. C. Chambliss
of the Palmetto Stock Farm among
other things said:
I'M the growing and feeding Of cat
tie, land is the largest single invest1
ment dispensable to the success of the
business. This is historic as well as
economical fact From biblical days
the cry of the herdsman has been for
cheap lands.
"The cheapest lands now remains
ing in the United States adapted to
the production of cattle food stuffs3
are the cut over pine lands of the
Gulf states The same economic coa-
ditions which have brought cotton
mills to the cotton fields, will in the
near future, as inevitably transfer the
great cattle industry from the high
priced lands of the scorn-belt' to the
cheap, denuded forests lands of the
.wire-grass south Millions of acres
of these lands perfectly adapted to
grazing and the growing of abundant
crops, now lying in Ill the unattrac-
tiveness following in the wake Of the
despoiling saw mill and turpentine
still. are now available to the stock
man at prices so insignificant as to
be hardly worth qnoting. Already
large acres are being devoted to this
business, the center of which must
eventually move from the west to
the soutlf
.'The climate condition SO offersd by
this section are necessarily important
in controlling results.
Among these conditions, that Of
temperature is doubtless the most i'm
portant. Food is used in the animal
economy for two purposes. First. for
maintaining growth and supplying
animal waters. Second, for keeping
up the necessary heat Of the blood.
This latter function Of food is accom-
plished by actual combustion. The
amount. or proportion Of food used
for this purpose depends on surround
ing temperature, climate. the more
combustion. and use of food required
to maintain animal heat exactly as
in the case with the consumption OF
fuel for keeping any place or article
warm.
.The practical bearing OF this fact
lis demonstrated in actual feeding ex-