The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-07-28
TENNESSEE IDEAL
FOR LIVE STOCK
STATE RAPIDLY TAKING PLACE
AT FOREFRONT
Pioneers in Producing Purebreds
Reaping Financial Reward-Scrub
Win BE Eliminated in Few Years
Opportunities of State Are I'M
limited.
(By I. T. Peck, Commissioner o.
Agriculture.

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| (By T. T. Peck, Commissioner o.
Agriculture
Tennessee is rapidly taking hei
: place in the forefront as a livestock
producing state, especially in pure
bred herds to furnish service animals
to bring up the standard Of ou
grade herds for market purposes.
Financial success is the reward OF
the efforts Of the pioneers in this
work, who have paid fabulous prices
for imported animals to produce
| thoroughbred service animals for dis
tribution among breeders of thor
oughbred and high grade herds
They are entitled to their reward, but
in time the prevailing high prices
for thOroughbreds will be followed
by lower prices, because Of the in
'rease in numbers in the rogeny of
e thoroughbred herds, There should
be conducted an aggressive campaign
t education among the livestock
men who have been raising scrubs.
They could be shown the money adj
antages in feeding high grades in
preference to scrubs; how much
sooner they got their growth, and the
greater returns in pounds from the
same quantity of feed; the advant-
ages Of uniformity in type and color;
the difference in offspring from
usinr thoroughbred as against a
native or scrub sire. The right kind
Of a campaign of education and CO.
operation with the livestock men
ought to, and will in a very few
years, entirely eliminate the scrub.
Those who have been producing
beef cattle for market purposes nat
urally could not afford to buy the
high-priced service animals to use
with their native stock, but with the
supply of thoroughbreds constantly
Increasing there will be a reduction
from prices paid while the supply
was limited, and the thoroughbred
sire will be brought within the reach
OF the average livestock man. By|
conducting campaign of education
with them, showing them the value
OF using purebred sires, they will be
put in the way of increasing their
profits in producing beef for market,
and at the same time providing
market for the increased supply of
the breeders of thoroughbred stock
at a small price for the Individual,
but equally profitable because of
the volume of business.
Tennessee has many advantages
for livestock production not enjoyed
by other states. In the mountainous
sections of the state, where the land
is cheap and the grazing good, the
beef cattle can be produced ready
for finishing, when they can be
brought to the rich valley lands-too
rich and expensive for grazing
where the grains, clover and alfalfa
can be produced for finishing the
animals for the market.
Our mountainous sections could
easily sustain five times the number
OF animals now on them during the
grazing season, which lasts eight
months in the year, and the rich
coves and valleys can produce winter
feed for all the stock necessary to
carry over after disposing of all
ready for finishing on the grains
and feed produced on the rich lands
in the large valleys and Middle Ten
nessee basin.
The possibilities for successful
livestock production in Tennessee
are almost unlimited when our re-
sources are utilized to their capacity.
When we contemplate our possibili-
ties we can not help realizing that
we have hardly made start toward
their utilization.
We are not wanting in opportuni-
ties. The question confronting us
is; Are we going to be progressive
enough to profit by our superior adj
vantages?