The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-08-05
Opportunities in Tennesses
for Livestock Production
BY T. F. PECK
Commissioner Of Agriculture

Tennessee is rapidly taking her place
10 the forefront as a livestock produc.
ing State. especially in pure bred nerds
to furnish service animals to bring up
the standard of our grade herds for
market purposes.
Financial success is the reward OF
the efforts CT the pioneers in this work,
who have paid fabulous prices for i'm
ported animals to produce thorobred
service animals for distribution among
breeders of thoroughbred and high
grade herds. They are entitled to
their reward, hut in time the p:evail-
Ing high prices for thorOughbreds will
be followed ~ lower prices because of
the increase in numbers in the progeny
Of the thoroughbred herds. There
should be conducted an aggressive
campaign of education among the live
stock men who have been raising
scrubs. Tney could be shown the mop-
ey advantages in feeding high grades
in preference to scrubs, how much
sooner they get their growth, and the
greater return in pounds from the
same quantity of feed; the advantages
eff uniformity in type and color; the
difference in offspring from using a
thoroughbred as against native or
scrub sire. The right kind of cam
paign OF education and cooperation
with the live stock men ought to, and
will 10 few years, entirely eliminate
the scrub.
Those who have been product 6 beef
cattle for market purposes naturally
could not sfford to buy the high priced
service animals to use'with their native
stock, but with the supply Of thorc-i
'breds constantly increasing there will
be reduction from prices paid while
the supply was limited, and the thorou
ghbred sire will be brought within the
reach of the average livestock man
By conducting a campaign of education
with them, showing them the value
OF using pure bred sir s, they will be
put in the way of increasing their pro-
fits in producing beef for market, ind
at the same time providing a market
for the increased supplytf the breeders
of thoroughbred stock, at small price
for the individual. but equally profit
able because OIL the volume OF business.
Tennessee has many advantages for
live stock production not enjoyed by
other States. 10! the mountainous Sec
lions of the State, where the land Is
cheap and the grazing good. the beef
cattle can be produced ready for finch.
ing. when they can be brought to the
rich valley land-too rich and expensive
for grazing where the grains. clover
and alfalfa can be produced for finish
ing the animals for market.
Our mountainous sections could
easily sustain FIVE times the number
Of animals now on them during the
grazing season, which last eight
months in the year, and the rich coves
and valleys can produce winter feed
for all the stock necessary to carry
over after disEosing of all ready for
finishing on the grains and feed pro-
iuced on the rich lands in the valleys
and Middle Tennessee basin.
The possibilities for successful live |
stock production 10 Tennessee are al !
most unlimited when our resources are |
utilized to their capacity. When We
our possibilities we cannot |
islp realizing that We hardly made a
tart towards their utilization.
We are not wanting in opportunities. |
The question confronting us Is; Are
We going to be progressive enough to
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