The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-17
For Good of
the Community
THE Jersey Cattle Club of Alabama


is holding it's annual meeting in
Birmingham and sale of thoroughbred
stock is to be conducted today. What do
things like this mean? Cattle that pay in
place of cattle that do not pay replace
ment of a losing game by winning one
Speaking of purebred stock the Wall
Street Journal correctly observes:
Scrub live stock is bane to COM
munity. In it's agricultural extension
work the International Harvester
company exhibits chart comparing
the returns from one thoroughbred
dairy cow with ordinary ones-not
scrubs. TIL profits from that one
thoroughbred were equal to forty of
the Others
A survey was made of live stock
conditions in Kansas Result on
farms with thoroughbred stock were
compared with the ordinary stock.
The difference was S16,000,000
year in favor of the thoroughbred
No wonder railroads are taking up the
matter. The railroads thrive or do not
thrive according to the condition of the
communities which they serve So the
illinois Central railroad, for instance, has
about forty thoroughbred beef and dairy
slres which it lends to communities
There is no truer philanthropy than
this, says the Wall Street Journal. 'The
man who invests S25, 900 or more in a
registered bull is a public benefactor
Improvement OF our live stock is matter
of the public welfare"
These members of the Jersey Cattle
club are public benefactors They are
contributing to the farm wealth of their
state by lnculcating and practicing the use
OF the mich cow that produces the most
milk containing the most butterfat. Each
Alabama community where these men
have their purebred Jerseys is the better
off for that fact.
We might we'll do with sheep what we
do with cattle but for the dog. The Wall
Street Journal naively recounts this item:
Congress has been putting tariff
tax of 80 cents pound on wool to
encourage the sheep industry. While
congress was busy pack of worth
less dogs killed seventy-three thor
oughbred Shropshire sheep in Massa-
chusetts, and the owner will go out of
the business
For thirty years the sheep industry
has not increased Farmers could
raise them with profit but for one
drawback-the prowling dogs Of ir-
responsible owners.
Included in the sheep killed in
Massachusetts was a registered
Shropshire ram. Itsvalue was not to
be counted in money large as it was.
It's real value was in the future i'm
provement of neighboring flocks.
But it was sacrificed to make a ours
holiday
The Journal asks this question: 1.-THE
entire people taxed 80 cents pound for
wool are partners with the sheep raisers.
Isn't it time for them to say something?"
The most uphill game which mankind
faces is in doing for his fellow that
which is for his fellows sure benefit. Gus
tom is the hardest-headed thing on earth.
The Jews wanted the flesh pots associated
with their slavery.
Introduction Of purebred cattle has
met the opposition Of the ignorant and
vicious who have destroyed the dipping
watts and falsely charged that the watts
were murderous and inflicted hardship.
Every attempt at purebred sheep raising
has sickened the man making the pioneer
effort
Gradually the vat is arrrocio+od FOR ;+c