The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1922-03-03
TENNESSEE CAN Be MADE
THE STOCKMAN'S PARADISE
Commissioner Peck Recommends Cat
tie Raising and Diversifcation

CIt ndlSluS auu OlVc1SAHCdt1OH
Agriculture throughout the entire
country is facing serious problems
The complaint about prevailing low
prices for farm products is familiar
cry. Cotton farmers of the South
have been hurt by the low prices
their product has been bringing, and
added to this, they are having to
combat the boil weevil. They realize
that they must diversity their crops
so as to have something besides cot
ton As money producer. Many OF
them are considering live stock pro
duction as an industry.
For cattle raising the South has
many advantages that other sections
do not have, and now is an opportune
time for the Southern farmers to take
up this industry more extensively, as
tbs big ranges of the West are dis
appearing, the land boing devoted to
the production of grain crops. We
have an abundance of pure water in
the South, and especially in Tennes-
see. Much of our land is not Suita-
BILE for extensive grain farming with
heavy farm machinery, but it is well
suited for growing grasses and the
best of hay, while the bottom lands
can produce the grain crops for local
consumption. We are in easy dis
tance of the meat consuming renters.
No more practicable or profitable
method of restoring fertility to the
soil can be practiced than growing
live stock, beef and dairy cattle.
The State has been for some years
free from the cattle tick, and the
work of bovine tuberculosis eradica-
tion is we'll under way. The pure
breds, both in the beef and dairy
breeds, are rapidly taking the place
of the scrubs. The experience of our
breeders who have gone into the
L
world shows what cur State can pro-
duce. Any one who questions our
ability to produce as good as the best
anywhere has only to go to the big
State fairs to be convinced that ma
ture has been liberal in her pro-
vision in Tennessee for the cattle in
dustry.
Our climatic conditions are most
favorable. We have fine grazing
lands and our soils will grow a wide
range of forage and grain crops. Ten
nessee can, in truth, be made "the
paradise" With the
right kind of live stock associations,
our live stock can be marketed to ad-
vantage. Those engaged in agricul-
pursuits have been slow to
appreciate the benefits of co-opera-
i've escort, but they are now rapidly |
up.
If we fail to develop the live stock
industry, especially cattle raising, in
he State, we will be doing an injus-
ice % our soils, neglccting God-giv-
N advantages for the industry.
While in Washington in attend
nee on the farm conference, l was
erving on the subcommittee on dali
ying. c. w. Larson, chief of the
AIRY division, gave the percentage
# pure-bred bulls to the herds of
attic in various States, ranging from
ne to six herds, the best reported,
o an astonishingly large number of
erds to one pure-bred bull. Tennes-
ee was reported as having only one
ure-bred bull to every 121 herds.
is hard to believe that this condi-
ion is true, but we are not in posi-
on to refute the statement
With all our natural advantages
or cattle raising, we cannot afford to
low such record as that to stand S
gainst us. The advantages of rails I
lg pure-bred and high grade cattle c
re unquestioned. Prices of pure Y
red bulls are not prohibitive. They
re reasonable, and we owe it to our a
Ives and the cattle raising industry S
lat can be made to mean so much to b
; in financial way, to without de- Ii
y inaugurate a campaign for the
iminati6n OF the scrub bull, in fact
rub service OF all kinds.
We have the best favored section '
the country for the profitable pro- j
Iction of live stock. Let us prove 81
at we have the capacity to profit a
: the favors and advantages so eC
bestowed on US. We will v
unjust to ourselves and to The fu- rt
re if we fail to profit by our great Ia
tural advantages for the Droduc- b.
IN of live stock of all kinds. cC