Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-10

ing its tremendous crop Of grape
49, fruit and oranges 20 produce milk
butter and other dairy products,
pon't expect 10 see pictures Of gla
worous bathing beauties milking or
anCe and grapefruit trees. old bossi'
stin PLAYS an important role m th'
milk production But II has been Dis
covered that the pulp Of citrus fruits
can be dried and ground up TO make
a nutritious and valuable feed for mich
COWS and beef cattle.
Cattle IN Florida Most people don't
know that the Sunshine state ranks
second only 10 Texas as Cattle-raiS-
ing section over 1900 600 head on
cattle roam wide and fertile ranges m
Florida's Panhandle which IS M the
center Of the state around kisslmmee
and Arcadia
Nor go many Americans know that
The colorful Seminole Indian cowboys
are comparable with the famed eau
chos of the Argentine. That's because
most Northern visitors 20 Florida stick
To the resort towns and the Gold Coast
To native Floridians cattle If old
stuff and a huge industry. They know
the famed Arcadia rodeo and the Flor
ida cowpuuchers who resemble their
Western brethren in every part of their
costume except the chaps Florida
COWBOYS wear high boots instead as
protection against snakes.
But even Florida natives may not
know that a whole new dairy industry
is coming into being by a process like
raising ones self by the hoot-straps
The tremendous yield of citrus fruits
IN Florida means that a large part of
tho crop cannot be marketed Even
with much canning Of grapefruit and
oranges. and their juices, 1t is esti-
mated that about two-thirds is lost
in some years, and the canneries have
a huge disposal problem in just get
ting rid Of the pulp, rind and seeds
after the juice and meat" have been
extracted and canned.
Somebody wondered if this
tremendous waste of citrus
fruit pulp could not be util- a..
lied in some way Scientists
Z. r. Dix Arnold, Dr. K.
=. Becker and DR. w.
NJ. Neal of the Florida State
Agricultural station at
Gainesville recently reported
that by actual test the dried
citrus pulp is just as high IN
nutritive value as dried beet
pulp which has been widely
used as a cattle feed for many
years in other sections of the
country Most important, they
tested mich COWS fed on the
grapefruit and orange feed
diet and found that their milk
production held up both in
quantity and quality
They could find no indica-
ton that the slightly bitter taste of
the feed was impaired to the milk as
some people had suggested might
happen
Based on preliminary reports of this
work more than $4,000 tons Of dried
citrus pulp was processed as a cattle
feed last year by plants in the central
part of Florida This year a dozen
new processing plants are going up
and a new industry seems booming
Cattle came 20 Florida with the
first Spaniards some $50 years ago and
todays basic strain stems from the
scrawny descendants Of these Spanish
bovine f0rebears.
The old time Florida cattle were
ragged-looking, tough TO eat and not
good milk-producers because they were
infested with wood ticks that sucked
their life blood and kept them always
on the verge Of illness.
But since 1880 Federal and state
scientists have virtually eradicated this
tick To do this it was necessary TO
kill off all the native wild deer in the
State for II was found that they har-
bored the ticks and spread them from
one center Of infoStation 10 another.
simultaneously the cattle men dipped
their herds in antiseptic baths 20 kill
the ticks
Now that the danger from ticks Is
nearly past new deer are being freed
in Florida to rcstock the population
so that IL will soon return TO normal
with ono exception, the deadly ticks
viii be absent
Along with these destroying
measures the tick menace has been
further reduced by cross-breeding the
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