Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 21, 1913, Page 7

UG, %L, 1913, WHY &% ke Wl - Beans in the pod, wheat bran aud luia. liod, G0u of which are under head of native stock—about one- some 12,0C0 cattle out of that Statm, sorghum sileage were compared vation. tenth of all of those in the State— They are dipped twice—once at the with wheat oran, scrghum si.age, 4is livery stable in town I | but I do not believe there is a dairy- 'shipping point and once at desting~ cotton seed meal. The test showed { with him to one of his|man in the region who is not using tion. This gives the shipper twa that 2.83 pounds of beans in the Several little things feed brought a distance of 1,200 or markets—the feeder and the slaugh+ pod were equal to 1 pound of cot. The nm 1,800 miies, when it ought to be lerer. He had only the latter De~ touseed meal, analyzing 7.5 per All theee larger fore. cent ammonia; that in feeding value refrigerator | The official who tells me thig e+ { for milk production 5,660 pounds ol paid fifty ceuts. “I've mever scen ; plants which should lecsen the 'scribes Florida as a “calf incubes mm-‘lrom any State, provided the work beans in the pcd were equal to 2,000 the t'me,* he said, “when there | dairyman's difficulties. The most tor.” There are approximately; and is done regularly and thoroughly. : pounds of cottonseed meal. The lat- were anywhere near'y enough eggs'formidable of these is the labor. | 800,000 cattls in the State. “Sup= ould ! That is all there is to tick eradica- | ter costs the Florida farmer $30, and chickens in Lais country to go | Dairying Is a 365-day proposition ‘ pose 200,0Q0 calves are droppel an,'tlon 14 ,while 5,660 pounds of beans in the around Tha:'s a western man come each year and it needs a class ot each year,” he says. “At $156—a When these facts are demonstrat- pod can b3 grown for $16.93, a sav- here to raise 'em. He sure knows labor that is mighty scarce all over | ! little more than half the price of the 3 ttlluat[e:d lanlc;rlda should not hehr ability ing of $13.02. how and he's going to make the South. Texas cattle—there is $3,000,008 cu- | to raise forage crops put the whoie | It is one of the few Florida plants money.” Ten minutes late| met | g State upon a better economic basis? i that requires no fertilizer. 'lf pro- i : o s ol g oA Y ittt L e e e . 1 : a man who had been out to his!er: Cat.le feeders in the West and | y last | It would certainly seem so. | duces no green pasture at any time place, and sold him on the spot 250 ; Northwest are making contracts for | | cows.” alian For a money maker the velvet of the year; but it can be forazed In view of this it seems as thouu : bushels of velvet beans at $2.75 & |geveral :ears ahead with Texas Pr. C.!bean Is king of them all. As it from December until spring and, bushel. “What made you give WD | farmers to take the annual crop of | the $5,000 recertly appropriated by Rethod . 'wlll not mature 4 profitable crop ! unlike cowpeas, the vines and \he the trucking game?” 1 asked. calves seven months old, at prlcel",he State to teach the farmers how utruc. of beans, except in the extreme leaves drop together when frost | “Well, sir, I "'was making money ! panging fi 28 head, | small ts use‘louthern portion of the Gulf States, ' strikes them. It is generally more at fit, B i JI AEM M (68 0 d RY | ian, of Georgla, spid: “One disinfec- tion or two disinfectons will not free any premises of ticks. It is fon | much better to disinfect every four. overy | teen days. And from ten to fifteen “one | or sixteen disinfections, beginning 3 tlcks‘ April first of any year, will absolute- fallow | 1y eradicate the tick from any yoft. premises, or from any county, or two farms. hipiened on the way. was a stop at a small poultry farm | | grown at home. to buy .a dozen eggs, for which he towns have ice and i “he replied, *I've shdpped | | depending upon breeding. This' Florida has a practical monopoly in | profitable to sell the beans, for dur- | two trainloads of \atermelons and ! season 200,000 head of cattle will be | Florida is, p:rhlpl, in better finam< ; |the production of this remarkable ing the past five or six years the | cantaloupes out of here in a single | gnippec out of Texas from the tick | clal shape than ;“ other s““‘: y ution? | legum~. And it will go far toward price has ranged more than $3 a season. But this is a good cow coun-l area alone, at approximately m“.4'h° Uniox: SRS GHN S WY W Bm car- l soh:ng the peninsula’s livestock A bushel. It never goes below $1.50. try and I like cattle. There's 800d | prices lar exc'pt to herself. The Legls- soda, | problem—when it is solved. The! Prof. P. H. Rolfs, of the Flor- ! safe money in raisin 'em. Those ; lature mighy appropriate a largen Arrangements have been made by | sum to fight the tick, and enact @ ensive, } 1,500- ithe vats. fun from irmers in h as $150 i thorough preparation, | bushels of beans may be grown and polnt of | Y terinar- i /pfieB o1t to the man who has MONES IN 'in the bank enables you to carry out your s to join youput in an enterprise. without some MONEY OF YOUR OWN; 'with SOME MONEY that is ours; DVISE YOU on business matters, an time, Banking With Us;] lational Bank [LAKELAND ife of Linen ry work is what yoi are leeking for and IMI'-T!!II- { d Steam Laundry [ | 100Week' ' roots, 9.7 pounds. following demonstration will show 'ida Agricultural Experimental what a sofl improver it is: |tlon. makes a partial list given be. Per ial, 21,132 pounds; nitrogen in the in Florida, *heir food elements and vines, 121.5 pounds. T | the station value,which I believe to Per Acre—Weight of dried ma- ' be lower than the average value in terfal, 6,953 pounds; nitrogen in the open market ,at least for this | Past winter, - Protein per 08Nt oo asranes Per Acre—Weight of dried roots, N 690 pounds; total nitrogen in the | crop, 141.2 pounds. Carbohydrates Most of the nodules had decom-| percent. posed and the nitrogen from these | Value was not included. An acre of this| a ton plant plowed under will add as Beggar weed... much ammonia to the soil as 1,900 | Cowpea pounds of cottonseed meal. With ' Velvet bean .... 14 25 to 30 Peanut 13 ! Crowfoot frass.. 8 Crab grass.... Timothy 6 Millet ... 6 19.50 20.25 an even larger crop when planted with corn or sorghum. Cattle do not eat more than 50 per cent of the leaves and vines and nome of the Mexican clover.. 5 19.056 roots; therefore there 1is a large! Of course not all of these food amount of fertility left in the soil| | elements are available for animals, | for the succeeding crops. l since only about a third of the pro- In milk production value the plant tein and half of the carbohydrates ! makes an even better showing. | are digestible, AT Besides these there are Japanese cane, corr and sorghum for silage, Bermuda grass, Natal grass, John- son' grass, Dwarf Essex rare, oats and rye. There are so many good forage crops easily and cheaply grown that the farmer must hard- ly know which to choose. The beggar weed costs next to | nothing. Sow it once and it keeps on coming for years. After taking off a truck crop in the spring one { has only to plow and harrow thor- oughly and it will simply take pos- session of the land. But there’s the rub—plow and harrow thoroughly! { How many Florida farmers do it, when the average is less than half & 2 . o rvclcoms ton of hay for each farm in the | State? Yet plowing these deep, san- dy soils is child’s play compared to breaking up the heavier clay and rocky limestone lands farther north Farmers Who See the Light It takes a little more work for Japanese cane, but there is mo erop gro7n in Florida that will produce 1 such a large yeld of creen forage ,“J{’*’ 7,’ i at such & small cost. making the IR the cattle; they simply “hog it down” from the top—first the green blades, then the tender joints all the way down to the stubble, from which a new crop grows the fol- lowing year—fifteen to twenty.five | on tons. It is easy to cure for dry forage, and it makes cxcellent si- lage. One of the mort remarkable things I saw in thi= country was some Rhodes grass on a farm in Hillsborough county., 'I will not say how many cuttings had been made | from one stand of it, nor how many | 1ineal feet they tot:led. because | 1t sounded incredible. But there it was in a gemi-tropiee! climate, viv- | | 1d, tender green, julcy as blue grass jnnfl growing out of , soil that | looked to be pure sand. Practical- ly all the land in IMorlda—except Try to you the scrub, of course—will produce | luxuriant c¢rops of beggar weed and crab grass after cultivation without fertilizer. Mexican clover is also a volunteer crop. And yet it is es- timated that the cotton crop worth more than $4,000,000 a year, wll ‘not pay half of Florida’s hay bill! Some of this—not all of it—has been experiment station talk. s rule the average farmer looks askance at moot of ft. Once in a while 1 confess to being a Ddit chary of some of it myself. But these are facts, not fiction, started out to find some Florida farmers who are seeing the light, who are in a way rediscovering the country. 1 could not pin the result down to actual figures, because I could not find one who kept any records that were worth a picayune. West Main 0. one whote story I8 worth eketching. His name {8 J. D. McDufty and he lives about two and a haM miles from Ocala, in Marjon county. Mec- Dufly !s a negro who came from lnyhowu‘l“mdmdn- I Acre—Weight green mater- ! low of hays-that can be produced‘ $19.95 | 20.00 19.00 | 19.60 | 20.00 18.65 | finest pasture from November un- til March. Little of it is wasted by As| 8o I ' dueing it he puts at 12 cents a gal. But the first man I ran across was South Carolina to Florida eighteen Sears ago with exactly the same pumber of dollars in his pocket. To- I §ta~V\'el\('t beans help to do the trick. At $2.75 a bushel they more than | double the cost of planting and what little cultivation they need. 1 get the hay nitrogen they leave in the ground, and that cuts my fertilizer bill almost in half. | “This year I am putting 190 acres ! in velvet beans, 125 acres in onls.! 150 acres in corn, 60 acres in pea- nuts and 70 acres in Sea Island cot- ton. I've got only 60 head of cat- tle now, which I am grading up to get a good type of beefsteak., I re. member the time when I'd brag | about a steer that weighed 500 ‘pounds. Now I can raise 'em to ! weigh 700 and 800 easy, and I mean | to raise ’em a good deal bigger. First and last I've bought out nine- teen people, but I want to have a sure enough ranch.” { Doubling the Size of Cattle “How about the money, McDufty; have any trouble getting what you | need from the white folks around | here?” “None at all, sir,”” he replied, af- ter pondering the question a bit. ! “[ reckon the only trouble is that I i can get more than {8 good for me.” And that is one of the most remark- able statements I ever heard coming from one of his race. These native Florida cattle," which are being crossed, are much like the ' dairy brecd as beef producers—they hav not the width and thickness of loin, the full, well-rounded quarter, or the thick, well.covered rib. An avrage nativ would yleld say 240 pounds of dressed meat, while & grade three-year-old, weighing say 800, would dress 450. It has been demonstrated time and again that the first cross of a good grade Here- ford or Shorthorn with the mative cattle will not only nearly double the size of the animal but will near 1y double the amount of dressed beef, provided the animal has plenty of feed, Not only that: In the market the improved, beef is worth from one to two cents more. McDufty has undoubtedly taken Ms cue from %. C. Chambliss nd | others who are making money at straight farming and livestock jn Marion and the sdjacent counties. Mr. Chemblies was one of the first to see the possidilities in bringing pure-bred cattle and hogs into this particular section of Florida. More than 300 cattle have been fattened his farm this past winter, while menl carloads of hogs have been ,lhlpm to Atlanta from Marion county. Mr. Chambliss figures that an acre of velvet beans will put on 1,000 pounds liveweight. He counts the beans a by-product of his rota- tion cystem, and estimates the fertil- Izlng value of the plants as being worth as much as the cost of han. dMing, so that interest on the invest- {ment 13 the only real cost. He I8 | the only Florida farmer I have heard mention the cost of an orig- inal investment and the interest | upon it—and the rate is elght or ten per cent a year at that. There is one man in Central Florida who is taking a stab at the real thing. And he {s making money too. He has 135 acres of land on which he produces two- thirds of his dairy feed—corn and eorghum for silage, velvet beans, eowpeas and crab grass—the rest, bran and shorts, being imported. At present the herd numbers 37 and is being built up of Jerseys and grade arseys-.all Florida and Geor- gla cattle. The average, year in an year out, for each cow has been two gallons a day. The cost of pro- lon, It retalls at 80 cents a gal- lon and he cannot begin to supply the demand. This is the milk situation all over Florida, y~t the game thing ecan be dene almost anywhere In the State—at Tampa, as well as at Galnsville, Ocala, Leesburg er Jack- eonville, Take Tampa, for Instance: There are sl ty-five dairies in and around that eity, which Is fairly Jumping whe~d fn population. Some of the riches lands in the State are adjacent te it Hillsboroueh and Manatee coun- tles alone suppert more than70,000 the Bureau of Animal Indultryl which has two representatives (n | horse-high, Dbull-strong Florida now, for the shipping of tight fonce law. J. P. McCORQUODALE The Florida Avenue Grocer 290——PHONE RED Respectfully asks his friends and the publ generally to give him a call when needing Fresh Meats, Groceries, Vegetables, Etc. 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