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Florida State Live Stock Association
Florida: An Ideal Cattle State
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
Foreword
By W. F. Blackman, Ph. D., LL. D.
POSSIBILITIES OF BEEF PRODUCTION IN FLORIDA.
FORAGE CROPS FOR FLORIDA.
Piney Woods Lands.
Prairie Lands.
Muck Lands.
Hay Plants.
Ensilage Crops.
The Outlook for New Forages.
Kudzu.
Napier Grass.
Metake.
Tripsacum Laxum.
Creeping Pasture Grasses.
FLORIDA AS SEEN FROM A TEXAS STANDPOINT.
A GLANCE BACKWARD AND FORWARD.
FLORIDA SUITED TO EXTENSIVE CATTLE RAISING.
Texas Ranchmen Declare Conditions Ideal for Cattle, Sheep and Goats.
CATTLE RAISING IN FLORIDA.
By A. C. Williams.
Foreword
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By W. F. Blackman, Ph. D., LL. D.
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President of the Florida State Live Stock Association, Member of the Florida State Live Stock Sanitary Board.
Requests for authentic information as to the advantages and possibilities of Florida for the growing of live stock, and in particular of beef cattle, have been coming of late, and in constantly increasing numbers, from all parts of the country.
This booklet has been compiled for the purpose of providing this information.
The gentlemen who have contributed to the volume are men of ability, long and successful experience in the live stock and kindred industries, and the most trustworthy character. Several of them have been engaged for many years in the growing and marketing of cattle on a very large scale in Texas, and have recently made a prolonged and close study of Florida conditions. The report of their findings is of the utmost interest.
Prof. C. V. Piper, agrostologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, is recognized as the foremost authority on Southern grasses and forage crops. We are indebted to him for permission to make use of the valuable address on this important subject which was made by him at the recent annual meeting of the Florida State Live Stock Association.
A study of these papers will make it evident, I believe, that Florida possesses a number of advantages for the profitable growing of live stock greater than those to be found elsewhere; among these are a mild, equable and healthful climate, comparative freedom from animal diseases, a long grazing season, vast areas of cheap lands, a soil adapted to the growing of numerous improved grasses and forage crops (especially such legumes as the velvet bean, the cow pea, the soy bean, the vetches, the indigenous beggar-weed, the peanut, and certain clovers), a copious and well-distributed rainfall, and countless springs, streams and lakes, providing almost everywhere an abundant and unfailing supply of pure water.
There can be no doubt, I believe, that Florida will take a leading place in the near future among the important live stock states of the Union. What she needs is additional thousands of intelligent, energetic, thrifty and experienced farmers, who will take advantage of the opportunities she offers and develop to the full her immense and latent resources.
Lake Monroe, February, 1918.
POSSIBILITIES OF BEEF PRODUCTION IN FLORIDA.
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By Frank S. Hastings, Manager of the S. M. S. Ranch, Stamford, Texas, who spent two weeks studying conditions in Florida just previous to the Sixth Annual Convention of the Florida State Live Stock Association, at which he was one of the speakers. These impressions have been prepared by Mr. Hastings for the benefit of the cattle men of Florida.
Before coming to the State I asked that I might see as many classes of cattle as possible and in as many different parts of the State as possible.
My first trip was through the Everglades. I then made a trip near Gainesville, and visited the registered Hereford herd owned by Mr. N. A. Callison; also the grade herd of both Herefords and Shorthorns owned by Mr. A. L. Jackson of Gainesville, and the pure-bred and graded Shorthorn herd owned by Mr. S. H. Gaitskill of McIntosh. Then followed a four days' careful trip over the properties and herd of the Kissimmee Island Cattle Company, where I saw Brahma cattle, Hereford cattle and Shorthorn cattle in various grades, and their herd of Florida cattle bought last year. Then over the Indian Prairie country, the Osceola prairie country, including Halpatioka Flats, the marsh country of Okeechobee, with an unusually good opportunity for seeing the cattle scattered over the open range and to observe conditions on the open range.
Incident to this great expanse, comprehending over six hundred miles in actual auto driving, I did not see a single windmill, or other artificial means of furnishing water, although I am told that on not a single acre of that entire property is there any difficulty in finding water at a depth of from ten to fifty feet. I shall come back to this item, only pausing here to call your especial attention to the fact that