Twenty-Thousand -Dollar Hereford Bull on a Mississippi Stock Farm 



Railroads or lumber companies in many instances have furnished dairymen 

 the free service of approved pedigreed bulls. Many communities have organized 

 bull associations, the associations purchasing or replacing bulls of high-bred 

 standards for community use. 



Cattle 



During the years 1917 and 1918 the United States and State Agricultural 

 Departments, in order to save hundreds of thousands of cattle from death by 

 reason of drouth in the West and Southwest and meet urgent war needs, influenced 

 the transfer of many great herds from the Southwest into the grass of the cut-over 

 lands in Mississippi. The experiment in the main proved highly successful and 

 thus the stamp of approval was placed upon cut-over lands as the coming range 

 country for cattle. The better business method with cattle is to acquire native 

 stock and cross breed to pedigreed animals until you have built up to half and 

 three-quarter standards. Adopting this plan, it works out that you acquire a 

 herd at a low initial cost and economically build up to high-priced animals which 

 become big profit producers. It is highly significant that there are now stock 



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