LIVE STOCK 



One of Louisiana's greatest needs is more and better live stock, through 

 which to market her native feeding materials and others which may be inex- 

 pensively raised, and help increase and maintain the fertility of her lands, which 

 previously had been more or less depleted through a prevailing system of single 

 cropping. 



Up to the present Louisana has not even approached the point of maximum 

 production, either in food crops or in the number or quality of her live stock, 

 to be able to successfully compete in the metropolitan markets with the more 

 advanced sections of the country. But with her possibilities for greatly increased 

 feed production of almost every variety and with a vastly increased number 

 of animals, especially of the meat producing kinds, it is only a question of time 

 when she will be able to take her place among the most advanced. 



That Louisiana is a live-stock State is proven by .the fact that she already 

 has within her borders representatives of all the modern, improved kinds of 

 farm animals and a great majority of the different breeds, especially in cattle 

 (both beef and dairy) and in hogs; and is in a fair way to become a sheep section, 

 more particularly in the cut-over pine regions. 



No Section of the Country Can Produce Cattle More Cheaply than Louisiana 



Cattle 



The chief obstacle to the successful raising of cattle hitherto has been the 

 presence of the common cattle tick — the carrier of the germ of Texas or Tick 

 Fever — which not only caused the deaths of a considerable percentage of im- 

 ported animals for breeding purposes, and placed a severe check on the develop- 

 ment and production of native stock, but practically closed the Northern markets 

 to her cattle. This state of affairs, however, is virtually a thing of the past, 

 and by the close of 1919 the entire State will be practically tick-free. This 

 means free access to all markets; the elimination of the danger to imported, 

 susceptible cattle; greater development of both beef and dairy stock, and the 

 placing of the State, with her cattle interests, on a par with those that have 

 never suffered from this particular incubus. 



The breeds of beef cattle at present represented in the State are the Shorthorn, 

 Polled Durham, Hereford, Aberdeen Angus, with a few Brahmans in some 

 sections. Of the smaller breeds there are the Devon and Red Poll. 



Of the dairy breeds there are the Jersey, Guernsey and Holstein mainly. 

 The dairy industry is being developed to quite a large extent in sections easily 

 accessible to the larger cities and towns and convenient to lines of transportation. 



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