258 HOME Llt^E IN FLORIDA. 



churches look to the heathen at home first. We want mis- 

 sionaries here if any where on earth." 



No expensive shelter is needed for the stock. There are 

 no losses from cold or starvation as there are every where 

 else, and while the Western stockman feels elated if he 

 loses no more than one third from severe weather alone, 

 the Florida stockman, even with the prevailiDg crude 

 methods, or, more correctly, no methods at all, seldom 

 loses twenty per cent from all causes combined. And yet, 

 in the far West, with all the disadvantages of cold, short 

 feed, bitter storms, and frequent drouths to meet, the cattle 

 men coin fortunes that count by the million of dollars. 



What then, should the Florida raiser, with none of these 

 drawbacks to meet, not be able to do? Already several 

 large ranches are preparing to answer that question. 



And it is not in South Florida alone that a large reve- 

 nue is destined to flow into the State through her cattle 

 ranches, her horses, sheep, and hogs. Northern and Mid- 

 dle Florida, the whole State in fact, is a great natural stock 

 country. Middle Florida, especially, presents the finest 

 possibilities for the raising of stock, and it only needs the 

 introduction of improved methods to make the entire north- 

 ern section of Florida the rival of any section of the United 

 States in the character of its stock. 



Already some of the middle counties are supplying Jack- 

 sonville with butter of excellent quality, and near Talla- 

 hassee, Leon County, the dairy interests have assumed 

 such proportions that a creamery for the more satisfactory 

 manufacture of butter is about to be started. Seventy-five 

 per cent of all the Leon County cattle are grades of thor- 

 oughbred stock. 



And now, before we turn from the subject of the coming 

 style of the Florida cows, a few words with regard to how 

 to treat them. 



