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had favorable seasons in which we have grazed as low as five 

 acres, but we wouldn't do it when we have the extremes of the 

 season. 



Mr. Gilbert : On a ten-acre basis that would only carry 700. 



Mr. Enochs : Well, we have rented some of these grazing 

 areas that other people are not willing to put cattle on. You asked 

 me how much we had. 

 Lespedeza Dr. Piper : You run ten acres to the cow ? 



Solves Pastiir- Mr. Enochs : Yes. 



age Problem Y)r, Piper: Is that the ordinary piney woods pasture? 



Mr. Enochs : That is the ordinary piney woods stump land. 



Dr. Piper : Is that pasture improving under your system of 

 pasturage ? 



Mr. Enochs: Yes, sir. It is going to lespedeza now. Before 

 that, the fires would destroy the lespedeza and then we only had 

 the wire grass, but now the lespedeza is gradually getting hold of 

 this land, and the cattle graze it close enough so there is little 

 chance for broom grass growth. 



Dr. Piper: Is the carpet grass coming in, too? 



Mr. Enochs : Some, but not so much on hillsides. They do 

 on these flat lands that don't get the water off. The flat lands are 

 what we call top table lands. We don't consider we have made 

 any money on the proposition, but we were in the business pos- 

 sibly three years before we saw a profit, because we didn't know 

 the line. 



Dr. Piper : How many acres of feed are you growing to an 

 animal ? 



Mr. Enochs : That is hard to answer, because we are feeding 

 log teams and turpentine teams out of the same enclosures. 

 Growing Feed ^r. Piper : You are growing an ample amount, evidently, to 



for the Cattle supplement your pastures? 



Mr. Enochs : Well, not in the sense of the man in the North, 

 because a man in the North frequently, when a dry spell comes, 

 has two or three silos of ensilage to supplement his cattle in the 

 summer grass growing season, when the hot sultry suns burn up 

 the grass. We have not gotten around to the point that we have 

 been able to carry everything. We went most too heavy on 

 cattle for the experience we have. 



