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The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 



Percheron 

 Mares Suc- 

 cessfully 

 Grown in the 

 South 



Two - Year - 

 Old Hereford 

 Steer Sells for 

 $123.50 to the 

 Butcher 



number of animals purchased and handled and the manner in 

 which they have been disposed of has been kept on the College 

 farm since the work was first started. This will give some idea 

 of what can be done on a farm organized along the lines indi- 

 cated. What has been done here can be done by hundreds of 

 other farmers who will make the business of live stock breeding 

 a specialty and study the various problems involved therein in 

 an intelligent manner. It is worth while noting that while 

 $1,075.95 was spent for the purchase of live stock each year, the 

 annual sales amounted to $1,491.98, and the average net yearly 

 increase in the inventoried value of the live stock to $1,710.33. 

 This is a line of activity which the young men of the South 

 should engage in, and everyone who has the welfare of this sec- 

 tion of the country at heart or who is concerned about reducing 

 the cost of living or supplying our markets with an abundance 

 of choice meat and dairy products will lend his encouragement 

 to the promotion of this industry. 



It has been thought by many that Percheron mares could 

 not be maintained successfully in the South. On January 1, 

 1911, a team of grade mares was purchased by the College of 

 Agriculture for $470.00. They have done the same amount of 

 work as any team of mules would have performed in the past 

 six years. Colts to the value of $1,137.50 have been sold from 

 them already and there is a filly on hand worth $100.00, making 

 the gross return from these two animals $1,237.50, or more than 

 two and a half times their original purchase price. In the mean- 

 time they have earned their board and keep. The man who can- 

 not keep Percheron mares on his farm should not attribute it to 

 climatic or soil conditions, but to carelessness in the matter of 

 feeding and general management. 



That our beef industries can be rapidly and profitably built 

 up is illustrated by the fact that a long 2-year-old grade Here- 

 ford steer weighing 1,450 pounds was recently sold to an Athens 

 butcher at 8.5 cents a pound net, or for $123.50 cash. This steer 

 was two crosses removed from a native cow that cost $17.00. It 

 took a little over six years to produce him. When slaughtered 

 he dressed out 64 per cent of valuable meat. He cost the butcher 

 11 cents a pound dressed. The same butcher purchased a car- 

 load of steers at 5.5 cents. They cost him hung up on the hooks 

 10.75 cents a pound, but the high-grade Hereford steer sold for 

 5 cents a pound more all around, and hence he was a far more 



