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The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 



Impracticable 

 to Combine 

 Cattle Raising 

 and Forestry 



Confident of 

 Ultimate Suc- 

 cess of Work 



itable live stock industry — the cattle industry I am thinking of, 

 particularly.. When it comes to the hog industry, I think it has 

 already been demonstrated in these sandy loam areas that by the 

 use of peanuts, velvet beans, soy beans and others, you can con- 

 duct a profitable hog industry; but this is a relatively intensive 

 type of farming as compared with cattle raising. 



The question has been brought up a number of times as to 

 what extent live stock farming in the South, particularly cattle 

 raising, and forestry, may be conducted together. I do not think, 

 myself, that the idea is very feasible. Over most of these sandy 

 loam soils if you don't burn the woods every year or so it comes 

 up thickly in young pines. If you do burn it, you get your grounds 

 cleared, but of course, you burn off your second growth. One 

 gentleman, a few years ago, complained about the number 

 of young pines that grew up in his pasture, and he wanted to 

 know what to do. An expert advised him that they were very 

 good pasture for piney woods cattle. He wanted to know the 

 advantage of them. The expert replied : "Well, you see, the cows 

 eat more or less of those young pines, and the effect of it is to 

 shrink their stomachs, and therefore there is less danger of the 

 cow starving to death." (Laughter.) 



Now, I want to recapitulate briefly and emphasize the main 

 points of this problem. So far as growing reasonably large 

 crops of forage on these sandy loam soils, using a judicious 

 amount of fertilizer, there is in my opinion no question. There is 

 a pretty serious problem as to how practicable it is to take poor 

 broom sedge and wire grass pasture and gradually convert it 

 into good carpet grass pasture. I don't know how it can be 

 speeded up. We need investigations, very seriously on that par- 

 ticular point. We don't know, after the carpet grass pasture 

 is obtained, just how well cattle are going to succeed on it. 

 There is reason to believe, however, that the results will be satis- 

 factory. But it will be necessary to supplement this by some 

 other feed. However, that is commonly done in the North and 

 other pasturing regions. 



I want to close by saying that in general the whole situation 

 of the live stock enterprise, at least from the standpoint of grow- 

 ing the forage crops, looks to me decidedly optimistic. I want to 

 repeat again that until we have demonstrated knowledge to show 

 this to be a fact, we cannot conscientiously advise farmers to 

 go into this thing unless they understand fully that certainty of 



