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success is as yet unproven. What we need most, in order to get 

 the knowledge really required, are these live stock and forage ex- 

 periment stations, which, in my judgment, present the simplest 

 and cheapest plan to get the information we need and ought to 

 have. I thank you. (Applause.) 



Experiences in Cattle Raising 

 on Cut-Over Lands 



By F. B. Enochs o/Fernwood, Miss. 



The first venture we made in the cattle business, I bought a 

 registered bull on the 13th day of February, 1913. Before that I 

 didn't know how to raise any pedigreed animal intelligently. My 

 endeavor was then to breed up some of my native cattle. We 

 bought considerable native cattle through the country. We made 

 a mistake — and I want to be frank with you on that — we didn't 

 appreciate the fact that this in-bred class of cattle, that had f 'jT''^ .^"" 

 been in-bred for ten years, of the dairy type, were practically Qj.„^gg ^i ^^f. 

 run out and would give us poor results ; but when we picked tie Selected 

 the best of those and began to put pure bred bulls on them 

 to breed them up, we got about the same results as when 

 a man gets a good stallion and breeds him. We have an 

 improvement. Now, those calves that we got, they had a 

 good front and rear end, and the dairy type didn't have that. 

 They were the other extreme — all points. We went into the cattle 

 business under difficulties. We had to pioneer. Certain people in 

 this audience will know that we dipped cattle two years before we 

 could get our county to vote to get rid of the tick, and we had to 

 convince them that dipping cattle would not kill them. After dip- 

 ping that same bunch of cattle for two years we finally got a vote 

 in our county of 81 per cent of the registered voters ; we only had Tick Elimi- 

 19 per cent that voted against it. We have gotten through with ^"^ted as a 

 that end of it and we have gotten rid of the tick, as a result of the '"' "'' 

 pioneering we did in the early history of our cattle endeavor. We 

 have gotten round the fact that we have been going in for pure 

 bred, for the simple reason that there are people in Mississippi that 

 have to be educated to buying good bulls, just like I did ; I didn't 



