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know any difference between a good heifer, even if she had a 

 register paper, and a poor heifer. 



Most people concede that you can take a human family of ten 

 and you can find a black sheep among them. We shipped to Okla- 

 homa this spring, with our herd of show cattle, some Herefords, 

 and they sold for an average of $300, and they were not yet breed- 

 ing age. We sold some Herefords in Ft. Worth, Texas, for as 

 high as $450, not yet of breeding age. That is our pure bred cattle. 

 At the this year's sale in Jackson, iMiss., we sent three heifers and 

 one bull up there that really we ought not to have sacrificed — that 

 we ought to have kept. We took them up there to help out the 

 sale, and they sold for from $175 to $195, and most of them were 

 April calves, 1916. Now I don't know a man in Missouri but what 

 is willing to sell a year-old mule for less money than $175. The 

 disadvantage we were under was that we didn't know the stock 

 business. We were green at it when we started ; as green as could 

 be. Why? We were lumbermen. We had been engaged ever since 

 we were boys in running a sawmiill and other lines of endeavor ; 

 but the position we took was this: Looking forward to the time 

 when we arecut out, that settlement will be a desert sawmill set- 

 tlement unless we do what we are doing there, and that is to. es- 

 tablish the cattle business. The most good fortune I have had is 

 to find a man who knew how to handle that cattle business. I 

 spent more money advertising for a man to take care of that de- 

 partment than any other department. When I got a man from 

 the North he didn't know Southern conditions, labor and rainfall. 

 He didn't know winter conditions here, and we have gradually 

 had to take those that came to us ; but today, in my judgment, I 

 am not sorry I went into the cattle business, and if the State of 

 Mississippi and the Southern States will get around this point on 

 these lands — that they get rid of this in-bred class of cattle and 

 grow some good cattle to put into the feed-pen — it will give you 

 some return for your feed. The class of cattle called the "scrub" 

 isn't going to give you any return for your feed. We have 

 built silos and filled them to the extent of 2,700 tons of ensilage 

 in one year. We have not only corn ensilage, but we have 

 grown as many as 14,000 bushels of oats in one season. We 

 also grow lespedeza. Professor Lloyd was there three years 

 ago and he said he didn't know the cut-over hill soils of South 

 Mississippi would grow lespedeza after oats. It was an enlight- 

 enment to him. 



