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The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 



Better Grades 

 of Cattle 

 Needed in 

 South 



What Georgia Is Doing to 



Encourage the Utilizing of 



Cut-Over Lands 



By John R. Fain 



Agronomist of the College of Agriculture of the 

 State of Georgia 



Gentlemen, I am with you today because President Soule, of 

 our institution, was detained at home on account of a campaign 

 we are carrying on in Georgia at this time. He asked me to ex- 

 press to you his regret at not being able to be present. 



I would like to say to you that our institution is represented 

 because we thought this was one of the big constructive pieces 

 of work being undertaken in the Southern states. I will try to 

 present to you as briefly as I can some of the things that the 

 College of Agriculture is trying to help in development. 



We fancy that the College of Agriculture should be some- 

 thing of a clearing house for information * for the people of the 

 state, and that we should get together that information for them 

 and be able to present it to them, and we bring it to your atten- 

 tion as some of the work we are trying to do. Therefore, I am 

 going to use a few charts I have here for this purpose. 



These figures were compiled from census reports and from 

 estimates by President Soule. I am not going to take your time 

 up to any great extent. We have a considerable number of live 

 stock in the South ; but the principal trouble is its quality and 

 low value ; and I might use these figures from the State of 

 Georgia. I will say that in the fifteen Southern states^ in the 

 six years from 1910 to 1916, the beef cattle decreased something 

 like three-quarters of a million. It struck me, in listening to the 

 discussion! yesterday, that a great many of those cattle could 

 have been maintained on some of the seventy-odd million acres 

 of land in this country. 



Now, outside of the quality there is another factor, and that 

 is loss from disease and exposure in these Southern states. 

 Take the state of Georgia. We believe in presenting to the peo- 



