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MISSISSIPPI CATTLE BRING HIGHEST MARKET PRICE. 
Sold at National Stock Yards for $2.50 Per Hundred More Than 
Texas Cattle—Experiment Conducted by Prof. Lloyd of the 
A. & M. College Nets a Profit of More Than 60 Per 
Cent and Demonstrates What Can Be Done. 
National Stock Yards, Il, April 29.—Cattle fed at the Missis- 
sippi Agricultural College brought a higher price at the St. Louis 
National Stock Yards today than has ever before been paid for 
Mississippi cattle for slaughtering purposes. 
Ordinary Mississippi steers, fed 150 days on hulls, cotton seed 
meal and five pounds of hay per day, sold at $8.50 per hundred 
weight, which is 15 cents higher than the top price at Kansas City to- 
day for best native beef steers and $2.50 per ewt. higher than Texas 
grassers brought on this market today. Professor E. R. Lloyd, of 
the Mississippi Agricultural College, experimental station at Oktib- 
beha County, Mississippi, says in an interview published tonight un- 
der double head lines that this achievement of Mississippi cattle dis- 
pels the idea that the cattle of that state are fit only for grassing; 
his statement attracting much attention here because a report was 
printed in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat yesterday that the Louis- 
jana corn crop now amounted to more than the cotton crop, being 
worth $35,000,000 and thus indicating to the people of this section 
that Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas can duplicate 
the experience of Missouri and Illinois in raising corn and produc- 
ing corn-fed live stock that will bring the value of land in that sec- 
tion to the same level it is here. During the past ten years corn fed 
live stock in these two states have doubled farm land values, bring- 
ing them to a total of five million dollars, but the corn crop in this 
vicinity was very poor last year and native cattle are consequently — 
searce and high. 
Professor Lloyd makes no mention of crop and food for Missis- 
sippi cattle, but compares the diferent rations of cotton seed meals 
and hulls, adding hay to this in some instances, silage in others. 
The total investment in the four lots of twelve head each was $2,104.- 
49, the total profits $1,235.09, or over 60 per cent. This equals the 
record made by the Tennessee Agricultural College, which sold cat- 
tle fed at its western Tennessee station,at this market, about ten days 
ago. Professor Lloyd is quoted as follows, in an interview in the 
St. Louis National Live Stock Reporter, tonight: 
‘We made this experiment to show the farmer and live stock 
dealers in Mississippi that our native cattle could be fed at a profit 
and to try and break up the general belief that Mississippi cattle are 
only fit to graze. I fed four different bunches and the following 
figures will show that it certainly will pay the Mississippi farmer to 
feed his cattle. The top drove of steers cost me as feeders $556.87. 
I fed them for 150 days on hulls, cotton seed meal and five pounds 
of hay per day, this feed costing me $270.90; by selling at $8.50 per 
ewt. the gross price received was $1,170.45, which leaves a profit of 
