2 BULLETIN 762, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
the cattle from the tick-free sections of these States go to the St. 
Louis market, where they are sold in the free pens in direct competi- 
tion with the cattle from the corn belt. The cattle from the tick- 
infested sections of these States go largely to New Orleans, the 
Louisiana cattle go to New Orleans, Fort Worth, and St. Louis, and 
the cattle from Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina are 
shipped to the Eichmond, Baltimore, Jersey City, and Jacksonville, 
Fla., markets. The new stockyards and packing plant at Jackson- 
ville, Fla., will receive many of the Florida and some southern Georgia 
cattle, while a few may still be exported to Cuba from Tampa. 
Fig. 1. — The shaded area represents the portion of the United States to which the 
results obtained in the feeding experiment are applicable. The circles in Alabama 
and Mississppi show the approxmate location of the test farms. The location of 
the various cattle markets to which southern cattle are shipped is shown also. 
Packing plants at Natchez, Miss., Birmingham, Ala., Moultrie, Ga., 
and Jacksonville, Fla., are having a stimulating effect on the live- 
stock industries in those sections, and this influence will grow, in pro- 
portion to the prices paid for live stock. If prices are paid which 
compare favorably with those the farmer can get at other available 
markets less the cost of shipping, then, and only then, will the es- 
tablishment of such plants exert a permanent influence for good upon 
the live-stock industry of those sections. 
