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Florida: An Ideal Cattle State
Florida State Live Stock Association
Cattle -- Florida
There is, therefore, a very wide range of possibilities in your breeding
problem, all of it pointed upward, and there may be something in your
experience here which will show that the Shorthorn and Black have a
greater mission on the open range than they had in Texas. There
certainly can be no question about the value of the blood.
And here I might add that the Government is not asking any one to
increase beef production from a patriotic standpoint, but rather that it
offers a splendid investment. And perhaps I might add that when our boys
who have gone into the army come back again they will practically all
be trained athletes; men seasoned to the out-of-doors and loving it; men
who have obtained an earnestness in life and a new vision as to
usefulness, and when you stop to reflect that we have been sending the
flower of the world to the front, when it comes back to us we will not
only have the attributes I have described, but the flower of the world
to apply them, and I look for an increased interest in all of the
out-of-door lines of business such as America has never seen before.
I thought I knew something of my own country and something of the
possibilities of land available for cattle production, but seeing your
ranges has been a revelation. They are off the track of the tourist.
There is sparse settlement, and they are known to very few. In fact,
they might be, in a sense, called a hidden country, but the whole of
America is interested in everything that offers a good agricultural or
stock-raising possibility, and when our boys come back, not only the
boys of the South, but the boys of America are going to investigate your
properties.
I promised to come back to water development. Practically every question
that I have asked in the main about water has been covered by the reply,
"Water everywhere." Much of your area is watered by rivers and lakes,
and where good surface water is not easily available for stock, your
well water is so easily obtainable and at such small investment you can
afford to have it every two miles over the entire country.
I am told that the windmill will furnish ample production, and at that
narrow depth the light mills, which go well in a light wind, are
available. We have found it very valuable, however, to use the one and a
half horsepower gasoline engines, and from that pumping supply as our
live stock demanded, because you must keep water constantly before the
cattle. Cattle become accustomed to watering at one place, and if there
is no water they will stand around and wait for the mill to pump.
Without attempting to go into details, you should have a proper water
storage at each mill. It is small expense, and with a storage tank and a
windmill it would be cheaper than a gasoline engine.
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