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Title: Livestock farming in Florida along the lines of the Florida east coast railway..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Florida east coast railway company
Subjects: Livestock
Publisher: Saint Augustine, Fla., Land and industrial dept. of the Florida east coast railway (Flagler system)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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supplied. Burning the grass annually isbad in itself, but persistence in it destroys the fertility of the soil. In spite of these deterrents the cattle business in Florida has beenand is very profitable, and in the past year forty thousand to fiftythousand head have been shipped out of the state, principally tothe feeding pens of Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas. Pasture SINCE all flesh is grass, the question of raising good beefprofitably in Florida, in its last analysis, will depend uponwhether we can or do have good, cheap pastures.This article does not undertake to discuss the subject as regardsthe state at large, nor all qualities of land, but only the flatwoodsand prairies, more particularly that section lying between the Kis-simmee River on the west, and the St. Johns and Indian Rivers onthe east, on which great herds of cattle have fed for the past fifty = Page twelve rillllllliii 11 inmii irrrrm mini iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii mil iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii mi iniiiiiiira
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Cowpunchers on Tosohatcbee Ranch, Seminole Connty years. These lands are very fertile, notwithstanding man has in-terfered to his own injury and by annual fires has burnt up thevegetable matter and prevented the accumulation of humus withits precious content of nitrogen, the expensive ingredient of allfertilizer. Fortunately, fire could not destroy the potash and phos-phoric acid, and on the level sandy soil it has not been washed away. The present abundant growth of grass, weeds, shrubs and flowersprove the fertility of the soil and the long season of nine or tenmonths, in which vegetation grows, is sufficient for nature to restorethe loss. This long season, with an average rainfall of sixty inches,gives ample time in which to grow improved grasses and manyfeed crops. At present the tick infested cattle find abundant feed and thrivefrom the middle of March until the middle of December and oftenlater. It is really only during January and February that stockcattle need any help, on acc

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