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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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to rustle his suste-nance on the range. Mr. Gaitskill has observed in his experience ofseveral years that the sire of the herd should not only have goodcare but that breeding should be done systematically. Read whathe says: Mcintosh, Florida, June 26th, 1914. Mr. J. E. Ingraham, Vice-President,Florida East Coast Railway Company,St. Augustine, Florida. Dear Sir: In response to your letter of June 24th, I will simply write you some-thing of my experience and my opinion as to the future of the cattleindustry in Florida. Should you find anything that you can use,you can condense and cut out and use such parts of my letter asyou may consider of value. Page eighteen fannm Hum li i mini 1U.UJJLL1 LUJJJILUJJ LO LTLTUIUJiUJ Hlllllllllllllhilllllllll I nniminllillillllllllllllin I II I Iliilillll IIIMIII I FLORIDA EAST COAST RAT L WAYejimiiiii miiiiiiiiiiiii i 11111111111111111111 m ii i»111111 m m :; r: t m 11 m m t t n n uitjj Ltiuui mitTn 11 n 11 t i iTiriiiiJjjjJiiiJ^xazrxjjj^njXLLLOxnxEC
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Bermuda Grass at Melbourne, Brevard County I have now been breeding and fattening cattle in Florida for tenyears. I started with the native cow and used Shorthorn bulls.Now I have cattle that would not disgrace the blue grass pasturesof Kentucky. I have tried hard to get Florida cattlemen to use better beef bloodin breeding, but it is up-hill work. Some have not been uniformlysuccessful for two reasons: First, the beef bull is not as active asthe Florida native, and when turned out on the range, the nativebull sires the greatest percentage of the calves. The large beef bullsshould never be put on the range with other bulls, if a reasonablecrop of calves is expected that will show the blood of the beef bull. The second fault found with the better bred bulls when put on therange is that no thought is taken as to his size and the amount offeed that he must consume to maintain that size and make growth.A large bull on a sparse range will take a good part of his time togather enough feed t

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