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MISSISSIPPI LIVE STOCK SANITARY BOARD

Laws, Rules and Regulations

GOVERNING THE CONTROL
AND EXTERMINATION OF |

Contagious, Infectious and Communicable
Diseases of Live Stock in Mississippi.

Issued under Authority Conferred by the Acts of the
Legislature of 1908, 1910 and 1912.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

H. E. BLAKESLEE, Chairman, Jackson,
Commissioner of Agriculture.

R. L. SHIELDS, Secretary, Agricultural College.
Professor of Animal Husbandry.

E. M. RANCK, Veterinarian, Agricultural College.
Professor of Veterinary Science.

HON. EARL BREWER, Governor, Jackson.\:
HON. ROSS COLLINS, Attorney General, Jackson.
J. M. ALDRICH, Michigan City.

J. M. TAYLOR, Port Gibson.

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Number and Value of Live Stock in Mississippi January 1, 1912.
Value Per Head Aggregate Value

Mileh COWS coco 443,000 $23.50 $10,410,500.00
Other Cattle 00. 566,000 10.00 5,660,000.00
Total Cattle ........1,009,000 Total Value ...........$16,070,000.00

ERADICATE THE TICK.
DISCARD THE SCRUB CATTLE.
USE ONLY PUREBRED BULLS.

A SPLENDID MISSISSIPPI ANIMAL RAISED FREE FROM TICKS.

The Number and Value of Live Stock in Mississippi January 1, 1922,

Should Be:
yn os Value Per Head Aggregate Value
© Mileh Cows oi cocceee 800,000 $45.00 $36,000,000.00
4 Other Cattle 1,000,000 25.00 25 000,000.00

“Total Cattle 1,800,000 Total Value.............. $61,000,000.00
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1.—Counties and parts of counties from which the tick has been cleared

and the U. S. quarantine raised.

No. 2.—Counties in which the actual work of tick eradication has been put
in force by the supervisors co-operating with the State and Federal gov-
ernments. In these counties the quarantine is in full force and the
work of cleaning up progressing. ‘

No. 3.—Counties in which the supervisors have appropriated money for the

construction of dipping vats and are co-operating with the State and.
Federal governments in preliminary work.

. 4—Counties in which co-operation from local authorities has not been

secured, iat in some of these, preliminary work has been inau--

gurated.

LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

PAGE 96, CHAPTER 106, H. B. NO. 218.

AN ACT créating a Live Stock Sanitary Board, specifying who shall consti-
tute the same, fixing compensation for services of the members, delegat-
ing powers and authority for regulating live stock matters and the right
to establish and maintain quarantine lines, prevent the introduction and
spread of the Texas or tick fever, appoint inspectors and officers for the
enforcement of regulations.

State Live Stock Sanitary Board to Be Established—How Con.
stituted.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Mississippi, That from and after the passage of this Act and its ap-
proval by the Governor, a State Live Stock Sanitary Board be, and
is hereby, established to consist of the Commissioner of Agriculture
and Commerce, who shall be ex-officio chairman of the same; the
Professor of Animal Husbandry at the Agricultural College, who
shall be secretary of the same; the Professor of Veterinary Science at
the Agricultural and Mechanical College, who shall be State Veteri-
narian; and in addition to these two other members who shall be
appointed by the Governor as representative of the live stock breed-
ers of the state to serve for four years or until their successors have
been duly appointed and qualified.

Official Headquarters to Be in Jackson.

Sec. 2. The official headquarters of the Board shall be in Jack-
son, but it may hold its meetings at such time and places as a ma-
jority of the members may select and conditions demand. Three
members will constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
A meeting of the Board may be called by the Secretary upon the
written request of two members. Members of the Board not receiv-
ing a salary from the state otherwise shall be paid five ($5.00) dollars
per day while attending the meetings and en route to and from,
and all members shall receive their necessary traveling expenses
while so engaged. The State Treasurer shall pay such amounts upon
warrants drawn by the Secretary and approved by the Chairman
from any funds to the credit of the Board.

Board to Have Absolute Power to Deal With Infectious Diseases of
Animals.

Sec. 3. That said Board shall have plenary power to deal with
all contagious and infectious diseases of animals as in the opinion
of the Board may be controlled, prevented or eradicated, and with
full power to make, promulgate and enforce such rules and regula-
tions as in the judgment of the Board may be necessary to control,
eradicate, and prevent the introduction and spread of Texas or tick
fever and the fever carrying tick (Boophilus Annulatus,) and all
other diseases of animals in the state.

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Penalty for the Violation of This Act or Hindering Officer in Dis-
charge of His Duty.

Sec. 4. That any person, firm or corporation violating any of
the provisions of this Act or interfering with any duly appointed of-
ficer of this Board, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined upon
conviction thereof not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars and not more
than three hundred ($300). dollars, and shall also be liable to any
person injured for any and all damages resulting from such viola-
tions.

Penalty for Driving or Transporting Infected Animals Into This
State.

Sec. 5. That any person, firm or corporation driving, convey-
ing or transporting from any other state or territory into or through
this state, or moving within this state, animals known to be infected
with the infection of a contagious or communicable disease, contrary
to the rules and regulations of this Board, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor and upon conviction thereof subject to a fine of not more
than five hundred ($500.00) dollars or imprisonment in the county
jail not to exceed six months or both at the discretion of the court.

Board Authorized to Maintain Quarantine Lines.

Sec. 6. That this Board be, and the same is hereby vested with
full authority to establish and maintain quarantine lines and to ap-
point as many inspectors as may be deemed necessary and the funds
at its disposal will permit, and to delegate authority to said inspec-
tors to enter premises, to inspect and disinfect live stock and prem-
ises, and enforce quarantine including counties, farms, pens and
stables.

Board Authorized to Obtain Aid From the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.

Sec. 7. That this Board be vested with authority to appoint as its
inspectors representatives of the United States Department of Agri-
culture, and to accept from the United States government such as-
sistance, financial and otherwise, for carrying out the purposes of
this Act as may be available from time to time.

Secretary of Board to Make Itemized Report Each Year to the
Governor.

Sec. 8. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of this Board
to make on or before the tenth day of January each year an itemized
statement of all expenditures to the Governor of the State, and bien-
nially to the Legislature within ten days from date of convening, a
full and complete report of all actions, disbursements, ete.

Sec. 9. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the pro-
visions of this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed; and that
this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 20th, 1908.

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HOUSE BILL NO. 11.

AN ACT to authorize the Boards of Supervisors in the various Counties to
appropriate monies out of the General County Fund to be used in co-
operation with the Mississippi Live Stock Sanitary Board and the United
States Department of Agriculture, Bureau Animal Industry, in the
eradicating the cattle tick and infectious and contagious diseases in
live stock.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Mis-
sissippi, That the Boards of Supervisors in the various counties of
the state, are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate
money out of the general fund of the county to be used for the
purpose of co-operating with the Mississippi Live Stock Sanitary
Board and the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of
Animal Industry, in, eradicating the cattle tick and preventing con-
tagious, infectious and communicable diseases in live stock.

Sec. 2. That this Act be in effect on and after its passage by
the Legislature and signature by the Governor.

Passed the House of Representatives the 8th day of February,
1910.
H. M. STREET,
Speaker House of Representatives.

Passed the Senate the 14th day of March, 1910.
LUTHER MANSHIP,
President of the Senate.

Approved by the Governor the 25th day of March, 1910.

E. F. NOEL,

. Governor.
Originated in House.

L. PINK SMITH,
Clerk of the House.

Regulations of the Live Stock Sanitary Board of Mississippi govern-
ing the control, and extermination of contagious, infectious and
communicable diseases of live stock in Mississippi.

Regulation 1. The annual regulations and amendments thereof
of the United States Department of Agriculture concerning inter-
state cattle transportation are hereby adopted as a porion of the
oe of this Board during such time as said regulations are
in force.

Regulation 2. The fact has been determined by the Live Stock
Sanitary Board and notice is hereby given that a contagious and
infectious disease known as Splenetic, Southern or Texas fever exists

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among cattle in the following named counties, and parts of counties,
which area is hereby declared quarantined, viz.:

Aleorn, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw,
Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Coahoma, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Frank-
lin, Greene, Grenada, Hancock, Harrison, Hinds, Issaquena, Itta-
wamba, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Kemper, LaFayette,
Lamar, Lauderdale,Lawrence, Leake, Lee, Leflore, Lincoln, Lowndes,
Madison, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Neshoba, Newton, Noxu-
bee, Oktibbeha, Pearl River, Perry, Pike, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quit-
man, Rankin, Scott, Sharkey, Simpson, Smith, Sunflower, Talla-
hatchie, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Warren, Washington, Wayne,
‘Webster, Wilkinson, Winston, Yalobusha and Yazoo.

That portion of Benton county south of Tippah Creek.

That portion of Claiborne county east of the main line of the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad.

That portion of Marshall county south and east of the Illinois
‘Central railroad.

That portion of Jefferson county east of a line beginning at the |
point where the main line of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Rail-
road crosses the Claiborne-Jefferson county line following southerly
along said railroad to its junction with the Natchez-Jackson branch
of said railroad at Harriston, Miss., thence following southwesterly
along said branch of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad to
the Jefferson-Adams county line.

That portion of Holmes county west of the line beginning at the
point on the Holmes-Leflore county line where the Yazoo and Mis-
‘sissippi Valley Railroad crosses said county line, thence following
said railroad in a southerly direction to the point where said rail-
road crosses Little Black Creek, thence following Little Black Creek
to Howard, Miss., thence following along the Foot Hill Bluffs in a
southerly direction to the Holmes-Yazoo county line.

Regulation 3. Notice is hereby given that a contagious and in-
fectious disease known.as Splenetic, Southern or Texas fever exists
under control among cattle in the following named counties and
parts of counties: Adams, Panola and that portion of Holmes county
east of the following described line beginning at the point on the
Holmes-Leflore county line where the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
railroad crosses said county line, thence following said railroad in a
southerly direction to the point where said railroad crosses Little
Black Creek, thence following Little Black Creek to Howard, Miss.,
thence following along the Foot Hill Bluffs in a southerly direction
to the Holmes-Yazoo county line, and that portion of Jefferson coun-
ty west of a line beginning at the point where the main line of the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad crosses the Claiborne-Jeffer-
‘son county line, thence following southerly along said railroad to its
junction with the Natchez-Jackson branch of said railroad at Har-
riston, Miss., thence following southwesterly along said branch of the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad to the Jefferson-Adams

county line.

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That portion of Claiborne county west of the main line of the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad.

It is hereby ordered that no person, company or corporation
owning or having in charge any cattle in the area herein mentioned
shall move or receive for shipment such cattle or any cattle from the
said prescribed area to any free or non-quarantined area, except
as hereinafter provided: Cattle shall be free of ticks and shall be
dipped in arsenical solution under the supervision of a state live
stock inspector or a county live stock inspector and certificate issued
for the movement.

Regulation 4. No cattle shall move or be permitted to move
from the quarantined area of Mississippi as set forth in section 2 of
these regulations or from the quarantined area of any other
' state into Tate, DeSoto, Tunica, Adams and Panola counties, Missis-
sippi, nor into. that portion of Benton, Holmes, Claiborne, Jefferson
and Marshall counties not herein quarantined in regulation 2.

Regulation 5. No cattle, horses, mules or asses, infested with
ticks (Margaropus annulates) shall be transported, driven or allow-
ed to drift from any other state into any county in the State of
Mississippi. :

Regulation 6. No cattle from the quarantined area of Mississippi
or of any other state shall move or be allowed to move into any
county in Mississippi in which the work of tick eradication is being
conducted except as hereinafter provided:

Cattle shall be free of ticks and shall be dipped in. arsenical
solution under the supervision of a state live stock inspector or an
inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, either at the point of
origin, en route, at the railroad unloading point or in a dipping vat
located on the inter-county line at point of entry and approved by
the Mississippi Live Stock Sanitary Board.

A certificate shall be issued by such inspector supervising the
dipping of all cattle done under the provisions of this regulation, be-
fore movement to premises in the area mentioned herein can be
made. ‘

Regulation 7. The State Veterinarian, Assistant State Veterina-
rians or State Live Stock Inspectors shall issue official quarantine
notices to all persons owning or having in charge cattle, horses or
mules infested with fever ticks (Margaropus annulatus) in counties
in this state in which the regular work of tick eradication is being
conducted. Quarantined cattle, horses, mules, sheep or hogs shall

not be moved from the field, pasture, lot, stable or enclosure in
which they are quarantined, except by special permission in written
or printed form given by the State Veterinarian, an Assistant State
Veterinarian, or a State Live Stock Inspector.

Regulation 8. No person, company or corporation owning or
having in charge any cattle in any quarantined area or region of

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the state in which the work of tick eradication is being conducted
shall permit them to run at large or stray on any public road, or
deliver such cattle for transportation, or receive for shipment such
cattle, except upon inspection and certification by the State Veteri-
narian, an Assistant State Veterinarian or a State Live Stock In-
spector.

Regulation 9. Horses, mules and asses infested with ticks in
counties in which the regular work of tick eradication is being con-
ducted shall be quarantined and treated in accordance with regula-
tions governing the movement, disinfection and handling of cattle.

: Regulation 10. In such counties in the State of Mississippi in
which the work of tick eradication is being conducted and in which
all cattle are being handled in accordance with the laws, rules and
regulations of the Mississippi Live Stock Sanitary Board governing
the control and extermination of contagious, infectious and commu-
nicable diseases of Live Stock the following conditions will apply:
Cattle that have been dipped regularly every two weeks for
three months in an arsenical solution under the supervision of a
state live stock inspector and on inspection are found free from
cattle ticks may be furnished with a certificate signed jointly by
the State Veterinarian and an Inspector of the Bureau of Animal In-
dustry entitling the owner of said cattle so certified to drive them
over the public road to the railroad dipping vat in which said cattle
are again dipped in an arsenical solution under the supervision of'a
bureau inspector in a dipping vat approved by the Secretary of Agri-
culture which is located in connection with the stock pens so that
after dipping, said cattle may be handled only through non-infected
pens and chutes into cleared and disinfected cars, after which they
may be shipped into the free area in accordance with the regulations
of the United States Secretary of Agriculture for purposes other
than immediate slaughter.

Regulation 11. No horses, mules or asses infested with ticks
shall be moved from the quarantined area of this state into any coun-
ty in this state in which the regular work of tick eradication is
being conducted.

Regulation 12. No person owning or having in charge any
cattle infested with or exposed to the infection of ticks (Margaro-
pus annulatus) shall fail to dip all such cattle (after being notified
to do so by the State Veterinarian, an Assistant State Veterinarian
or a State Live Stock Inspector) infected or exposed, in a standard
arsenical solution contained in a dipping vat, every two weeks as
long as the ticks remain on the cattle or the premises or pasture
remain infected; unless the owner or person in charge receives per-
mission from a state live stock inspector to disinfect cattle in an-
other manner. When quarantined cattle and premises are free of
ticks an order will be issued by a state live stock inspector releasing

them from quarantine.

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Regulation 13. Hides from tick infested animals shall not be
moved on the publie roads or delivered for shipment, until ten days
after being removed, or until they have been dipped in a five per
cent solution of carbolic acid.

Regulation 14. No person, company or corporation owning or
having in charge any domestic animals as cattle, horses, mules, asses,
hogs, sheep or goats affected with any contagious or infectious disease
shall permit them to stray or run at large on any common or range,
or to be moved on the public roads, or delivered for shipment, or re-
ceive for shipment such diseased animals except upon inspection and
certification of the State Veterinarian, and such diseased animals
shall not be sold for breeding or feeding purposes.

Regulation 15. Tuberculous cattle must be reported to the
State Veterinarian and be kept in strict quarantine or isolation.
When such animals are slaughtered it must be done under the su-
pervision of a qualified meat inspector, or State Veterinarian or
Assistant State Veterinarian, who will inspect the carcass and give
full directions as to the disposal of same. The use of tuberculous
cows in dairies is strictly prohibited. All cattle brought into Mis-
sissippi for use in dairies and for breeding purposes shall be free
from tuberculosis; and to determine which fact, all cattle over three
months old shall be tested with tuberculin before entering the state
of Mississippi. The health certificate that accompanies the freight
or express bill must specifically state that such cattle have been
tested with tuberculin and are free from tuberculosis.

Regulation 16. Live Stock brought into the state accompanied
by health certificate. All live stock except such live stock
as are to be used for immediate slaughter, when brought
into Mississippi by a person, company, corporation, rail-
road or other transportation companies, shall be accom-
panied by a certificate of health, and _ said _ certificate
of health shall state that said animal or animals are free from con-
tagious, infectious or communicable diseases and the carrier or car-
riers of the cause or causes of such disease. This certificate must
be made by a Veterinarian approved by officials in charge of the live
stock sanitary work in the state or by an inspector of the Bureau
of Animal Industry, immediately after he has personally examined
the live stock and before the live stock has been shipped into Mis-
sissippi. The certificate shall be attached to, and accompany the
shipping bill of live stock to the place to which the live stock are
shipped, and the owner of the live stock or agent of the transpor-
tation company shall mail or send said certificate to the State
Veterinarian immediately following the arrival of live stock at its
place of destination. The State Veterinarian shall furnish qvalified
veterinarians and transportation companies with blank health
certificates at actual cost.

Regulation 17. All domestic animals as cattle, horses, mules,
asses, hogs and sheep affected with a contagious or infectious disease

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as anthrax, tuberculosis, hog cholera, glanders, black leg and
hemorhagic septicaemia shall be disposed of as directed by the State
Veterinarian. ;

Regulation 18. The carcasses of any domestic animal as cattle,
horses, mules, asses, sheep, goats or hogs affected with an infectious
or contagious disease shall be either burned or buried at least (4)
four feet under the surface of the earth covered with live lime.
Barns, stalls, lots, troughs, buckets and all places that may be in-
fected with germs of such contagious or infectious disease shall be
thoroughly and completely disinfected or destroyed according to the
direction of the State Veterinarian or Assistant State Veterinarian,
at the owner’s expense. az

Regulation 19. The’ State Veterinarian shall appoint as
many Assistant State Veterinarians as in his judgment is necessary
to control infectious and contagious diseases, the said Assistant
State Veterinarians shall be paid by the parties for whom the work
is done, or by the County Board of Supervisors in which county the
work is done at a price to be agreed upon by them.

They shall be paid only when they are in actual service and
shall be under the direction of the State Veterinarian to whom they
shall make reports in full, and they shall consult him before making
any decisions in which it is necessary to destroy stock in order to
eradicate the disease in question. They shall make such reports
to the State Veterinarian relative to the live stock conditions in
their districts as he may demand. They shall be enabled to use
stationery to be subject to the approval of the State Veterinarian.
Tick eradication work not to be under their direction except by
special order.

Regulation 20. It is the order of this Board that anti-hog-chol-
era-serum and virulent blood for serum-simultaneous injections shall
be either manufactured or bought by this Board and sold to the
farmer at actual cost. It is also the order of this Board that all
serum sold in this state shall be subject to test. If any products
are found that do not test up to the requirements, the said serum
shall be condemned and the manufacturers of same shall be noti-
fied that his or her products must be withdrawn from the state,
and before reintroduction they shall be retested.

The testing of hog-cholera-serum shall be conducted under the
direction of the State Veterinarian, and in all cases the tests shall
conform to the Dorset-Niles system.

In districts where the services of competent men are not avail-
able to make the serum-simultaneous innoculations, this Board will
endeavor to furnish men to do this work, who are to be paid by
the owner of ‘the animals or the Board of Supervisors of that —
county. This will also apply in the case of other contagious or in- .
fectious diseases under similar circumstances.

NOTE—The term cattle, used in these regulations, means
calves, yearlings, heifers, cows, steers, oxen, and bulls.

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A BEEF COW ON A MISSISSIPPI STOCK FARM.

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The photograph from which this cut was made, was a plain
kodak view and has not been retouched in the slightest. The pic-
ture is of a Hereford cow on a Mississippi stock farm that is equal
to anything to be shown in the whole country. It is needless to
say this cow, although immune, has been kept clear of ticks, the
owner having four dipping vats in operation.

GOOD BEEF CATTLE ON A MISSISSIPPI FARM.

This picture was made of cattle at the State Fair last fall and
is an example of what can be done right here in the state in the
way of producing as good stock as other sections of the country.
This herd would prove prize winners in any competition. They, of
course, are tick free and are dipped in arsenical solution occasionally
to rid them of vermin of all kinds.

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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

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$342.68. One other bunch of steers cost as feeders $556.20, and I
kept them on feed 150 days, on hulls, cotton seed meal, and hay,
which cost me $245..42; this drove brough $8.00 per cwt., giving a
gross of $1,151.00; and a net profit of $250.00. Two other bunches
were of Jersey breed, one lot cost me as feeders $490.40; their feed
of cotton seed hulls and meal cost me $251.21. The drove brought
$7.25 per ewt., giving a gross of $1,068.00, and a net profit of
$326.41. The last drove in the experiment, I fed for the same time
an cotton seed meal and silage. The steers cost $501.04 and the feed
$222.09; the gross price was $1,040, giving a profit of $316. These
figures certainly prove that feeding is a money-making proposition
and they ought to do lots to make Mississippi an extensive cattle
state.’ — it

A MODERN STOCK BARN AND SILO IN MISSISSIPPI.

With tick eradication, the attendant improvement of live stock
conditions will bring into more general demand the silo. The
northern farmer, on $200 per acre land, makes a profit from growing
corn when the price ranges below 50 cents per bushel. We wonder
how this can be done and often talk about the folly of living in a
section where land is so high when it can be had in Mississippi for
so much less. The truth of the matter is, the northern farmer is
doing better on his high-priced land than we are doing with ours.
Why? Because he takes advantage of every method to market his
corn profitably. Only a small portion of it is sold at the market
price.

The silo to a great extent solves the problem of making a profit
out of $200 per acre land with corn. An acre of corn that will pro-

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duce thirty to forty bushels only yields one to one and a half tons
of feed. If the corn is cut and made into silage it produces from
ten to twelve tons of feed. That ten or twelve tons of feed is
marketed through a good beef animal and the operation is highly
profitable.

Of course the same ‘thing can be done right here in Mississippi,
and at a greater profit on account of mild winters and ckeap land.
Nearly all northern farmers have silos adjacent to their barns. How
many silos are there in Mississippi? Very few indeed and they are
generally of quite recent construction. But there will be many
more in a short time. Our people are beginning to realize the im-
portance of this adjunct to every farm. Mr. W. J. Davis, of Jack-
son, who has a large silo and puts it to thoroughly practical use,
insists that .he can cultivate the corn, cut and place in the silo and
feed to his cattle for $1.75 per ton, not over $2. 00 per ton in ex-
treme cases.

The cut shown on this page is the barn and oor silo at the A.
& M. College. It is a large one and cost considerable to build, but
small ones can be had for a small cost. A stave silo that will hold
25 to 30 tons can be erected for approximately $100. The State De-
partment of Agriculture, is compiling information concerning silos
for general distribution. This will be published in bulletin form
shortly and will be sent upon application to those wishing it.

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