Effects of Tick Eradication on the Cattle Industry of the South (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Effects of Tick Eradication on the Cattle Industry of the South (Classic Reprint) written by W. F. Ward and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Effects of Tick Eradication on the Cattle Industry of the South The more progressive farmers in sections where the cattle tick has been eradicated have purchased good bulls to use in grading up their herds. The result has been wonderful. High-grade cows, produc ing deep, broad, blocky calves that mature into '800 to 900 pound steers at 2 years old have now replaced the small, cheap scrubs that were formerly on the farm. Scrub calves that were formerly worth from $4 to $7 at 12 months of age are supplanted by the grade beef calves that weigh 450 to 600 pounds at a year old and sell 'for $15 to $30 a head. Such grade calves have been marketed for the last three years by the Bureau of Animal Industry in the Alabama cattle-feed ing experiments at prices ranging from $25 to $36 a head when fattened before being put upon the market.1 Good profits were made on raising and feeding them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.