Florida: An Ideal Cattle State

by Florida State Live Stock Association

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

42 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 2011

Reviews

[Carlton Phelps · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read

If you grew up in Florida and have been around cattle ranches this short book should be interesting.
If you grew up in the city or have no interest in cattle ranches this book will bore you to death.
I grew up in Florida and around cattle ranches so the book was a good read. I found it interesting because of the time when it was written. Cattle ranching was in the early stages and the paper presented was telling ranchers how they could see cattle ranches expand and become prosperous.

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

🖋️ This collection of essays and speeches give the reader a good beginning on understanding the cattle industry in Florida. I greatly enjoyed reading this book! It was “Copyrighted 1918 by THE FLORIDA STATE LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION P. O. Box 1181 Jacksonville, Florida Foreword By W. F. Blackman, Ph. D., LL. D. President of the Florida State Live Stock Association, Member of the Florida State Live Stock Sanitary Board.”
📙Published in 1918.
🟢The e-book version can be found at Project Gutenberg.
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🔲 Topics included:

🔹POSSIBILITIES OF BEEF PRODUCTION IN FLORIDA. By Frank S. Hastings, Manager of the S. M. S. Ranch, Stamford, Texas, who spent two weeks studying conditions in Florida just previous to the Sixth Annual Convention of the Florida State Live Stock Association, at which he was one of the speakers. These impressions have been prepared by Mr. Hastings for the benefit of the cattle men of Florida.

🔸FORAGE CROPS FOR FLORIDA. (Address delivered before the Florida State Live Stock Association, January 9, 1918, by Prof. C. V. Piper, Agrostologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.) For many years I have been interested in the problem of more and better forage for the South, because it has long been evident to students of agriculture that sooner or later there would be an important live stock industry developed in the South.

🔹FLORIDA AS SEEN FROM A TEXAS STANDPOINT. Address by W. N. Waddell of Fort Worth, Texas, before the Florida State Live Stock Association, January 9, 1918. Mr. Waddell started to working cattle on the Texas ranges in 1875, and has been in the cattle business for himself since 1881. He was chairman of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission of Texas for four years, and for a number of years has been the Texas representative of the Live Stock Exchange National Bank of Chicago, and of the Chicago Cattle Loan Company. After spending a week in Florida during August of 1917, Mr. Waddell returned to the State in November and spent considerable time investigating the opportunities for raising cattle. This address gives his views on the advantages Florida possesses as a cattle-producing state.

🔸A GLANCE BACKWARD AND FORWARD. Annual Address before the Florida State Live Stock Association, January 8, 1918, by Dr. W. F. Blackman, President of the Association.

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