. Laws, rules, and regulations governing the control and extermination of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases of live stock in Mississippi. Livestock; Veterinary medicine. —14— $ One other bunch of steers cost as feeders $, and I kept them on feed 150 days, on hulls, cotton seed meal, and hay, which cost me $; this drove brough $ per cwt., giving a gross of $1,; and a net profit of $ Two other bunches were of Jersey breed, one lot cost me as feeders $; their feed of cotton seed hulls and meal cost me $ The drove brought $ per
. Laws, rules, and regulations governing the control and extermination of contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases of live stock in Mississippi. Livestock; Veterinary medicine. —14— $ One other bunch of steers cost as feeders $, and I kept them on feed 150 days, on hulls, cotton seed meal, and hay, which cost me $; this drove brough $ per cwt., giving a gross of $1,; and a net profit of $ Two other bunches were of Jersey breed, one lot cost me as feeders $; their feed of cotton seed hulls and meal cost me $ The drove brought $ per cwt., giving a gross of $1,, and a net profit of $ The last drove in the experiment, I fed for the same time an cotton seed meal and silage. The steers cost $ and the feed $; 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 ; I i A MODERN STOCK BARN AND SILO IN "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-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration an
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