Identifier: livestockfarming00flor (find matches)
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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, Walker Bros , and others made muchmoney raising native cattle on native grasses. At that time noattention whatever was paid to blooded cattle, and there were nopastures enclosed, as it was not necessary. The range was all open,free to be used by anyone who had a few cattle. Inasmuch as theclimate was so equable and uniform the native grasses would sus-tain cattle splendidly throughout the year, winter as well as summer,therefore it was not necessary to ever buy a pound of feed for thesecattle. The only expense was in rounding up, marking and brand-ing the calves in the spring, and shipping beef wherever it waswanted. z Page twenty-four nTTTTTIIlTTTTTTIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHlllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHnilllll mill Iinj ;i urn iiiiiiiiiiiiiniii miiiiiiiiiiiimiii i iiiimiiiiii iiiiiiiiinii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY eiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiini iiiiiiiiinii i nun lllllllllllllllll I f 11111111ITTT
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Cutting Corn for Silo on Hastings Cold Storage Companys Farm, St. Johns County Since that period some portions of the range have been bought bycattle owners and fenced for their own use. In nearly all thesecases some attention is now being paid to the introduction of goodblood. This feature of the business, however, is practically in itsinfancy, but wherever tried by the introduction of thoroughbredbulls the shipped cattle have been a decided success. The principalstrains introduced are the Hereford and the Aberdeen Angus, or asfamiliarly called the Black Polled Angus. The latter seem to be thefavorite by the majority of those who have tried them and watchedthe outcome of the experiments. The most noted example of theBlack Polled Angus is the herd now owned by the Carson CattleCompany, of Camp Hammock, on Lake Kissimmee. They intro-duced a carload of this breed of bulls and heifers last fall. Probably twenty years ago large herds of cattle could be boughtat $5.00 per head. Now the reg

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