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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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ymen that conditions are not only favorable tothe production of all the milk and cream used in the state but thatwith proper effort Florida can produce immense quantities for ex-port. To bring about this desirable change Florida needs thou-sands of intelligent dairy farmers who will make the most of the un-paralleled advantages that the state has to offer them. In the first place, the protein feeds necessary to feed dairy stock canbe grown in Florida in great profusion and in great variety. Cow-pea hay, analyzing sixteen per cent, protein, is equal pound forpound to the best bran. Velvet bean hay and beggarweed are alsohigh in protein content. In carbohydrate feeds we have an abun- P a g e thirty-two iiiiiiiimmiiiiiii minium inn inimm mini iiiiiim urn iiiiiiiimma TTT1IIIMIII Illlllll Illlll Illlllllllllllllll 11111111111111 Illllllllllllllll Illllllllllllllllllll I FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY 37111111111 Illlllll I Illlllimilllll Illlllllllllllll I lllllllllllllllllillllllllllirTTTTTTg
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Interior Dairy Barn of Florida Vegetable Company near Hastings, St. Johns County dance in Japanese cane, sweet potatoes, cassava and others. Thereare any number of other feed crops and pasture grasses in additionto corn silage that can be produced in quantities in nearly all partsof the state. The extra twenty-five per cent, of feed during the winter months tokeep up the natural heat of the animals is not needed in Florida. Itis also a fact that dairy cattle are bothered comparatively little byflies in Florida for the reason that this pest, so common in the north,is extremely scarce here during the greater part of the year, andnever anything like as bad as the writer has seen it in the famouscorn belt of the United States. It is true Florida has the tick todeal with, but it is not difficult of control if cattle are well salted andwell groomed as dairy stock should be. Of dairy cattle breeds for Florida the Jersey seems to be the mostpopular, though some Florida dairymen are getting ex

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