y be made to succeed.

In the beginning of this active live stock development it is unfortunate
that there is not a larger body of exact data concerning both the
culture and feeding value of the more important forages available. There
is a large amount of such information concerning corn, timothy, red
clover, alfalfa, blue grass and white clover, not only in America, but
also in Europe. Furthermore, countless live stock farms exist where the
practical utilization of these forages has been worked out in detail. In
comparison, our stock of knowledge concerning Southern forages, both
from experimental investigations and from practical experience, is
relatively small. This is not surprising, because the experiment
stations have very properly been compelled to devote their energies
mainly to assisting agricultural industries in proportion to their
existing importance, rather than to industries in which there was
relatively little interest. In this matter of Southern forages I have
long advocated much more generous support on the part of the State and
Federal agricultural agencies, because I have great faith in the future
possibilities.

With the magnificent start that has now been made in live stock farming
in the South, we may hope for much more generous support to live stock
and forage investigations, but this hope will be realized only if we are
insistent in our demands. The knowledge thus to be obtained is
fundamental, and the progress that is made in live stock raising will be
conditioned in an important measure on the accurate investigations that
can be conducted only at properly equipped experiment stations.

One other angle of these general considerations must not be overlooked.
The northern or western man who may be considering developing a live
stock ranch in the South naturally wants to see developed ranches in
which the practical problems have been worked out. In all the South
there are very few cattle ranches which have reached a finished state of
development--where the concrete demonstration exists of a type of
management that can be duplicated.

Now, of course, I am fully aware that Florida and all the South has long
had an extensive cattle industry based on the natural grasses of the
prairies and of the piney woods. In general, this has been a profitable
industry, especially on free range. Without hurting anyone's feelings,
we will, I think, agree that this has not been a very high grade of live
stock ran