The Camden Chronicle

TENNESSEE AT
TOP ON MARKET

Franklin County Steers Bring
Up Average for State On Livestock
Market at St. Louis

STOCK SOLD THRU ASSOCIATION

Other Tennessee Counties Are Selling
Livestock in Same Way and Reaping
a Part of Benefits that Should Come
to the State from Such Methods,

Tennessee beeves topped the steer
trade in St. Louis one day in March.
Several consignments arrived from
that state, the best being a drove of
1,183-pound $16.55 Shorthorn and Angus,
fed by J. O. Gill, and shipped
through the Franklin County livestock
association. Mr. Gill is banker and
farmer, prominent in his part of the
state and a strong advocate of live-
stock in connection with farming op-
erations. He reported he had these
steers on feed for 90 days on a ration
of corn, cottonseed meal, and molasses
feed with silage. They made an aver-
age gain of 3 pounds daily while in
the lots and in the last 15 days put
on flesh at the rate of 4 pounds daily.
They originated in that county as
feeders and nearly doubled first cost
when they sold here today.

J. I. Kennedy, also of Franklin
county, marketed cattle on the same
day at a good figure. Mr. Kennedy is
a farmer and extensive shipper.
He
says stock wintered much better than
it did a year ago.

Franklin county was formerly pretty
much devoted to wheat growing but of
late years farmers have gone in more
for corn and livestock and are doing
better by reason of the change. They
raise fine crimson clover in that sec-
tion, as fine as can be found anywhere.