King Herefords Bring New Honors
To Delta Country Agriculture
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Just' a couple years ago a
story started: “Points are piling
up that will give Mississippi its
first Register of Merit Hereford
Sire in the near future.
In this week’s mail to Lancas
ter Farming was a letter from
G. H. King, Jr., owner of King
Herefords at Canton, Miss, who
advises this writer his predic
tion has come true.
“Incidentally, TR Zato Heir
74th is in a tie for 66th place
on the Register of Merit,” Mr.
King writes.
King Herefords have made a
fast advance in the fertile lands
that once supplied timber for
King lumber enterprises. Clear
ed off land proved very produc-
tive, and the introduction of
Mississippi Hereford
Silver Zato Heir 54th, reserve champion at the 1956
Fort Worth Southwestern Livestock Exposition, is bring
ing new honors to King Herefords near Canton, Miss., a
firm which is making a sensational rise on the Hereford
Register of Merit. (See accompanying story). |
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Herefords was a bit startling to
the rest of the Mississippi cotton
country.
Much tribute for the advance
on the ROM goes to Silver Zato
Heir 74th, reserve champion at
the Southwestern Livestock Ex
position in Fort Worth, Texas,
that" placed the King Hereford
on the ROM
Recognized Cattle
During the first year he was
on King’s Hereford’s flat acres
just outside Canton, .TR Zato
Heir 74th stacked up 34 points
toward the ROM. Since that time
other shows including the
Eastern National at Timomum
have felt the impact of King
Herefords, and the comparative
newcomer has moved higher on
the Herefoid Register
Allan Poe has fitted King
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Herefords over the years and
has been as well known in the
show rings as many other long
established showmen. Allan join
ed King Herefords in 1953, leav
ing his home at Starr, Texas,
while attending Texas Tech at
Lubbock to help convert former
timberlands into productive pas
tures.
Mr. King’s statement of a
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G. HAROLD KING, JR
couple years back rings espe
cially true at this point;■-
“I hope to prove that despite
climate, the South can produce
a recognized herd that can com
pete with any Herds have been
good, but no one here has tried
to compete with the big_boys ”
Despite climate, the South* is
producing good cattle They are
being recognized in the show
ring The big boys have found
competition with the Mississippi
upstarts a bit rugged.
The King $3OOO investment in
,TR Zato Heir 74th has paid ofl,
and mention of the King invest
ment brings up the fact that
Mrs. King a college class
mate of Harold, at Louisiana
State Umveisity helped select
the bull entered by Turner
Ranch, Sulphur, Okla. in the
1951 International Hereford Sale
One son of the “74th” sold
for $7,000; twelve bull calves by
the 74th all under 15 months
averaged $1538, and another
son has gone for $2675, paying
of the original investment in? the
“old man” several times
Nothing Startling, Showy
There is nothing startling or
“showy” about King Herefords
farmwise, outside of the prac
tical approach. True, there’s a
sign outside Canton, using mer
chandising methods that the re
tail business does. There’s a
colorful sign along the roadside
at the farm, former timberlands,
but buildings are simple, prac
tical, of rough lumber covered
with shingle stain.
Helping Mr. Poe and the Kings
are Aldeen Lee, another Texan,
and Gene Chapman, who make
up a powerful team on the tan
bark.
Originally the King Enter
prises included lumber mills and
furniture dimensional mills that
extended through Mississippi and
Arkansas. Fire destroyed one in
Canton a couple years ago, but
Herefords have taken over, prov
ing the South can produce good
cattle, and that former timber
land, if properly used and fer
tilized, can produce topnotch cat
tle.
That' helps explain this
practical approach —why a
Southern herd has made one of
the most sensational rises on
the Hereford Register of Merit.
Tuesday Sale
Of Broilers
Cancelled Here
■Receipts were too low Tues
day to conduct an auction of
broilers at the Lancaster Poul
rry Exchange m Rohrerstown.
Listed for sale Thursday were
42 lots totaling 129,000 birds,
somewhat below offerings last
week, where 24,000 were sold
Tuesday, April 10, and 147,000
Thursday of last week.
Gap 4-H Club Holds
Election of Officers
Mary Ellen Shoemaker was
elected president of the Gap 4-H
Club during a meeting in the
Gap Centralized School.
t
Other officers are 'Dons Krei
der, vice president; Janet Adams
secretary; Wanda Henry, treas
urer, Miiderd Mast, news report
er, Barbara Miller, song leader;
Shirley Brown, assistant; Ruth
Ann Kauffroad, game leader;
Joyce Ellis, assistant.
Lancaster Farming, Friday, April 20, 1956—3
President Vetoes
Farm Bill Plans
(Oontfcinued from page one)
One provision presented by
the President Monday night
would be a “simple provision”
that would permit the Govern
ment to start making payments
of up to 50 per cent to participat
ing farmers immediately after
July 1.
This was in answer to com
plaints that the measure would
be enacted too late, since the
planting season is already well
under way in many parts of the
nation.
Payments Delayed
Farmers taking part in either
the acreage reserve or conser
vation reserve divisions of the
soil bank plan would be eligible
for payment after they sign con
tracts with the Government. Pay
ments would be withheld until
it was determined tarmers had
filled their part of the contract
I Movement of farm surpluses,
aid to younger farmers starting
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