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Florida State Live Stock Association

This early twentieth-century Florida trade group published promotional and practical writing aimed at cattle growers, presenting the state as a promising place for livestock production. Its surviving work offers a snapshot of how agricultural organizations used books and pamphlets to persuade, inform, and attract settlers and investors.

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Florida: An Ideal Cattle State

Florida: An Ideal Cattle State

by Florida State Live Stock Association

About the author

Florida State Live Stock Association was an agricultural association rather than an individual writer. It is credited as the author of Florida: An Ideal Cattle State, a 1918 publication created to share information about Florida's advantages for raising livestock, especially beef cattle.

The book's foreword was written by W. F. Blackman, who is identified in the text as president of the association and a member of the Florida State Live Stock Sanitary Board. The publication describes itself as a practical, promotional volume compiled from contributions by experienced livestock men.

Because this is a corporate author, a personal life story and portrait are not available in the usual sense. What remains most notable is the association's role in documenting and promoting Florida's cattle industry during that period.