Abilene Daily Reporter (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 139, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 23, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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THE ABILENE DAILY REPORTER
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THE DECREASE IN CATTLE
In recent years- thoro has been Jllttle. fluctuation In the
t Tirlco of meat except when prices have "gone a little
higher and whenever there has ben an advance almost
; -without exception tho higher price has been maintain-
ed. To those who have observed .tho cutting up and
j curtailing Of tho once vast ranges of Texas and. the In-
crease in the meat consuming population of the country
the present conditions are no surprise and It Js evident
that unless theroyis an early turning back to stock
growing in a few years tho prico of meat will Boar so
high that men of moderate Incpmes will bo forced to
a yegetablo dIet principally The Fort Worth Record
.says:
Recent marketing at Fort Worth stockynrds have ap-
parently proved that the qatle supply In Texas Is decreas-
ing Since tho beginning of tho year the marketing of
calves has been not to exceed 0000 head while for the cor-
responding period last year tho number was closo to
10000 head
JJqder ordlanfcy circumstances this discrepancy of
"47MO wpufd" not he considered as Indicating anything
out of the ordinary for the fluctuations In tho supply are
not Infrequently as great as this In all branches of tho
trade. But the situation Is out or the ordinary; It is
. rn extraordinary. It Is such ns to call for a flood of
calves to this market if tlioy "were available for market
purposes One yw ago calves were selling at J5 ti
5.S0 '.-At the present tfme. the price Is a dollar higher
lr cwt for the same quality of calves and a week and
two wska ao within wtocht the cmpUation of receipts
was made as above indicated and the price ofcajves had
risen to 7 and I7.&6 per cwt.
Tha .situation resolves Itself into' this; In the. months
of Noyeinbr and Dcmbr 1W7 tuui January .1008 the
total number f ealv received at'&e Fort "Worth mar-
ket exceeded 6S.OO0 had. In tie jr reepamllug period
the "ineenUve to brinf Ihem to ef h;;Jarly GO per
greater now than In tho earlier period.
When calves dan be sold at ?12 and $15 a head the in-
centltlye to dispose of them Is so great the Immediate
profit is so apparent that but one thing can stand in the
wayof a great rush' to market the absence of supply
Cattlemen as a rule lopk to Immediate results. If
they can dispose of calves or yearlings at a price approx-
imating closely to the values that niature cattle would
bring a year hence they are apt to let them go; for
what would be the sense of holding calves to sell as 2s
at ?22 when they will bring $12 to $15 at 5 to G months'
of age? This sort of temptation has been put before the
cattlemen of Texas and they have not responded to It
The plain Inference is that the calves are not available
or In other words they are not In the country or they
Would have come forward in response to tho strong de-
mand and the excessive prices.
When $7 to $7.25 per cwt. will not bring forward calves
to the chief calf market of the country It Is time' for those
who prepare beef steers for the market bo taking stock
of their future opportunities Such a condition points
Inevitably to a shortngo In steers; perhaps not the coming
year but certainly In the next. Half of the calf supply
from tho Texas breeding gronnds' consists or heifers
and If they are not brought out In response to fancy
prices then the supply of mothers for the herds or the
future Is at a low ebb. So that upon the face of appear-
ances at present a shortage In the Texas cattle supply
is Inevitable.
From every cattle producing sectlonf of tho United Stated
comes the Bame story. Young cattle of every sort are
scarco and a shortage of tho beef supply stares tho
country In tho face. Tho shrinkage of receipts in cattlo
at the great markets of tho. country bears out tho conclu-
sion; for although good beef cattle aro abnormally high
nt present they are slow in seeking a market ' lri re-
sponse to tho prices.
Tho obvious moral to the Texas cattlo raisers is to he-
gin breeding moro cattle.
servatlon of the surplus moisture for the time ;of need.
Study and profit by tho Campbell system.
There aro greater misfortunes than tho one of hap-
pening to be on tho wrong side of tho street wlen the
wearer of a sheath gown passes upf'ft'eoppo'slte "side;
Notwithstanding the fact tlla'C '"Hie cemeteries are
crowded with tombstones marking tho graves of people
who had persuaded themselves that the world could not
get along without them things seem to move along
uninterruptedly-just as though there had never been a
funeral procession.
Fort Worth physicians are alarmed over a young lady'
who Is reported to have been sleeplng.mord thdn a week
and all efforts to arouse her have proved to be unavail-
ing. Abilene has the reputation of being the place of
habitation of many wlde-awako people notwithstanding.
' the fact sholias a number of male citizens who have been
sleeping for years.
President Roosevelt Is alleged to have advised a post-
mistress to hang on 'till h freezes over. The Mineral
Wells Index Is of tho opinion that It Is time for the lady
to relax her hold on this piece of governmental pie as
press dispatches a few days ago said that there was a
mantle of Ice over Chicago.
Prof. Campbell tho soil culturd expert says: "Wo
couldn't tell all about tho dry. farming system In 500
book.n pages but the essential thing to give tho plants Is
a firm moist root bed covered with a losa surface of soil.
We do that by plowing deep and packing the surface
down firm at once so that tho sub-soil will not dry out.
Thon wjth the surfaco loose the ground Is In n condi-
tion to accumulate all tho moisture that falls and It Is
also In a condition to got tho elemonts from tho air that
tho soil needs to becamo fertile. Wo keep tho surfaco
loose by harrowing after every rain. Then when tho seed
la finally planted on that firm seed bed with tho soil
over It it can get tho molstura from below and the
elements in tho air and the soil which makes fpr plant
growth. The surfaco of tho ground must bo cultivated
utter every rain so to break tho crust which would form
and hurt tho crop-both by wasting- tho moisture from bo-
low and by choking off tho air from supplying tho plant
roots with the olomonta they peedM Whllq tho AbHono
country cannot bo truthfully tagged a drouthy country
many parts of the Campbell system can be adopted and
splendid results 'obtained. Especially is this truo of pre-
paring the hoII to retain the moisturo which comes when
It Js not really nedod for tho time when it is needed.
The Official annual record of rainfall In. Taylor county
for more thantwe"nty-two years show that there has boon
a sufficient precipitation each year to produce a good
crop and that thoro never would have been anything
like a complete crop failure In this section of tho country
for want of moisturo had the people been taught and
adopted the scientific methods of retaining the moisture.
People have been Blow to abandon the haphazard way
but where you find one that does yjpu have located a
moro prosperous farmer than 'the one who has given no
study to the best seeed climatic conditions and pre?
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Abilene Daily Reporter (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 139, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 23, 1909, newspaper, January 23, 1909; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth315470/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.