Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-03-09
Agricultural Notes.
Ell REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR.
TIE MEAT sCIFI.Y.


Notwithstanding the cnOrinoIs al
! vance IN cattle raising during IT,
/ past twenty years or 80, tue increase;
supply, even i'll favorable setsons
has Tot been at all cUmmensulaf
, with the increase in the demand 70
beef. The railo of increase i'll cat
tie Is les than that OF population
$50 that even With 40 change III diet
t, tic habits, the demand for bee
would tend steadily TO outrun th
supply. Bat our appetite for Tea
J increases much mole rapidly thai
our numbers. Tire ma hc,inan make
his daily round with fresh beet II
hundreds OF communities where sal
pork WAS eaten aim )>t eyclu-lyel,
twenty i've years ago; and genelali ,
tin on%n"ut the country beef ina
largely displaced pork on the table
"f farmers, mecnanicS and wcli-to
80 people. This partly because %
the uuIYersai Improvement III the
scale of popular living due to gen
eral prosperity, but more, perhaps
to the lLtlueEce of school of would
be health rcformers who have persis
tently decrled pork as Al article Of
food, and created widespread ana
unreasonable prejudice against it
Leaving out of consideration an,
possible increase in the demand fol
beef Tor expectation, we may reason.
ably anticipate that the home de-
mand for beef will continue to in.
crease as fast, if not faster, than
the population does; and there car
be no marked decline from the pre-
sent excessive prices until the supply
of beef cattle is brought up to the
level of the popular requirements
1t is not the prime cost of beef cat.
tie in the field, or their necessary
cost at the SHAMELESS after being
driven or carried half across the con.
tinent, that chiefly determines the
price of the meat to the consumer
but the single fact that the supply is
relatively so nleagre that cattle rails.
ers can ask and readily get prices
which enable them to make 20, 80
even SO per cent. profit per annum
on the money invested-selling for
six cents pound, live weight, cattle
which cost two cents a pound to
raise.-Scienfifc .imcrican.
The above article gives us at q
glance the reasons that lie at the
bottom of our present short supply
of meat, mainly beef and mutton.
Cattle in Western Washington, are
not to be had at any price; as high
as 10 cents pound being paid for
choice lots, and one prominent butch
er has offered 12a cents pound with
a possible advance on that price.
Good four-year-old steers will aver
age 500 each.
The call for meat will have to be
met. IN some way at present Unknown
to us. Salt water fish, clans and
oysters, will be in demand more than
ever, and our fisherman must prepare
to meet the call that will be
made upon them.
1t is not too late to grow more
pigs and poultry this season, aud we
hope our farmer friends will see to
it that every available source of
supply is improved to the utmost.
The cattle supply will be short
for two years or more at least, and
prices will continue much higher
than in the past. Eastern Washing
ton will send us some early droves to
help US through the early summer;
but the vast ranges, the enormous
bands of years past covering all the
land for miles upon miles, are no
more to be seen in our Territory.
AMERICAN WONDER PEA.
Marchal p. Wilder, Henry Ward
Beecher, aud many others, call it
" The best pea in cultivation, -
Equality SUPERIOR" &c, &c. Mark
Jones and A. A. Manning tried it
last season. and they are SO well