Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-03
CATTLE RAISING.
instances OF Enormous Profits That
Have Been Realized by the
Cattle Kings.
me safest and surest Way in the world
some OF the Largest Herds on The
Western Plains aud Their Owners.

From Cattle Raising on the Plains Inv " n.
Won Richthofen.
That the Western prairles, with their
countless herds, may become the meat.
producing center of the world is proved
by the fact that they already occupy thai
position relative to the American nation.
and that, according to statistics, the de.
mand In London for American cattle IL
continually Increasing, II is calculated
that II in North America cattle raising
should suddenly cease all present exist
ing cattle would be eaten up within live
years. Since 1860 thirty states and terri
tories show decrease, five are standing
still and only four show an increase of
their stock in comparison with their pop.
ulation According to statistics the in.
crease of population is much more rapid
than that of stock The propor.
ton is - to ID per cent. with
this fact before us we see thnt
1t is necessary to raise more stock or tbc
price of beef will rise continuously. Ire
years ago, when paid for beefstcak. cut
lets, etc, less than ten cents a portion in
Germany, While at my visit last year |
paid as much as thirty-nve cents. This
shows considerable Increase in prices
Everybody knows how dear living has be.
come In consequence of the constant rise
in the price OF beef
This fact Is very encouraging to cattle.
breeders and landowners For many
years to come they need not have any
fears OF over-production. The census of
the United States shows,a population of
10000, 600, with yearly increase of two
and thrce-quarters peri cent Cattle
raising does not keep pace with this
rapid Increase of population. The East
crn and Middle states show n rapid de-
crease of cattle. The land there Is too
dear TO make the business of raising cat.
tie profitable, and it pays the farmer bet
ter TO turn all his attention to the cultiya.
ton OF cereals and vegetables. Although
he will always be obliged to raise few cat
tie, he has alreadygiven up the idea of pro.
bly, raising herds, for he remembers that
he must pay for his pasture from $50
TO 800 per acre, and also must raise hay
and fodder for his cattle, and that he
has to compete with the herds raised out
weston pastures formerly worth nothing,
and now perhaps only 81 or 50 per acre,
on which cattle thrive and fatten winter
and summer without shelter. This great
pasture region of North America has an
area of 100000 square miles, and is wa
tered by hundreds of rivers and rlyulets,
which head in the Rocky mountains and
furnish to the herds the Durest, sweetest
and healthieSt drinking water. The
climate OF these great pastures, MS a
whole, is excellent; il cannot be COM
pared with that in Europe and the east
under the same latitude.
now CATTLE INCREASE.
If 100 cows and their female progeny
be kept at breeding for ten years, the re.
suit would be as follows; Estimating
the natural Increase at so per cent, OF
which 40 per cent. of the cows would
have heifers, which would, beginning
when two years old in their turn have
young;