Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-03-20
SOME THINGS.
Cattle Growers Victims of Their
Own Simplicity-The Low
Price of Beef.
Over Stocked Ranges-Eastern
Cattle Conventions-Bull Peo-
dlers and General Disturbers.
PLAIN WORDS.

PLAIN WORDS.
A Cattleman Has Something to say OF Inter
est to stockmen.
In the Montana Live Stock Journal
Of Saturday, Charles Anceny, the sage
of Morelaud, occupies four columns
with live stock article that is well
worth reading in itsentirety, but which
space only allows US to make the fol.
lowing excerpts:
Since the depreciation of prices
which has taken place among the cat
tlemen OF America for two years past,
much has been said rs to the cause,
ETC., but little as yet has demonstrated
very plausIbly what really has caused
the disturbing element among cattle.
II seems that all the beef that went To
the market was sold and consumed.
The consumers claim they pay just as
much for beef at the shop since the
growers were compelled to take much
less for their steers than whe n they
were getting fair price, which has
caused general dissatisfaction TO the
satisfaction Of few. These few are
the ones who have made the money
lost In general on cattle and have
proved the most intelligent, while the
cattle growers are
ONLY VICTIMS
of their own simplicity. being them
selves very likely the main cause Of
their own trouble by their bossting to
the world over their cattle, and what
a fine thing there was in them, in such
exsggeration as to make every man
feel NJ though he too wanted 10 be the
owner of some cattle. After cattle
came sheep; now horses are being
blown up. Ii is to be hoped that they
will not undergo such a crash as the
cattle have, for We can always more
clearly understand our mistake after
wards and can better our condition in
the future by taking the past into con.
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willing TO relate to Others only the
bright side of the question in our spe.
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IN, h,Vb price Of beef which WA. oplv