Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-04

| the cattle market, - said Ben Hackett to
| a GAZETTE reporter yesterday, "and
| that is the fact that cattlemen have made
! Chicago the market for stock cattle. All
| kinds of cattle, regardless of their con
| dition, are rushed there, and as long as
Gamers can buy them for 81 20, and as
long as they will answer for canning pur-
| poses Just as well as good fat beef cattle,
| they, the Gamers, are going TO buy that
class of cattle in. preference to cattle that
are now selling at So %. The fact that
these cattle are being rushed to market
is the result of a number of cattle
! men = desiring to get out of
the business and get rid
| of their stock. Now, it used to be that a
dry COW would sell in Texas for S25. She
would not sell for that in Chicago, and
the result was that no such stock was sent
to that market. 1t used to be that a
two-year-old steer would sell in Texas
for $40 and would not bring that N Chi
cagO: consequently but few cattle of that
class were shipped to Chicago. The re-
suit was that none but good fat beeves
were shipped to market and the prices
were good. Let the same conditions
prevail again-let the lean, immature
cattle be kept at home and none but fat
stock put on the market, and the
supply will be so greatly cut
down that consumers VIII have to
purchase a better class of cattle than
they are now buying. This would create
a better demand for good beef cattle,
and in proportion to the increased de-
mand the price would increase. The
question is often asked, What is the
matter with the cattle market?' What l
have just told you is what is the matter
with it, and just so long as this shipping
of all kinds of cattle to the market is
kept up, just so long viii something be
the matter that will keep prices down. "
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F. c. Dunning OF Dundee, III. writing
to the Chicago DrOyers' Journal, fully
agrees with Ben Hackett, who is quoted
in this column aud makes the following
statements in regard to the condition of
the cattle market: 81 see in your letter
department. that there are a great many
finding fault with markets on cattle for
the past year, which they may have good
reason to, but who is to blame; is it not
the producer? If you will go back as
far, from 1882 to 1886, everybody that
was handling cattle, either at home or
abroad, was making plenty of money,
and what was the result? Every man
that owned from forty acres to
a million put it to its utmost
capacity of raising cattle. I have seen
buyers riding through the country, buy
ing anything and everything that had
horns or tails, to feed or to send West
Consequently farmers would breed or
raise a third more of scrub stock than
they could feed and take care of, because
they had an idea that anything would
sell Now, for the past two years the
market has been flooded with about ; 80
per cent. of cat ham razor backs, rough
stuff that it, a wonder they bring any
thing. Let these same men that are
finding fault with the men who are get
ting their rubbish out of the
way go into any market and
find it glutted with something they
want to buy and see how they VIII hold
back to get it at their own prices. De-
mand makes the price. What farmers
want is to stop and see where they are TO
blame II you want to effect cure you
must get at the root of the disease. So
with our farmers; they must get at work
practically and Systematically. Breed :!
the stock that makes the most pouads
and brings the top price in the shortest
time Better keep few and keep them
good than good many worthless ani.f1
mails. Cutting the market with sasuA