The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-11-04
CATTLE BREEDERS.
An Association to be Organized
Next Spring if Possible.

early In september, has been received
with universal favor and the plan will
probably be put into effect by June
or July next" said Mitchell I. Lsne
of Cheyenne, Wyo., who is al the
Southern. "The necessity for some
sort of organization has long been ap-
parent. but there have been two great
difficulties in the way.
CAUSES FOR Low PRICES.
'1n The first place, the owners of
range cat lie have been terribly Grip
pied by tire fall in the price of beef,
and In order 10 keep their heads above
waer aud to meet the notes that near.
ly ali had out, they have been
obliged to sacrifice their stock
and sell it for what it would
bring. The second difficulty
that was met with was the want of
harm ny between the men who owned
the great planes ranches, and the
farmers who raised cattle in connect
ion with their other business. The
farmers have always been Jealous of
he RAJ &c meD, be ieving that their
cattle had depressed the market, and
we're not at all di.pleased TO see them
get into trouble, as they thought that
it they were sold out the business
would pass into the hands of the corn
feeders and prices would 90 up.
Several efforts have been made 10
form combine, but all have been un
successful, owing largely to the posi-
tion taken by the farmers. Contrary
to the general superstition a majority
OF The cattle marketed in the west
comes from :he farms, the ranges
sending less than 40 per cent.
STRONG ALLIANCE.
"Small breeders see clearly now
that disaster to the range means dis
sster t. them. They are OF the opin |
ion that when the owners failed The
ranges would be abandoned, but this
has not proved to be the case. There
are now more cattle on the plains
than ever before, the only difference
bNue ,tt ," t-wapnhar0-of tho hAaf com
were formerly obliged to do. This
has the effect of depressing the price :,
of corn.fed beef, as it will only com
mand small advance over the tariff
paid for CRASHED steers. At last the
farmers have awakened to the neces-
sity of joining hands with range men,
and for the last three weeks / have
been engaged in obtaining the sigma
lures of large breeders in Illinois,
Missouri, Iowa and Kentucky to an
agreement to join the association as
soon as it is organized. In only three
or four cases have l met with a re-
fusal. The project is to prorate the
number of cattle TO be sent
to market by any one owner,
and to put an end to the practice of
rushing all the stock to market with
in q month or two. Heretofore nine
tenths of the range cattle have been
sold between the middle of June and
the first of September, and while the
farm stock has been more evenly
distributed, the greater part of it has
been sold at that time. The conse-
quence was that the market was
the beef bosses in alliance
with the stockyard men kept down
the price. and bought very cheap, in
many cases sending the cattle back to
The very farmers from which they
were taken until they were needed.
DISTRIBUTING SALES.
"When the organization now pro-
ected goes into effect this will be put
; stop to. Strong capitalistic back
ng has been secured, and in case
breeder has to sell his cattle at a GER
ain time, an advance can be made
70 him. and the stock marketed
1t such time as the directors of
he company deem best. In
his way the beef can he sold as it is
lsed, a certain proportion every
month, and will not be rushed to the
market all at once. A further benefit i
# the alliance between the rangemen .
md the farmers lies in the fact that
he CRASHED beef can be sent to the
armers for a month or two, taking ,
he place of the corn-fed stock that {
,oes to market. By this means the G
ound-up, which takes place immedi-
tely after branding, when there are
'lenty of men on the range, will not
'e interfered with. What we shall 4
'e obliged to have is stock yards of G
ur own, and one will certainly be
ocated here, as in Chicago we would !,
meet with too much opposition. This E
} the natural center for both the O
and Southeastern cattle q
rade, and the new association cannot 9
all to greatly benefit st. Louis. - !
'ost-Dispatch.