San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-08
DEMAND FOR GOOD ANIMALS.

The demand for Texas buyers fC
fat cattle increas es yearly. There
no difficulty in disposing OF fat cattle
and could these cattle be landed d
the Kansas City or Chicago yards i
as good condition as they leave tn
ranges or feeding pens of Texas ther
would be no complaint about prices
IL is not the cost of transportation
alone, nor the shrinkage in weight
though both of these are decided
draw backs to profit, that renders tn
shipment to distant markets so ruin
Gus. 1t is the deterioration of tn
cattle themselves, compelling a low
classification in the market and re
ducing the selling price from forty t.
fifty per cent below the class sucl
cattle would have rated on leaving
Texas. The great bulk of Texas
cattle reaching the Chicago market
are only fit for the can and no amount
of good feeding at home can pre-
vent this. The better condition
the cattle are in when ship
ped, the better will they stand
the journey and the more saleabIe
will they be on reaching market, but
the 1000 mile car ride is an insuper-
able barrier to their reaching Chicago
YNpin,n condition, Enf thnn
are sought for because they deterior-
ate less en- route, and are more readi-
ly sold at the other end of the jour
ney, and really return more on the
This would teach the
benefits of fattening Texas cattle he
fore offering them for transportation,
and there is no doubt that in any
event the future will see a larger
of fat cattle shipped than
the past has done. This insures
better market for Texas corn in the
future than in the past, and gives en-
to growers of grain to
Increase their acreage and enlarge
their operations. Added to this,
however, is the immediate pros
Dect of market in Texas for at
east limited number of fat cattle,
which number under favorable con-
iltiOns will increase from year to
year until the supply of beeves will
De largely absorbed by Texas re-
There will be no ieteriora-
ion to a side of beef after it is frozen.
70 long as it is kept at a freezing
and to the cost of trans
DortatiOn will not be added the cost
If shrinkage and the deterioration of
he cattle. The demand for good ami
mails noted in the stock notes Of today
will be an increasing demand and side
Dy side, with it Will be n demand for
'attening foods of all kinds. TO the
armer this opens a door for the sale
IF corn heretofore closed against him
and will no doubt quadruple the corn
acreage of the state in very short
time. The prospect alike TOR the
farmer the feeder of range cattle for
the market, and the ranchman is en-
When Texas cattlemen
market only good animals and mar
Het them in close proximity to the
ranges the problem of profitable
cattle raising in Texas is solved.
a TIE Montana Journal gives the
DrOhibitOnists who are asking spec
al Legislation again st liquor in origi-
lal packages this consolation:
"Mr. Kerr. of Iowa, wants con-
gress to forbid the transportation OF
liquors into prohibition states. This
5 all right if congress will at the
same time forbid prohibitionists going
nto other states to drink. Make the
legislation consistent
Time which adjusts all things will
neal this craze for regulating another
mans eating and drinking.
THE republican national committee
IAN be trusted to take care Of the
craftsmanship of that committee.
This much Is gospel. The committee
will not retain a chairman guilty of
2roOkedness nor will they change him
merely in response to a big democrat
C howl.
THE employment of gas as a motor
n San Antonio is coming to the front.
The LIGHT was the first to put in a
gas engine. which has now heen in