St. Paul daily globe., 1891-03-27
END OF THE SCRUBS.
Some Useful Facts Gathered by
the Indiana Farmer.


Line upon line on the folly of holding
to scrub stock has been supplemented
by exceeding strong argument on the
same side by the markets of the past
year or two. Prices and profits are the
final arbitrament of all business and
commercial propositions. This touches
where words won't. In these years
prices have been great object lessons.
Here are the killing and making-alive
facts. High grade beeveS S5.25 to $3.50
per hundred pounds. Common beeveS,
$3.50 to So per hundred pounds. That
tells the tale in part only. The
other part is that two-year-Old
grades weigh more than three
year-old common beeves. Or, putting
into market, grades at three will aver
age 400 pounds, while the common av-
erage only 1,100 pounds. Mind these
are the averages Of the markets, not the
exceptions of single instances here and
there. Now let any one take his pencil
and figure out how much is lost in hold
Ing on the scrub race Of cattle. High
and unnecessary taxes are all outrage.
EXtrayagant public expenditures by
township, county, state and nation are
an outrage on the great masses of the
industrious and frugal people. But the
man who is committing commercial and
business suicide by holding on to the
scrub will not impress the public
by raising his voice outside
till he tries the remedy inside
of his own fences and barns.
The day of mamma and quailS is past.
The world has been taught how to keep
itself in material things. Those who
avail themselves of none of the lessons
before them will have to ''come up
through great tribu latiOn." The beef
markets for two years have made plain
the struggles of this class. These facts
will have been in vain if not fruitful
upon such.
1t can confidently be predicted that
these contrasts in the markets must be
the last feather to break the back of the
scrub tribe. From this on growers of
live stock will seek means for grading
up what they have. The prices of males
for this purpose are so low that any can
obtain them. This year is sure to wit
ness an advance in all good live
stock. Indeed, prices have already
started upward. The pure breeds
| and all others are in the same boat.
Upon the prices OF beef cattle depends
the prices of pure-bred cattle. AS the
one advances so will the other. But
one thing is settled, viz: the gulf Gin
pIlCeSJ oelWeen RTdUe OeeVeS ana COM
mon is fixed. The wide margin of diff
ferenceS during the past two years of
confessed close times of all classes of
consumers makes it plain that good
beef will hold its place in advance of
poor. If common beef goes up to 81,
the good grade will 90 to sc per hun
dred. And thus the margin will still
be wide. and the grower of the COM
mon will still be at the same
disadvantage. On this same SUBJ
ject the Texas Live Stock Jour
nal, published in the midst of the snu-
Gus, athlete breeding district, though
rapidly improving their stock, says:
''All those now engaged in raising cat
tie should be able to see aud know that
scrubs have seen their course, Outllved
their day and are no longer wanted.
The market and the demand grows
more and more eXacting each year. The
p ogressive and successful cattle raiser
will cater to the demand for a better
quality of beef, and in return will re-
ceive better and more remunerative
prices. On the other hand, the careless
and Indifferent cattlemen will continue
to raise scrubs, sell them to the eau
ners, and lose money until the sheriff
sells them out, and then they say 1.-THE
Big Four did it,"