The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-25
GOOD OUTLOOK FOR CATTLE
RANCHMEN HOPEFUL OF Sc
CURING YOUNG STOCK

Prospective Government Purchases
for Cuba and Porto Rico Stiffen-
in Large Expectations by United
States for Food and Grazing In
West indies.
The Stock Growers Journal of Miles CITY,
kays that there is good prospect ahead for the
utilization of the Montana ranges. and that
many cattle will be brought into that state
the present year, notwithstanding the high
prices maintained by stock owners of the
southwest and South. 1t is manifest. from
many sources of Information bearing upon the
i've stock industry, that the government will
cry soon be in the market for fresh beef
supply for Cuba. A Texas cattle man is
authority for the statement that during q re-
cent visit TO Washington he learned that the
government was planning to purchase 50oN
5eeves to be delivered required for The
use of the armies of invasion of both Cuba
and Porto Rico. He is also of the op.n on
that the bulk of these cattle will be TAX n
from Texas, or from points below the estab-
lished quarantine lines, for the reason that
cattle shipped at this period of the year f.. ON
Northern points are liable TO contract fevers
1t is noted also in this connection. that,
owing to the neutrality laws, Mexico will
not be permitted to supply provisions Of acy
sort either to the United States or Spa
during the existence of the war, ard hence
Mexican cattle will not enter into comp tt
lion with those of this country. Further
more. the belief is expressed that the de-
inand for beef cattle for shipment to the
West Indies is likely to continue after the
termination of hostilities. inasmuch for
considerable period TO the people of
both Cuba and Porto Rico, already in
furnishing condition, will require TO be led
and it Will be a part of the duty of our
government to supply them. There Is al
abundance of excellent pasture lands in both
of these islands. but the stock, especially In
Cuba, has been practically exhausted du.ing
the instruction period covering a space of
three years already. 1t ~ argued, therefore,
that for considerable time to come our mar
kets must supply those sections with cattle
for grazing. This speculative theory is in
dulged by Southwestern cattle men TO
degree which renders them Indifferent with
respect to immediate sales In this visw 4
the case 1t is hardly reasonable to supIrss
that the ranches of Texas Oklahoma or New
Mexico will be very prolific in the supply Ct
s;ockers for the grazing lands of the North
west.
AS an indication of the concern which ex-
lists in some localities as to the sources OF
supply OF feeders and stockers, correspond
ent of the Indiana Farmer recently wrote
that journal that after spending several
Gays at the Indianapolis stock yards in an
endeavor TO secure steers to put upon the
blue grass pastures OF that state he found
IT Impossible to secure what he wanted He
also INDUCES in some criticisms of the quail
lty OF cattle offering there, fact which
strengthens the conviction that farmers gen.
orally are wcfully blind to their own inter-
ests IN the matter of proper breeding he
states truth, too and one which is as evil
dent in its frequent realization on visits to
the st. Paul stock yards as it is in Indiana
polls that there are too many grazers and
feeders of unproifc cattle, and that too many
cows and calves are going to the market
over and over again, attention has been
called, in this column, to this almost fragrant
neglect of the future evinced by the farmers
of the Northwest. Just at this particular
ume-today, yesterday, last week this fact,
is evident IN the Union Stock Yards at South
st. Paul. There numbers of good heal
thy cows, aud many with calves by their
sides, coming in at this time from points in
Minnesota. and the cause cannot be compre-
hende1. The farmers of this state never had
before them better opportunities for live
stocA raising than the present affords. ANY
one of these good cows would BE a source
OF income to the farmer who would take the
pains to carefully mate her with a thorough
bred sire. And it is incomprehensble why
any intelligent Minnesota farmer possessed
of good grade Shorthorns and Hereford
calves, should be throwing them upon the
market at this time to be purchased by
shi ewd feeders in Iowa and Nebraska and
yet this is just what is occurring every day.
EASTERN INTEREST IN LIVE STOCK
Agriculturists of the East hay : noted with
great interest and marked sympathy the rise
in prices of beef stock throughout the Cen
trail West. They rejoice with their fellow
farmers over the return of prosperity to this
great branch of stock raising, and are GER
tain that 1t pressages renewed interest and
enlarged activity in the Ines of stock farm
ing in which they especially engaged.
Indeed the tide has already begun to rise in
the East and breeders of dairy cattle, sheep
ard pigs are already experienc ng the thrill
of returning attention to these industries.
The stock farmer at the present time has
very little occasion for complaint at the con-
ditiOns which surround HIM and the pros
poets which confront hm.-Breeder's Ga
zette.