The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-11-19
LOOKS FOR GOOD PRICES.
There Will be a Big Shortage in Cot
ton Seed Cattle This Season,
Says Mr.. Titus.

says VAT. tItuSs
Santa Fe officials think fewer
cattle will be fed along their line
this year at the oil mills than
were handled last season. One
prominent stock agent says the
decrease will average fully 334
per cent all along the line, and at
points this will show up even
greater. Last year the more
important places were feeding
from 1000 to COCO cattle, while
the heaviest supply being fed at
any one town 50 far this season
is 5000 head, which number will
he handled at Paris, Texas, and
also at Oklahoma City Purcell
will turn out about 2,2OO cattle
from the mills this winter,
Weatherford 1900 and Baliilger.
Texas, in the neighborhood of
1000. These towns, with the
two above mentioned. constitute
the sole list Of those places which
will handle COCO steers or up
wards this year
Eli TITUS, general live stock
agent of the Santa Fee, says there
will he mark, Il decrease in the
number of cottonseed fed cattle,
but looks for an increase in corn
cattle. The small operators
are the ones VINO are coming to
the front this season with the
corn CATTLE" said he. Last
year the little men, generally,
quit the business, as it was a
costly undertaking to contract
for corn and cottonseed meal.
Now, the small feeders are back
in the race again with corn of
their own raising, or else, feed
that they bought close to home.
The increase of cornfed cattle in
the Territory will equalize the
decrease in cottonseed stock.
Zone of the surprising features
of the cattle trade this year is
the apathy of the Kansas feeders.
The big operators are generally
leery of feeding this year, be-
cause they claim prices of fat
cattle, prices of corn and prices
of feeding steers do not harmon
ize.
This reduction in feeding,
will, in my opinion, be large
enough to cause values to hold
on much higher plane than
traders had anticipated. | look
for no disastrous breaks in the
fat cattle market during the
winter or spring months. VAL
ues will, of course, be below
those current last winter when
conditions were favorable for
high prices, but they will not be
so low but that feeders who have
used care and good Judgment
viii not cone out with profit to
their account. Those who look
for the fat cattle market TO go
all to pieces will find them
selves agreeably disappointed be-
fore the year is out, The coun-
: llS - apparently lu44 VI N"''io,
but there is Il place for every
hoof, and the pessimists should
not count on the total supply
being rushed to market in n sim
, gle year. If prices should go
lower than the feeders are salts
= fled with, the result will be that
the cattle supply will be held in
the country and thus the supply
will be curtailed to meet the de-
mand. III fact, there is just as
good winter before the farm
ers this year as there was last.
If anything. the outlook is better,
= tor a farmer with plenty of cat
tie, money and corn is well off,
! regardless of the future markets,
: while the farmer with precious
! little feed, and nothing in sight
= except II temporary inflated mar
y ket is not to be congratulated as
much as his brother with plenty
of feed on hand. "-Drover' &
! Telegram
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