The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-01-22
EYtention Of Bull Trade.

Us tuc llNC SUOCh JUL NUS Wy
north are quite busy just now
looking up new fields and mar
kets for the rapidly increasing
production OF registered bulls.
Farm and Ranch wants to bid
them God Speed in the good
work and hopes 10 SEQ the time
come in the near future when
every state. county and neigh
oorhood in the Union will be
fully supplied with registered
bulls OF tho best beef breeds.
Our friends who arc asitating
this question seem to forget
that the average usefulness OF q
bull on the range does not ex-
tend beyond five or six years
and that for this reason ranches
that are supplied with bulls now
may Le heavy buyers next
year. The demand therefore is
almost unlimited. Breeders may
not always be able to roalize the
fancy prices that are now being
paid, but they may safely de-
pend on always finding u market
for their really good bulls at re.
nunerative prices. Discussing
this proposition the Drovers'
journal of Chicago says:
Every branch of fancy beef
steers shows q tineness that CIR
only be gotten by pure blood; al
choice beef has a pedigree,
though it may not be recorded.
While the nun Der Of beef cattle
has steadily decreased, the pure.
bred bull trade has constantly
Increased. Nearly all tho avail.
able territory suitable to cattle
raising in the west is nos occu.
pied. In sections where ranch.
ing is conducted on large scale
pure. bred bulls have been
bought in lots from five 10 car.
load or more, until practically all
the big ranches are supplied.
In Texas. Iowa, Kansas, Nebras.
ka, Montana and the Dakotas
there has been q wonderful i'm
provement in the herds, as is
shown by the gradual lessening
of the time required TO place the
finished product on the market.
"As the small stock farmers be-
comes established in the west he
will become purchaser OF pure
bred bulls; he will buy largely of
the breeders east of the Missis'
sippi River. The small farmer
already in the far west has been
backward in buying bulls for the
reason that the transpOrta'
ton charges on single animals
are, to his way OF thinking. too
high, sometimes amounting 10 as
much as first cost of the bull.
The rates will be regulated,
however, as the demand among
the small farmers increase. The
railroads will realize that one
bull hauled over their line to the
west will mean at least three
carloads Of steers per year, vast
ly improved in quality and in
creased in weight, TO be return.
ed 10 the great Chicago marke,
| and other markets in the cast.
In this the road will receive tho
benefit Of increased tonnage. The
South presentsa new field for
: the pure. bred bull business. and
one railroad has already trans
ported free OF charge numbe I
, !. of bulls to Mississippi, in order
to establish a precedent and aid
, in improving the beef'growing
+. industry in that state.
:, In some thlckly populated
districts where the farms arc
small, there may be found farm
ers who own pure'bred bull:
which are rented TO the neigh
bors for u small consideration
The farmer buys the bull calves
the progeny of his bull, and i'll
them for market. In this wa!
he may send several carloads o
beef to market every year with