The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-05
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rEor a F. puecAx or THE ArABamA rurr

i pounds corn.
 The amounts of diggeStlble protein l in the above rations approximate two and a half pounds, the am ounts CT 1 digestible fat and carbohydrates about Fifteen pounds.
 These values exceed somewhat the usual practice of American feeders put are no greater than the standards ac' cepted in France and Germany, and cer- tainly none too large for plantation l mules. which are usually very heavily worked. The rations given are. or course. only examples, and can De var led in any number of different ways to suit the convenience of the Seedei. :. As, previously stated, the bulletin Is a most valuable one to the South ern rice planter and stock feeder. ard should be in the hands of everyone 90 engaged.
 Raise Stock.
 The relativly high price of cotton has turned the attention of many Of our farmers from live stock to the staple. just as they were beginning to get ready to pay more attention to the former. That this is for the timc be- ing the more profitable is quite ros- sible even, probable, but every cotton crop means a drain on the fertility of the farm without adequate return, and how long that policy can be ke2: up without bankruptcy is a question. It Is quicker money than rearing good stock so Is gambling nu.cker f you win, but year in and year out. all things considered, 1t is the stock farmer who is the money maker. and the man who
 knows when the country is cotton mad
 turns his attention 10 breeding good |ctn hot xpill caP1 the farms of his neighbors is he who will
 reap the greater benefit-S.b krlan. Andrews on Beef Cattle. Following Is in part the address de- livered at the National Live Stock con- vention by E. Benjamin Andrews. Chan cellor of the University of Nebraska on the supply and demand of beef cat tie.
 Is the supply of beef cattle keeping up with the demand?
 In a sense. if the least time and space are allowed for, the supply and the demand of an article traded in are always equal. Any cause tending to sunder them Is at once annulled by its own operation. If the supply tends to run ahead, prices fall and demand in- creases the supply again If demand starts to grow away from supply, prices rise and demand falls off again, or else supply increases to meet the demand. The effect of these move- ments Is immediately an equation at some price or other between supply and demand. Strictly, therefore. de- mand can never for any length of time or width get away from supply.
 Of beef, like any other merchandise, there will always be a supply at some price. It will never cease to be pos sible for people who can pay the price of beef to obtain 1t, though. of course. the price might conceivably so soar that beef could be procured only by those of ample means. And there will always he a demand for beef. We'll to-do people enough will forever exist to keep up a certain demand, however high prices may rise.
 There are some causes at work tend ing to diminish the supply of beef cat tie and certain to do thisf unless de- mand increases--Aa question: to be con- sidered in a few minutes. The free pasture area on the public domain is lessening. Thousands of acres of that pasture have been ruined through lack of supervision. The Federal OK pas ture has also been invaded by home stealing. The process is still rapidly going on--destined to be furthered, too, by number of resources whose power is just coming to be felt.
 One of them is irrigation, public and private. We need not go so far as some irrigation enthusiasts to be con- vinced how vast an era now too dry for profitable agriculture wil by and by become good agricultural land. As much more will be drawn from pas turage little later by the creation of forests. this process seen to be accen- tuated by the growing impossibility of obtaining sufficient timber for the needs of this great country from the sources hitherto known. There is not a coun- ty this side of the Mississippi which might not grow it's own timber; few that might not besides this, grow for export: many-very man-where tim Der would be the most profitable crop which could be raised-far more so than pasture grass. This profitable ness will be discovered ere long, with the result that artificial forests will spread over millions of acres now sandy and bare.
 Wherever houses, hedges and fences are erected. ponds created and filled and crops raised. the effect Is felt miles away. Contiguous sections that were dry are made less so and begin to'blos- som. Later they, too, are practically farmed and, in turn. take up the mis- sionary work. the advanced points of agriculture as 1t invades the desert This is what Is meant by us in Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas in the pro- verb that the rainfall Is moving west ward. Afforestation In any tract will work similar miracles far and wide in the neighboring dry regions.
 Clearly. public pasturage must in no very long time cease to be an import ant factor in raising beef. I myself query whether the market price of beef Is any longer determined by the cost of cattle production on the public do-
 main; whether, in other words. the supply derivable from this source has not become SO small as to lose all ef- feet upon prices in the great centers.
 few years ago, take it. the Chi