The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-15
areas bordering upon arid lands

and 1lIoQ anu CROPS TdiSeu, the CT
feet is felt miles away Continuou:
sections tina were dry are made les:
so and begin to blossom. Later. they
too, are profitably farmed, and il
turn, take up the missionary work
the advance posts of agriculture as
it invades the desert. This is what
is meant by us of Kansas. Nebraska
and the DakOtas in the DrOverb thai
the rainfall is moving westward. Al
forestatiOn in any tact will work
similar miracles far and wide in
the ~neighboring dry regions.
Clearly, pubic pasturage in
no very long time cas- to be an inn
portant factor in raising beef. | my
of beet is any longer determined by
the cost of cattle production or the
public domain; whether. in other
words, the supply derivable from this
source has not become SO small as
to lose all effect upon prices in the
great centers.
The principle here involved is
more familiar in other departments
of industry. When Hawaii was an
nexed. although it's sugar product
thus let in free of duty, was consid-
cradle. the price of sugar in the Unit
ed States did not fall. Had Hawaii
been able to supply our entire mar
ket. prices ought certainly to have
raw sugar tariff.
The act that in any commodity.
a small part of your supply is pro-
duced very cheaDly does not affect
in the slightest the general selling
price. To do this, the cheaper sup
ply must be ample enough to meet
the entire demand.
A few years g | take it. the Chi
cago price of beef cattle was fixed,
usually at least, by the free pasture
cost of production. Perhaps the con
siderable rise. Of prices during 1892
may be accounted for by the trade
then for the first time becoming
aware that the feed cost of beef and
not the free pasture cost must hence
forth rule.
The production of beef cattle is
cut down by the spread of the dairy
industry-stilI another cause whose
full scope is not vet in sight. All
along east of the free pasture belt
are small herders. who. a few years
ago. were herders and nothing more
are now to a considerable extent
producers OF butter fat. The great
majority to date milk beet breeds
their main interest still being the
production of beef stock. But this
| think is rapidly changing, the dairy
profit being found greater than the
other. AS this goes on many of
these will buy Jersey instead of
Hereford bulls and cease raising
beef altogether.
We now turn to note circumstances
tending to increase the production
of beef, ven surprising the demand
to remain the same. One of these
is the multiplication of first class
beef creatures. A battle of the
breeds is going on. One man thinks
there is no beef OK like the Aberdeen
Angus: another argues for the Here
ford; while o a few still maintain
that on the whole the Shorthorn is
the best beef maker. All three of
these noble types as well as a num-
Der of others fully worthy to be men
toned with them are advertised
their merits made known. and speci-
far out on the frontier. the result
being a vast increase in the pro-
duction of beef over what would oc-
cur if the scrub stock of earlier years
still fed in our pastures.
There is equal progress in breed
ing methods. Hand breeding is more
and more Dracticed. The difficulty of
this in great herds is of course i'm
mense. hut ways will be invented to
make it possible, and greatly profit
able as well through vast saving in
place of the present wholesale waste
occurring in animal vitality. at the
breeding time.
AS some beef farmers are eking
out their profits by producing cream.
so many dairy farmers are learning
how they may advantageously raise