The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-06-22
The Doggy Must Go.

StOCkmen VINO nave been on the
Kansas City market the past few
days have had an object lesson in
the Importance Of growing high
grade cattle that ought to give Il
stimulus TO the business of grad
ing up the herds Of the southwest
country. While all kinds of cat
tie have been declining, aud thin
stock was II drug on the market,
buyers from the corn belt states
were securing the yards for high
grade stock steers and many of
them had to be satisfied with
something less to their liking or
go home empty handed. There
were plenty of cattle in the pens
and owners were anxious to sell
them at prices practically of the
buyers own making, but the quail
ity was not right. Cattle are very
much like potatoes in one respect:
When prices are high any kind
will sell, but the cheaper they get
the more particular purchasers
are as to quality. Doggy steers are
cheap because nobody wants them,
and nobody wants them because
they are cheap-cheap IN quality
as well as in price. Doggy steers
never make market-toppers, and
still rs rule it costs more to put
100 pounds of gain on them than
1T does on high-grade steers. The
high-grade steer has better
frame Oh which to put flesh, has
more stretch to him, has better
constitution, is n better feeder,
and yields more pounds gain to
the bushel of grain than the doggy.
Some times it paws to feed dogies,
just as it pays some times to raise
small potatoes-if you can't raise
large ones. If potatoes are scarce
and consequently high, the frugal
housewife will be content to pre-
pare the little ones for the table,
notwithstanding the extra labor
and patience required. When beef
steers are high, packers will buy
dOgies and pay good prices for
them. In the fal! of 1903 several
feeders took doggy steers to their
feed lots from the Kansas City
market, buying them at very low
prices. In the early summer of
1904 all kinds of beef steers we're
high and these dogles, if fat,
commanded good prices and show
ed good profits for the feeders.
Right now all kinds of beef steers
are low and the best are preferred
by the killers, because they are
relatively cheaper than the dogies.
If the packers want cheap beef
now they buy southern grassers
which are u good deal cheaper
than the corn fed dogies. If they
want good beef, they buy high
grade steers, because there is
high percentage of kill to them.
This is the case nine times out of
ten. Observing feeders see this,
and that is why they want the
hlgh-grade stockers and feeders,
and are willing to pay the prices
for them.
The moral is plain as day. 1t
IS that 1T behooves stockmen TO
Gull out their pennyroyal breed
ing stock and use only the best
females and purebred males for
breeding purposes. 1t pays to do
so now and each succeeding year
it will pay bigger. The doggy has
had his day.-Droyers Journal.
The facts brought out in the
above clearly vindicate the doc
trine that has been continually
preached in the columns of this
paper and clearly establishes the
fact that the progressive breeders |
Of range cattle in the state of !
Texas and the entire southwest !
cannot afford to any longer en-
gage in the production of a cheap
grade of cattle, Conditions have
not only changed in the range
country, but they have changed
m those sections where we have
usually found a market for our
surplus stuff,
The man who comes to Texas in
search of cheap stuff will not buy
icrub stuff. lie is simply trying
% pick W cattle that will answer
lis purpose for as little money
Is possible, and if you tell him
'ou have II bunch of scrubs on
land that you would be pleased