Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-06
= me Desere Meas BY Franz w. 0"p'""'

.,t,.ation OF II. He tells me we can
bbn',hie our corn crop which ~ now
,,,or,h more than TWICE az much as an
~ gold and silver that man digs from
W. Earth I'm one year, by merely using
w nroner seeds. and that by the )u-
s,e,,,,s application OF the fertilizer OIL
NE air BY means OF bacteria we can
INN the worn out lands OF the south
into very Garden OF Eden
OUR MEAT SUPPLY
Bnt I started out 10 tell you about
nv conversation with the secretary on
American meats His bead has been
fun OF them ever since the lnNestlga
ton OF the beef trust. and he has made
a number OF quiet trips during the past
year to the packing centers, dropping
into the various establishments with
out notice 10 inspect their cleanliness
ana sec whether Uncle Sans agents
are doing their dlty. He has been
onf on the ranges and looked AZ the
animals there, and has made frequent
visits to the barns and stockyarcs OF
the corn states.
NV first question was as 20 our meat
supply The secretary said
1--WE have more meat ard better meat
than any other country Our animals
are out of door animals. They nave
fresh air both summer and winter, ana
the percentage Of disease is siuau.
Fresh air l. as necessary 60 the beast
MS 10 man. II makes pure blood, and
pure blood makes good beef pork and
! mutton. You ask as TO our supply l
| ran give yog the fgires OF the stock
/ ON hand the first Of this year. We
then had about i700000O cattle, 5O,-
600 900 sheep and $4,000 600 hogs. IN
addition, there We're about 2O,OOO,O0O
mich cows These are scattered all
over the United states. and they are
the source Of the meat we are eating
today"
MILLIONS ~ MEATS.
"Wbat are these animals WORTH"
III you take them as they stand they
| are worth many millions, Our mich
cows now approximate $500 1000, coo In
value. our other cattle are worth $780,
| 600 coo. and the sheep and hogs, s2s3,-
| goo 900. AS to the value OF this stock
when ground up into meat and other
| products. that would run into the BILL
! lions II they were all turned Into the
packing houses and sold"
OUR IMPROVED STOCK.
| How about our cattle, Mr. Secretary
| Are We improving our STOCK Dy preeu-
ing from year to year,
Eyes. The long-horned Texas animal
has about disappeared, and the same Is
true of scrubs of every kind. We are
importing the best Of the foreign breeds
and are greatly increasing our number
OF pure blooded cattle. At the last cen
sus about one IN a hundred Of all OUT
cattle was pure blooded and this ] pei
cent was, according to some estimates
worth 10 per cent of the value OF all tn
cattle. We had then about 100000 pure
olooded animals"
where did our cattle originator"
THE first that were brought to Amer
lea came with Columbus to the Yves
Indies in 1883 They were taken from
there 10 Mexico by the Spaniards anC
thence spread northward into Califor
mia, Texas and the other states along
the border. Those cattle were the an
costors of our Texas cattle. The Span
iards also sent some into Florida, tn
descendants Of which found their wa.
north and formed the basis of the cheaI
cattle of Florida and the adjoining
states"
How about our blooded stock?'
I'VE imported some from England 4
early times, but none of Importance un
| III the nineteenth century, The Here
fords were flrst imported into New Yor
and Kentucky. and the Shorthorn 500
followed About 1870 came the Pole