The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-19
NATURAL CENTER
FOR STOCkYARDS
Railroad Man Says Salt Lake Is
Overlooking a Big 0p-
portunity.

! Thousands Of tons of beet tons and
beet pulp are annually thrown away by
/ Utah sugar beet raisers. and that enor-
nous waste is nothing less than crime.
/ That material is valuable for sheep feed
/ ing and it would bring the farmers an
immense sum If they only realized it,"
/ H. w. Prickett. formerly connected with
/ the Kansas City stockyards and now the
I general agent Of the St Joe < Grand
Island railroad. with offices in the Judge
building here. made the statement to
Herald reporter in the Kenyon yesterday
| He asserted that Utah farmers have no
realization OF the money they throw
away
Mr.. Priczett desires 10 impress on Utah
farmers the necessity of utilizing beet
tops and beet pulp for sheep feeding. He
sugar beet and sheep business. He said
in an interview:
1T is remarkable how very few sugar
beet raisers here in Utah realize the
value of the sugar beet tops and pulp
which they throw away. but which would
be converted into an immense amount
Of money II they only knew how de-
sirable those products are TO the sheep
men.
Shipped East and Back.
They do not understand why il is
necessary for shippers here to send
sheep east. whereas the same sheep are
sent back here within a short period, all
dressed and ready for consumption. The
two problems could be easily solved by
feeding the Utah sheep with beet tons
and beet pulp. and the establishment OF
stockyards here, all of which would be
of tremendous advantage to the people
both in the price and quality of the NUT
ton
Il was talking to one of the most prom-
inent packers in the United States a few
months ago. when | was connected with
the Kansas City stockyards. and ne ad-
Vised me that practically no mutton had
been shipped east from the Kansas civ
stockyards within the past eight months.
be said that western people do not know
/ that there are one-fourth more people
I in the west who are consuming this pro-
duct than there were five-years ago. and
that the demand is increasing every month
/ for mutton.
Another reason why the consumption
I Of mutton has fallen off in the east is
! because about one-third of the people
1 are out Of employment on account OF the
costly meat All that is q substantial ar
/ gument why Utah should have its own
sheep dressed here in stockvards instead
Z OF paying the additional charges for NUT
| ton entailed by the transportation of
sheep 20 and from the middle west stock
/ yards.
Are Twin Industries.
/ Utah farmers ought to be educated to
/ the value OF the beet tops and beet pulp.
: In Colorado they have been found to be
ers think they are worth nothing Fur
1hermOre. they do not seem to think of
sheen
in the travel of the flOcks over their
lands
Sugar beet raising and sheep raising
ought 10 be twin industries; they ought
interests In common The fertilization
I from the travel of sheep over SUGAR beet
/ land increases the production of the land
TO the amount of one and one-haIf tons
enhances the value Of the land about So
per acre yearly
That has been thoroughly demon
strated in Colorado, where land valued
at $50 per acre five years ago has been
increased by the travel of sheen over
it to the value of 500 per acre now. Some
valuation Of $3.50 per acre all due to
the beet industry and the feeding of sheen
on 5eets in that state.
1t is well known fact that eastern
packers buy sheep which have been fed
on beet tops and beet pulp and sell the
| dressed product at higher price than
that OF sheep which have been fed on
corn and alfalfa hay. That is because
the dressed meat of sheep fed on beets
Is whittier and shows better on the hooks
TO the average butcher buyer.
Natural stockyards Center.
Moreover. it cpsts 50 cents per head
10 feed sheep on beet tops and beet pulp
and il costs S-25 per head to feed sheep
on any other commodity. such as corn.
alfalfa hay, etc That is another advan-
tage IN feeding the sheep for the sheep
men would derive more profit from the
sale OF their flocSs If the cost of feeding
could be reduced so materially
Utah. especially Salt Lake ought to
be the stockyards center of the inter
mountain region The cost of transport
tatiol now paid by sheep men to have
I their animals dressed in Kansas CITY
/ Chicago. Omaha and other packing cen
tiers is simply money wasted Stock
yards should be established here and
they would work TO the advantage of the
general public. the sheep men and the
sugar beet rai<ers''
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