The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-07-03
POSSIBILITIES
OF BEET PULP
ROBERT v. CARR SAYS IT WILL
REvoLuTIoNlzE INDUSTRY.
CATTLE DECREASING
Representative Of Chicago Stock
Yards Says That the Quality Is I'm.
provins-Looks for High Prices for
all Kinds Of Cattle.

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From Wednesdays Daily.
Robert ". Carr, the representative
Of the Union stock yards at Chicago,
Is enthusiastic ove the possibilities
OF feeding beet pulp and alfalfa
meal to live stock. He thinks it will
become one Of the big industries Of
the section tributary to Billings. MI.
Carr vas in Billings yesterday on his
way east. Speaking to a Gazette rep
resentative he said:
Montana has kept pace with other
western states and in fact leads the
procession when it comes to improve
ments in the livestock industry. OF
course the vast herds on the open
range have been cut down but the
grade Of the stock has been wonder
fully improved. A decrease in num-
bers but Improvement in grade is the
proposition confronting the stock
grower In the great west.
There is little doubt but what the
feeding Of alfalfa meal and beet pulp
will revolutionize the livestock indus
try in the west. There Is hardly a
western state but where sugar beets
can be grown. This is especially true
OF the Yellowstone valley country.
The fact that last Monday cattle fed
at this point on alfalfa meal and beet
pulp sold on the Chicago market for
S7.85 demonstrates the possibilities Of
such feeding IN the west.
Few Cattle Ii Corn Growing States.
You ask as to market conditions
this fall. Well, the facts are Just
these: There are few cattle in the
great corn growing states. In fact I
have just returned from an extended
trip over Indiana and southern I'LL
nois and I can vouch for the scarcity
of all classes of stock in those states.
Corn has been high-too high to feed.
Now, there is every prospect Of a fair
corn crop and the farmer buyer will
naturally come onto the market
strong. There is little doubt but the
price Of stock Of all kinds will hit the
ceiling this falA
Preaching Better Cattle.
For years Chicago has been
preaching better cattle. For years
Chicago has been giving a mammoth
international stock show purely as q
matter Of education to the stockgrow-
ers OF the United States, and more es-
pecially to the west, since in the west
is the most pronounced change of con
ditions. The International Livestock
Exposition given at Chicago the fore
part of December is not a money
making proposition; in fact it is a
heavy loss to the Chicago market, but
the money is spent cheerfully to adj
vance the livestock interests Of the
country. Any advancement, any prog
ress, any betterment Of the interests
Of the stockgrowers Of the country
means that the great Chicago market
will share in the benefit. Thus the
stock show as an educational institu-
ton for the stockgrower is of mutual
benefit to shipper and market.
The Chicago Market.
While the question Of breeding and
raising livestock 10 Of vast import
ance there is another question that Is
Of equal Importance, namely the prop
er market to patronize. Naturally the
stockgrower is in the business for the
money. Naturally he is going to sell
his cattle OF his sheep where he can
ecure the most money. Incidentally
1 might say to the stockgrowers of
Montana that Chicago can and does
pay the better prices the season
through for western cattle than any
other market, in the United States. II
this Is not true why then have some
Of your most influential stockmen,
men who have made q success Of the
business for 20 years past, shipped al
ways to Chicago? The reason Is SIM
ply that the Chicago market is the
steadiest. The aus of 1t being the
steadiest market is due to the fact
that it is almost next to an impossi-
bility to glut 1t. Hundreds Of buyers
furnish a demand for everything that
comes into the yards and on account
OF the great facilities for handling
livestock the stun is speedily dis
posed Of.
Helping the Shipper.
shipping to Chicago means that q
section Of country is going to receive
the benefit of the only competitive
market in America. It is an abso-
lutte fact and one easily substantiated
that the Union stock yards Of Chicago
is the only livestock market in the
United States not owned or con-
trolled by the big buyers. Conse-
quently the Chicago stock yards peo-
pie whose business and prosperity are
dependent on the prosperity Of the
stockgrower. are vitality interested in
seeing that the shipper gets his price
and q square deal all along the line.
rhicapn,a EFFORTS are not along the