Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-12
IOWA FEEDING CATTLE
Scare Over Probable High Price
OF Corn Subsidies in Northern
Part OF State
ARE MAKING GOOD PROFIT
PROFIT
Farmers Who Have Put Corn Into
Steers Realize From Venture "A
Word in Defense of Small creamer-
les = Banking at Britt = Wilson's
Observations.
Special to Times-Republican.

special lTleS-ReDuDllCGn.
Thornton, Jan. 12-As the winter adj
vances some noticeable changes in the
stock feeding situation are 10 be OBJ
served from time to time in the differ
ent parts of the country. AT first nearly
everybody believed that corn would
command a price so high that feeding
would be an Improbable proposition
under any circumstances and for awhile
it looked as tho every feed yard III
northern Iowa would soon be empty.
In one instance it was said that a man
included in a hog shipment little pig
that weighed only eight pounds. A lit
lie later on some began to express
doubt about the expected advance in
the price of corn, insisting that If ev
erybody sold corn and nobody fed stock
the corn demand would necessarily
slaclken and it might pay to feed after
all. Some cattle feeders who bought
feeding stuff from the northwest at a
low price, fed for a short time on corn
that did not mature sufficiently to
grade and that consequently was COM
paratively cheap, struck a good day In
getting their stock on the market, and
have made money at the business.
Up to, two weeks ago one might
drive thru the country for days and
see not a single steer on feed. but since
that time a considerable number of
cattle have been put into the yards of
feeders who expect to keep them there
until late in the season or until corn
makes material advance in price. 1t is
said that many stockers grown in the
northern part of the state are being
sold to farmers in southern Iowa who
have seeded down worn out land
there and expect to summer feed their
cattle during the coming season.
Many people have been asking the
question. where is next years supply
of beef to come from If nobody is GO
ing to feed?" 1t may be answered that
large number Of stockmen are be-
ginning to believe that plenty Of cattle
will soon be on full feed and there
seems always to be an abundant supply
of hogs regardless of the oft repeated
statement that there are no hogs left
In the country"
IT wish you would say word in de-
Tense of patronizing the local cream
cry rather than the centralized insti-
tutions" said a man the other day. II
want to give my experience in that
line" he continued. II am milking a
good many cows and one big creamery
has for a long time persistently solic-
tied my patronage. Whenever the con-
Germ decides to make a temporary adj
vance in prices I receive quotations
which know are calculated to make
me dissatisfied with the home cream
cry. When it is paying ordinary prices
I hear nothing from it. Once 1 decided
to try sending out one can of cream as
an experiment. made three trips to
town to get my can back and received
just 10 cents less for the cream than
would have obtained at home. provid-
ing of course that the test had been
the same, which I have no reason to
doubt. Subsequent price quotations sent
me from that creamery haven't In
terested me in the least"
While working in rural commun-