Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-10
NEcEsslrv OF MEAT PRoDUc.
TON IN MlsslsslPel VALLEY
DISCUSSED At AMEs.
AGRICULTURAL EXPERTS
see PROFIT IN IOWA BEEF
High Priced Land May 30 Used Profit.
ably For Industry-vaIus Of Grass
Lands May es Greatly Increased -
Dean curtiss Presents Interesting
statisties-stats Officials Speak.


Ames, Jan. ,1O.-Beef cattle can be
grown with profit on high priced land
in Iowa and elsewhere in the Missis-
sippi valley, and it must be grown
there il tine increasing population Ct
the United States is to be meat fed
That was the keynote of the speech
es Of half dozen leading Iowa cattle
men and college men at mass meet
ing Of Iowa State College short course
students for the promotion of the new
Iowa Beef Producers Association.
Prof. w. J. Kennedy, head of the ami
NAL husbandry department, declared
that the experience of hundreds of men
in Iowa proved that the beef growing
industry pays when handled as any
business should be. What he said was
supported by John Costing. OF Kansas
City, who cited the profitable beef
growing industry Of England, where he
was reared; by Howard Vaughn. OF
the Wildwood farm near Marion;
George Burge, Of Mt. Vernon, and Dean
Charles F. Curtiss.
Plea For Diversified Farming.
Dean Curtiss, who ranks as one of
the foremost students Of agricultural
conditions made many significant
statements.
II haven't much faith he said. Gin
an agriculture that is not diversified
and that does not have the livestock
industry as its basis. There are vari-
Gus theories of conducting agriculture
without livestock, but you can not
point to a single spot on the face of the
globe where agriculture has been sue
cessful thru many years except with
the accompaniment Of livestock grow
ing.
I'VE must encourage the livestock
industry in Iowa and the middle west.
might die out. In the east. as we
dwindled. In our Mississippi valley it
has decreased. The impression has
gone out that cattle can not be raised
successfully on high priced land. 1t
can be and it must be. While our
population is, increasing at the rate of
a million q year. the supply of beef
has been decreasing. From 1903 to
1907, the beef cattle marketed fell off
100000 in numbers; from 1907 to 1910,
$4,000. In Texas the beef cattle sup
ply is 100000 short Of what it was
ten years ago. Then it sent 100000
head to market annually. now only
$4,000. These conditions tend to con-
centrate the beef cattle industry in the
midle west and Iowa must produce its
share.
"The industry can be made to pay on
Iowa land If heed will be given to
several factors. 1t is important to
mature animals early and market them
early. That can be done by putting
good blood into the herds. It is pos
sible to bring an animal to two-thirds
Of its market value in the first year: 1t
is q waste to feed 1t two years more
for the other third. Good sires must
be secured for breeding. Inherited ex-
cellence lies at the bottom Of success.
There must be more attention to grow
ing grass. 1t is a fallacy that our land
10 too high for grass. It will not be II
we improve our grasses. In Great
Britain the percentage Of grass lands
Is one-fourth larger than here, and in
Holland one-third larger. With more
livestock we will get more fertility and
more grass. Then we must use the
silo. 1t has come to save one-third
Of feeding values of our corn fields,
which now goes to waste.
1--WE are not going out of meat eat
ing or meat producing. No chemist has
yet produced substitute for a choice
beefsteak."
Clarke Steals HoIdsn's Thunder.
Lieutenant Governor Clarke made it
clear that he stands for agricultural
education in Iowa. Il believe in this
short course and extension work." he
said. iowa will not. get all it should
out of it's college here until the col
lege work Is carried to every nook and
corner Of the state. The college and
its work stand for efficiency and that
IL the great desirable thing in educa-
ton and we need it for every man and
woman in Iowa. The college must
make our people more efficient not
only in agriculture, but in the indus
tries and in business. For the sake
of efficiency, too, the rural school must
be made better. A new school, a town
ship school or something like 1t, must
take the place of the old time little
district school. That is coming. It
must come for the old system is obso-
lete We must provide for more effici-
Client agriculture. Our population Is
increasing at the rate Of q million a
year and our land rs not increasing.
Don't you see what the farms have