Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-10-14
AT WEBSTER CITY !.
ON OCTOBER. z
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That is the Date Upon Which the
Beef Production Special Will
Stop Here for As
Minutes. +, +.
GOOD SPEAKING is PROMISED
The Railroad Company and the Beef
Producers Associations Join
Hands.
GOOD SPEAKING is PROMISED

"A Beer fTOuucLlOu special,
carrying lecture, cars, car of prize
winning beef steers, and a car for
the accommodation of the speakers
who accompany the train, is to he
run comparatively by the Northwest
ern Railway and the Iowa Beef Pro-
ducers Association on the C. & n.
w. Ry., in northwestern Iowa, Octo-
Der 21st to 31st. ~ "
| Approximately eight stops of from
As minutes to an hour in length will
be made each day.
Speakers we'll known in beef cat
tie circles will discuss the beef short
age, prospective markets, methods of
|cheapening beef production, beef
production and the saving of fertl-
| ity and similar topics of interest to
the farmer, the land owner and the
cattleman.
Among the speakers will be such
men as Charles Escher Jr., the An
gus breeder and feeder, of Botna,
Iowa; George Burge, the Shorthorn
breeder of Mt. Vernon; R. w. Cas-
sadly, the Hereford breeder of Whit
ing; Profs. c. F. Curtiss, w. J. Ken
lnedy, W. H. Pew, J. NJ. Evvard, and
others from the Agricultural College
at Ames.
The various beef cattle breeds will
also be represented by their secre-
taries or their representatives.
Booklets and pamphlets on var
ious phases of beef production will
be distributed free at the train.
Good representative specimens of
each of the leading beef breeds will
be found on the cattle car.
At present and prospective prices
beef production is a paying business.
The farmer or land owner with
whom the labor and fertility qucs-
tons are live ones cannot afford to
miss meeting the Beef Production
Special and hearing the experts.
There are 100000 head fewer
beef cattle in the United States now
than six years ago. During the same
time Iowa's beef cattle decreased go
per cent or over 100000 head.
In states farther west, on whom
Iowa has drawn for supplies of feed
or n hn 80
even more marked. There ranches
and ranges have been turned into
farms and cattle have been sold.
Moreover there is a world short
age of beef. Population is increas-
ing and the worlds beef supply is
ACTUALLY decreasing.
For these reasons there is small
prospect of cheaper beef in this
country either Immediately or for
many years to come. If the Ameri
can people eat beef they must pay
for It, at least as we'll as they are
paying now.
At present and prospective prices
beef cattle produced on Iowa farms
not only pay better than the aver
age prices for the grain and other
saleable feed products they eat, but
they also make a profitable market
for the corn stalks and other rough
feeds not directly marketable at
profit. They turn cheap feeds not
easily handled by other classes of
stock, into high priced beef. Of ev-
en- greater Importance, the raising
and feeding of cattle means fertility
added to the fields and greater yields
for future years.
1t is for such reasons as these
that the c. e. N. w. Ry. and the
Iowa Beef Producers association are
cooperating this fall in running a
Beef Producers Special over the
North western lines in northwestern
Iowa The train will spend two
weeks in covering the territory. It
will be worth the time of every
farmer and land owner in the COM
munity to visit the train, hear the
speakers, see the prize stock on ex-
hibit and get the booklets to be dis
| tributed.
The train is scheduled to be in
Webster City on the afternoon Of the
22nd-Wednesday of next week
| from 1909 to 1854 o'clock.
The train will be at Ellsworth
| from 11:04 to 11:49, at Kamrar
from 1909 to 1884 and at Wool
stock from 2:09 TO 1854.
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