The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-07-01
SUPPLY UF BEEF
IS DECREASING
In a Few More Years United States
viii Have to Import Inferior
Cattle.

In the last twelve years the supply
of beef cattle in this country has de
creased 100000 head. In 1900 the
United States had one beef animal
to each one and one-half persons
With this situation as a basis, Prof
w. j. Kennedy director Of the Iowa
State College division of extension an
authority on meat animals says I'M
| less the people of the United States
change their plans and produce more
beef cattle, we may be forced in fe ~
years to import meat from South
America And 1t Is an inferior grade
of meat that is imported from the
southern ATTITUDES, II the slaughtering
stock and methods are not improved
over what they are now writes Dr..
j. H. McNiel, former dean of the
Iowa State College school OF veterin.
airy science, who receives $4,000 a
year as veterinarian for the Brazil
Land Cattle, and Packing Co., OF
San Paulo, Brazil. DR.. McNiel writes
to Director Kennedy: You mention
that North America might be forced
to import beef from South America
am fearful that we do not have the
quality of beef here in Brazil tina.
would satisfy the epicurean taste OF
h. %
most serious part of IT is that we do
not hare enough to feed our own PEG
pie. We do not have sufficient stock
on hand and on account Of present
methods it will take several years to
bring about change or changes rem
edying the conditions. Argentina is Il
much the same conditions as the U.
s. the high prices have drawn sew.
erly on all female stock and now there
is shortage. Present methods Of
slaughter and caring for meat and
meat products are wasteful in the eX.
IRENE. 1t has been come easy, 60
easy" without the spirit so domin-
ant in North America to save every
thing"
When machines are introduced to
do the work Of many men in any trade
there is temporary distress in tS5t
craft during the period of adjustment
to new conditions. That Is what this
country is experiencing just now IN
the meat supply. While our popula-
ton be fed has increased about
fifteen millions during the last ten or
twelve years, the number of beef cat
tie has actually decreased some thir-
teen million head. The great ranges
Of the west have been broken up by
settlers and the immense herds have
all been cashed in.
The removal of the supply of grass
cattle in the face of an advancing pop
ulation has sent beef sky high and
when beef goes up all other meats go
up because the demand for meat |
must be met from some source. Tenn
porarily we are suffering a meat fam
ne.
In time our farmers upon their small |
farms will so increase their produc- |
ton OF mutton, pork, poultry and even |
beef that the present famine will in |
a measure be relieved. 1t will take |
time to meet the new conditions and |
rs time goes by more people arrive to
be fed. A country in which the nat
ional family grows at the rate of
twenty or thirty millions every ten
years keeps the family provider hump
ing his back to keep the children in
meat. Hence the tip to the farmer
that 1t will be a safe investment to |
stock up with live stock for some time /
to come. The vast empires OF pasture
land Of the west are gone. At present
prices OF grain, pasture land can hard
~ be afforded on the average farm.
We must come to the silo and all the
year around feeding Of ensilage. Eu-
'ope has been growing its beef in the
stall for almost 100 years and the
United States must come to II when
he conditions for her to meet are the
same as those which Europe had to
meet