Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-04-03
BUILDING i|LOS
HELPING ALONG
PREVENTS WASTE OF FEED
MAKING POSSIBILITY OF
SAVING MORE CATTLE

The man who builds a silo and
buys cattle 10 fed II not really 10
the livestock business. that IL. he
does nothing 10 Increase the number
Of cattle In the country. There Il
no denying that he l. an aid 10 the
industry. he ads II 20 the extent
that the sllo. a. means OF saving
feed makes II possible for cattle
feeding 10 becOglemOre common on
the farms Of Oklahoma and the
southwest. NE hslps To make a great
or demand for feeder cattle, winch
,n turn has the natural effect Of
raising the prize OF that kind Of
stunt This at once puts the bust
ness Of feeding cattle on a close iig.
uring basis The new man loses
money 90 the experienced feeder
makes unsatisfactory profits compar.
cd with previous years This means.
eventually. ony the survival Of
the fittest the man RhO knows
his business This will bring some
reaction In favor Of the feeder aud
siill leave the producer fair mar
gin
There Is no .enBe IN one end Of the
business making all the money SO
long as there Is 80 much room for
careless management that no one can
lose money. some one soineW here D.
not getting hh Just share OF the pro-
tits Of production. For a long time
this has repre- enied the cattle rails
erB situation hut the way thihga
look nov. Il seems that the man who
Erows the siuif Is IN fair way 10
yet eOmethlnE for his trouble Nov
that this fact is being generally un.
dcratOod. all are falling over them
selves 10 get into the cattle business.
How long Il vill take for the pcndu-
lum 20 swing to the Oiner extreme
remains 10 bee seen.
Many OF u5 can remember whom
men In the cattle business were 90.
Ing broke on every side Many Of
these men IN Westrn Oklahoma we're
known as commission men. They
we're no more cattlemen than many
who have erected sllos are cattle
feeders. Fer few years the operat.
Ing margin became very small 50
much SO that II required some real
knowledge 81 business to stay In
hundreds OF these men threw ~
their hands and began TO contend
that there was nothing In the cattl,
businesses. Evidently supply and de
mand hand somthng 10 do wOth pro
/ fits OF the producer At that time
/ {. 5, statistics show that for IN,
/ last thirty years leading up 10 1900
CATTLE had increased practically three
| bundled percent-from twonty-thrc,
/ million In 1870 to siXty-sercn mil
/ lion IN 1900 They had been practi
cally doubling each ten years fol
thirty years The pendulum has Il
start back sOmetme, 30 without am
oampaiss Isgsinst ovenroduction
cattle decreased In numbers siN mil
lion In the next ten years The cen
tus OF 1910 found US with only six
iy-One million cattle Of all kinds. ant
on January first. 1914. the estimate
by the I $. bureau Of statistics give
us ffty-six million "a decrease o
eleven millions In thirteen years.
The showing Is much worse 10
beef cattle. for dairy cattle have In
creased three million since 1910
This would give US thirty-siN millioi
beef cattle today compared with ~
~ million in 1900. when production
Z btcamc Improbable. bnd twenty
million milk cows today compared
with seventeen million In 1900. Whe
Their these figures should be- used a
argument I'm favor OF the beef Typ
rather than the dairy type OF cattle
I cant -ay. But II may help sem
Texas who has sworn that hc neye
would milk cows for a living. to rak
up courage to invest In high grad
Shorthorn or Hereford bull 10 I'm
prove hi- herd.
Now that the price leads one I,
believe that there T. going 10 he soin
none, iu raising cattle, everybody !
IN hurry 90 get into the business
Every fellow figures that he can
81 fiill aud let his neiyhbor maxi
81 tho money. SO stock cattle ar
higher than ever was known before
Whether the future will Justify ]
remains 10 be seen To read the fig
urcs Of somc OF the northern stOcI
farmers on cost OF production, the
make u look life close figuring pro
position To hear everybody but tn
consumer talk. feeders and beef cat
tie are Just about a. cheap as the
can bc produced and stay In the busi
ness. Tho facts are that feeder aftc
feeder has lost money this year. tn
question naturally arises Have "
nov got about a. many cattle a. th
market will take at a profit to th
grower and feeder, No one seem
10 think 80. Cheaper production
the way out. or rather the way ~
or perhaps the way along Here
the place Tor the silo spiel and
real place 10 rthe lilo. For the west
ern farmer. kaflcorn and the sil
! win carry the live stock business IA
Their and sgaint greater odds tina
any other combination ne have thu
FAR worked QUIT Il.
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