The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-04-19
New Mexico Cattle and Horse
Breeders Association to
Open Headquarters in City
Within Short Time.
HAS OVER 200,O00
HEAD OF cows LISTED
More Than Quarter of Animals
Shown on Tax Roll Owned
by Members of Growing Or.
ganization.

That the meetings Of the New
Mexico Cattle n Horse Breeders
association. Of which he h president.
Ire to he held IN Albuquerque here
after. that these meetings viii be OF
greater financial benefit to the city
jhan the session 81. the Panhandle
Soupthwcstern Stockmen's %assccia-
ton held here last mo1th. and that
his association soon viii open offices
here for an extended campaign OF
mcmbcrship-gctting asd the ain
a of a number Of activities Of
special use To stoCkmcn were the sal
tent statements Of an interview cs-
tracted from " Il. Morley 81 Datil
yesterday.
Mr.. f.oriey. who had been in tn"
east, was on his way home. or his
way back from kansas city he stop.
ped AT every place whcre he heard
they had bulls for sale. he declared.
and saw many things that surprised
and int -ested him and which are Of
interest. not 10 say financial import
anoe. to the catilemcn of New Mexico.
In the Panhandle country. for in
stance, he reports the sale Of over 600
yearlings stun that will be a year
OF age IN ~July-sold AZ $40 around.
This stun. Mr. Morley said. has been
bought in New Mexico last fail at
around S2s. Now. he said. why
don't We ge, that extra money here,
less "A reasonable allowance for
freight They will say that these
steers were big and fat and all that,
when the buyers came to New Mex
leo the cat,leman continued. "bu'
they actually weighed but f27 pounds
on the average"
Mr.. Morley pointed out that as soon
AS his association was under way "
You'd he able to compile costs and
sale figures which would be of I'M
men value 90 its members.
"Nowadays.' he said. they come
oyeg here to this state TO buy stun,
and the ask "A certain price
and the buyers say We cannot pay
that. That is what we raid In the
Panhandle for bettcr-bred stun ana
all the time the stun they bought u
blood and bone the same M ours. be-
cause the Panhandle man bought IT
from US.
''Our association can. and I think
will. put an end to this.
There are n great a Other
points on which We cattlemen shout
get together. DO you know there h
no business wherein "A man IN so de
pendent on his ncighbors as the cat
tie business? II is true. My stuf
sirays onto my neighbors' lands, hi
stun strays INTO mine. We must co
perate to protect M interests.
Then there IL the question of bulls
Never a coNman but complained hi
neighhor wa taking advantage of hi
blooded bulls, that he buys I "A Ia
figure m puts on the range Tha
Is, unless he was getting the heneii
81 some OF his neighbors' bulls an
did not want to agitate the subject.
And salt. Maybe one man put
out lots Of salt and his neighbo
none. The neishbor's cows get IN
salt. Just the same. They 10 over ol
Mr. one Mans ang for 4.
And forest service problems. An
predatory animals. DO YOU kno'
tina a 'loafer wolf Is estimated /
XIII an animal a week all year long
Mostly he kills calves. That mean'
In nifty weeks. how much? Taking
any way at al. "A loafer kills 81. 90
worth of stun n year,
Yet down In southwestern Ne'
Mexico, where our association wa
organized and where it has proved II
guCcess and worth We killed -
",fer wolves and mountain lions las
winter That's some saving, 81 W
paid t2i each bounty on these an
mals. There's another Ting bount
The law says the counties may lev
not 10 exceed one min via min
bounty tax. Ia most counties whcr
they nrt eager TO cut down tNe Ia
levy or spend the money Ion some
thing elise they levy a tenth of "A NIL
or az least a very small frhctioa, The