The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-12-07
Preserve Your
Breeding Stock
Breeders Are Assured Liberal Profits for Hogs
Cattle and Sheep


led 10 i've stock, about 80 per
cent being fed to hogs in the
principal corn-belt states.
That leaves only about 20 per
cent, or less than 600,0O0,000 bush
els, to be marketed as corn.
Now, suppose that only 20 per
cent of the entire corn crop were
fed to live stock, which would
leave 10 per cent of same, or
about 3O0,0O0,000 bushels more
corn to be sold as corn.
That would mean an increase
OF fifty per cent in the quantity
OF corn thrown upon the grain
market.
Now if we take into Considera-
ton the further fact that there is
an estimated yield this year in
the United States of 3,2l0,000,000
bushels of corn, which IS an in
crease Of 627, 100000 bushels over
tha crop of 1916, or 456,0O0,000
bushels over the previous five
year average, and to this increase
we add the above increase of
some 300.000.00O bushels which
would ordinarily be ted to live
stock, to say nothing of the mil
lions of bushels heretofore used
for making whiskey, alcohol, ETC.,
1t Is easily seen that the usual
quantity of corn thrown upon the
grain market and sold as corn
will be more than doubled during
the season just about to open.
The amount of corn consumed
directly as human food is so small
compared to that fed to live stock,
that any probable increase in the
former would scarcely affect the
proportions of the entire crop;
so that, Notwithstanding any such
and in spite of the great
world demand for cereals, there
is more than likely through the
coming year to be a large surplus
OF corn thrown upon the market
for grain, with resulting declines
in market value, while the newt
able coming scarcity of live stock
at market, as the result of the
heavy marketing, both last year
and this, which leaves the short
age in the country, together with
the greatest demand ever known
for meats. leather, wool and all
animal products and by-productS,
gives a positive assurance of sus-
tanned prices for live stock of all
kinds.
OF course, market prices will
fluctuate temporarily, but the
readiness with which pricesquick-
ly recovered from the effects of
every overcrowdin9 of the mark
cts atteStS the sound underlying
basis of values.
If growers generally will only
hold their animals, regardless of
temporary fluctuations, until
ready for market, instead of rush
ing them in on every break for
fear the good prices will end, and
thereby tending to break the
market, there would be compare
tivelv even and regular marked
values at well-suStained levels
and violent fluctuations would be
avoided. ~
While there is no doubt con-
Cerning a general shortage of hogs
in the country, yet the owners of
hogs have little confidence in the
future of market prices for hogs
while the disposition to hold
marketable corn for higher prices
is strong, and these two tenden-
cies together are likely to pro-
duce within the next sixty days
a considerable rush to market
with young hogs, causing a tenn
porary decline of prices. with re-
sultlne great scarcity afterward
and still higher prices than now
prevail.
The logic of the whole situa.
ton points to liberal profits for
those who study it broadly in the
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