The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-09-07

The populations of all civilized
nations have been growing much
faster than the general meat food
supply In England, Germany,
France and all European coun-
tries, as we'll as in the United
States, meat is scarce and dear,
beet has become a luxury and
the people are clamoring for leg
iSlatlon to give them relief.
The three greatest regions of
live stock surplus are Australia,
South America and United States.
Australia is just recovering from
( 4 severe drouth and her contri-
buttons must be moderate for a
number OF years to come. Argen-
tines live stock interests have
been crippled by three successive
seasons OF drouth, followed by
the foot and mouth" disease.
Argentine must first raise more
breeding COWS before she can be-
gin to produce a normal crop of
steers ready for slaughter 1t is
for this reason that they are en-
deavor,n9, by legislation, to pre-
vent the slaughter of calves and
OF all female cattle under 7 years
OF age. 1t will require from sew
en- to ten years, at least CalCula-
ton, for South America to really
recover. Besides Argentine sec
tlonS have strained themselves to
supply En9landS demands and
now Portugal, Spain, Italy, Swift
zerland, and Bermuda are draw
ing upon her supply.
1 Owing to the increasing de
mandS from foreign countries for
Argentine beef the annual Slau9h.
ter of cattle iar exceeds the in
crease of the herds, and leeisla
tion looking to the limiting of the
number of cattle slaughtered tC
the number represented bv the
yearly increase is proposed as the
sole solution.
Recent adViCeS from Argentina
show greatly increased prices for
all classes of cattle and record
prices for breeding stock. The
writer having visited South Am
erica only a few years ago at
tended the county fair at BuenoS
Aires, where they hold an auction
sale of thoroughbred cattle, and
one English 3-year-old bull brou-
Qht price equivalent to S2l ,250
American gold.
Brazil is not yet under head
way and cannot begin to export
for at least ten years or more.
Even with the tariff removed
on beet from foreign countries
the United States will get no beef
from South America because the
foreign countries have not enough
left to supply any other country.
North American cattle raiserS
have nothing to fear from South
American competition, Canada
has none too many cattle, and
severe climate, short season and
without corn cannot produce lar
9ely. Under normal conditions
England will Outbid the United
States and the world for all the
cattle that Canada can produce
The relatively low prices there OF
the past seasons were due to alb
normal conditions which may not
occur again in twenty years.
Mexico and Texas, torn by sew
eral years of drouth, followed by
a revolution, with her cattle in
dustry demoralized, will take at
least a decade to recover More
over, only common, cheap cattle
for grazing on what pastures are
left in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colo
RADIO and few other states can
be expected from Mexico and
Texas at best, and then not near
ly so many as needed.
Ever since 1907 there has been
a tremendous demand for cheap
beef, especially throughout the
denSely nODulatpd manufacturing