Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-09-25
WHAT OF The HOG AND
CATTLE MARKET--IT
WILL GROW BETTER.

Guessing the winter course
hog market is open to all. One
guess is as good as another" is
the way the editor of the Breed
ers Gazette closes a discussion of
the hog market future.
Many persons interested in
cattle are of he same opinion in
regard to beef prices for the
winter, although there are some
who, after summing up the en-.
tire world situation, predict that
now is a splendid time to buy
feeders, and start them on the
road for the spring market.
They base this opinion on the
hope, which is well founded,
that the Argentiee supply of
meat, from which Great Britain
is now purchasing, will be ex-
hausted before spring. Assum-
ing that this conclusion is cor
rect, America will be turned to
for the supply. Anyone who has
had experience in feeding cattle
can see what the results must be.
Optimist as to future prices.
is further added to by the fact
that many of the big western
feeders, where thousands of
head of cattle have been made
ready for the slaughter house,
have virtually concluded that
they feed conservatively during
the coming winter. This would
work to advantage of the south
ern farmer who ordinarily does
not feed in quantity sufficient to
have any great effect on the
national supply of fat animals.
Balanced against this. how
ever, are unsettled conditions
tbruout the world, a natural
contraction of meat consumption
due to the almost complete de-
> mobilization of the world armies.
, and a return to the normal meal
, instead of dominating meat
i diet as was the case with many
. of the armies.
Speaking particularly of the
hog market, the Gazette says:
Interest in the probable winter
, course of the hog market is no
= less keen at this moment than a
year ago, when the food admin
! istration in response to popular
a clamor, arbitrarily determined
the fall prices. Several factors
y will exert an influence. not the
least of which will be the policy
of the grower in cashing the
crop. Last year a monthly ap-
prehension that the government
minimum would be withdrawn
was undoubtedly responsible for
J, the reckless sacrifice of thous-
r. ands of young hogs that could
have been matured at a profit. in
" the light of subsequent events.
5. This season, with trade on a
5. normal basis, growers will have
an incentive to feed out on the
d assurance that low prices will be
~ recorded during the early part of
: the winter packing season.
II "Of special significance 10 q
t. statement made by Herbert
n Hoover before sailing from
er Europe last week, when he said
I'd 'Wharves and warehouses In
ty northern European ports are
n overhowing with foodstuffs,
I'd principally meats. fats and dairy
i'll products, sent by merchants al
h. over the world"
1t is stated also that $40 pork
was the result of the United
States government buying enor
nous meats for the benefit o.
"a famlshed European countries
n Judging from the statement o
80 Mr.. Hoover, apparently thes'
. countries have been provides
with normal amounts of foods
ne and that their demand for othe
stock will not be so frenzied il
the future.
Without a native supply O
S. meats. however. Europe faces
ir, long winter which leads one t
ice belisve that the stores of whic
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