The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-04-30

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tana stockgrowers during the mex
few years is to see that the range
and corrals of the state are not file
up with scrub cattle from easter
stockyards and dogies from south
western ranges, said Wallis Huideko
per, president of the Montana Stock
growers association, in his annua
address to that body at Billings.
Huidekoper said that the dr.
kyears have forced the marketing o
more than 100000 cattle from Mon
tana and that the restocking of tn,
farms and ranges is the most import
ant task ahead for the next few
years. He warned members that il
financing their operations the!
lshould seek backing from banks
that would stay with them and tina
were interested in getting the better
grade of stock into the country.
| Regarding railroad matters, he as
serted that there was a great neeC
for faster service between shipping
points and the eastern terminals
eve had faster service on beef trains
80 years ago than we have at pres
emit" he declared. He praised the
federal biological survey for its work
in Kidding the stock country of pred
atory animals. President Huideko-
per's address follows in part:
''The year just passed has been
one of unusual trial and trouble for
the stockmen of the northwest and
our livestock interests have suffered
severely. For most stock owners it
has been a time of heavy expense and
limited profits with considerable loss
but there is one thing which has
impressed me most forcibly. / have
never heard one word of complaint,
no sobbing, no wailing over hard
luck. Our big-hearted stockmen have
taken their medicine and played the
game as it came, with the feeling a
turn would come and that the future
held much in store.
''The most regrettable result of
our adverse range condition has been
the premature marketing of our
young cattle and particularly the
breeding stock. Our state today
does not carry over 40 per cent of
its cattle of two years ago.
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cover 100000 head had to leave
borders this year, some to southern
pastures which may return, but it is
believed southern stockmen will pllr-
chase most of them. The sheep in
dustry has been cut into in similar
manner and flocks greatly reduced.
The stock retained has naturally
been the best and with them as a
are care being used in
replacement purchases, Montana is
assured of a better grade of cattle
and sheep than she ever had before.
1t may, however, be several years be-
fore we will again reach what can
be considered a normal export of
cattle, but sheep will come back more
quickly.
cone thing we must be careful of,
and that is to see that Montana is not
again filled with a lot of scrub and
logic cattle from eastern stockyards |
Ind other places. Every effort |
should be made to discourage the i'm
porting of such stuff and this is the
time to better our
herds, and quality should be our slo-
IAN. Let us place Montana in class |
~ herself as the state holding more
'ood livestock than any other, not
My as matter of pride, but for
financial and economic reasons. The
Grub COWS and poor bulls have gone,
is trusted, never to return; and as
city destroyed by fire is rebuilt on
etter and more prosperous lines, so
Nth our livestock industry, and we
ee today future of better cattle
nd sheep, moe economically hand
I'd, and we will be making more
honey. A resolution along these
mes should be passed at this meet
lg.
Measures of Relief
GAS the drought continued into [
lie summer months of last year it
scame apparent that drastic action 1
ould have to be taken toward some [
'otective relief for our stockmen. !
D discuss these matters a meeting |
the executive committee of this s
sociation was called by your presi- l
INT to meet in Billings June 27. It /
as found at this meeting that most S
'neficial work had already been s
arted by the livestock commission S
meet the emergency. They had s
spectors hunting pastures and b
azing privileges in other states a
here our cattle and sheep might be a
owed, and were arranging for re- t.
ction in railroad rates to and from Il
ese points. il
at is to be regretted that the b
ovement of cattle and sheep to the c.
tower lands of Minnesota and Wis Y
nsin did not prove successful, but tt
r animals could not thrive on the Y
nix grasses of that country. On the n
her hand, the movement of herds a
d flocks to the southern pastures a.
New Mexico, Arizona and Texas a
owed most beneficial. as these cl
lntries, drought stricken them Y,
YES for years, now have an abund- ts
ce of good grass and water. 1t W
Ems like a retrograde movement to
, cattle shipped from Montana to
? south, where many originated
d is the first time in history that til
III thing has happened. Credit
d thanks should be given those OF
20 helped us during the drought