The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-30
wINNEMUccA, NEVADA, SATURDAY OCTOBER 30, 1920
Noteware Writes of
Livestock Conditions

The Dill puts hides, livestock, meats,
wool and practically all agricultural
products on the free list"
If every farmer and stockman In the
state could read the editorials, COM
great livestock ceDters, Chicago.
Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, st. Paul
and Sioux City, the farmer in the
great corn belt of the middle west,
Texas, and the cotton-grower of the
south, appearing in the October issue
of the Producer" published at Dem
YER, the official organ of the National
Livestock Association, he would be
brought to a full comprehension of
the danger confronting these two vital
industries condition, not theory
exists.
The following extracts from the
October number of the Producer are
quoted and should awaken us to the
imperative need for change
Liquidation is bad enough-confisca-
ton and bankruptcy are far worse.
Oregon Cattlemen
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Cattlemen in Oregon are still en-
gagged in cutting down their herds to
the point where they can take care of
them.
Stockmen are unable to secure
loans. Those who are working on
+, borrowed capital are either broke or
badly bent. A loan of 100000 on in
dividual note, last year, to pay for
! feeders and hay, this year has been
I turned down for $4,000 ON ranch
property worth several times that
amount. Good COWS locally are worth
six cents and good steers eight cents.
These have grown to maturity on $40
to $25 hay.
There is no demand, and no estab-
lished price for stock cattle.
The hay crop is larger than for
years. Stockmen cannot borrow the
money TO buy it. Hence no demand.
Only one sale of 700 tons sold at $40
per ton including pasture.
Texas Grass Going to Waste
Range conditions never better than
this season. Few pastures, however
are more than half stocked. No money
i to buy cattle. Large numbers Of
1 young cattle and cows daily going II
market which ought to be kept on the
range for restocking purposes.
Sharp Decline In Cash and
Future Prices For All Grains
During September
On October 4th, compared with q
month ago, both wheat and corn were
about fifty cents per bushel lower
oats twelve cents lower. Seventy-five
cent corn is practically assured, but
owners are not buying cattle and the
future of the cattle market is wholly
lacking. Cottonseed cake declined
! $500 per ton during September
Cake or meal of forty-three per cent
protein content offered at Texas com
mon points at s45.00 per ton, cold
pressed cake $4,000 per ton. Corn
crop 800 100000 bushels, the largest
on record.
Deflati0n and Debts
After prices have been lowered tl
a basis where everyone thinks the
other fellow is receiving what he
should, who will have any normal OF
excess profits on which to pay taxes
under the income tax law. Surely not
the farmer and stockman.
Cow Prices VS..
Shoe Prices
Until a good fat (grass) cow will
bring more than the price of foul
pairs of shoes (the hide alone should
bring that much) what chance has
the COW man to make any money a.
all? A raw hide from an eleven hun
dred pound COW sold at Reno, Octo
Der 21st, for 1925, a year ago 1t would
have brought $1,000
Wool sand Hide Trade
i Nothing doing in either market
About half the wool manufacturing
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