The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-11-19
FARMS TAKE THE
PLACE OF RANGES
Cattle Raising Yielding
Ground to Agriculture
in Oklahoma
FEW CATTLE ON RANGES
Conditions Have Driven Many
Stockraiscrs to Either Quit
or Go Broke

pONCA CITY, oNlt, Nov Is
Farmers ,t,tl.,n,,. ct the present
time nro u,lur urged ly 1.-Two stock
and uthDr utEuul .ItiuuH, TO hold onto
and frod q Few ttltlc, ni least duiiui
the coming wiuiur This plea iH is-
sued because ut The very evident
shortage iu the beef supply brought
nuout by 80 many Ca'ilcmru ANA
feeders. I'm particular, going out Of
busiucrs. Tho ruiy way to head or
"a serious shortage 70 Us maintained
|H fur each faIUrr To- feed rt least
It small hord ~ nucf cattle.
on. live fto,kmlu, who haa re-
cont, .umploipd % tour of Ia" old
time ppitI. country uf western KAN
paR nnl oklahoma. declares tho COM
dItiun b. toriuua and should be
viewed d. the American people as
such I'm uu ar'u where la former
ycura th,rn were thousands uf cattle
,ra2uC. thcro az but H small mum
Der now. although the grass was
mover hytlcr and range conditions In
genera more ideal
n ia explained that many cattle
mon have gone broke trying To play
tho game. Live stock conditions. n
fmctultiou IN PRICES. n decided drop
IN the market, have made many men
lie business. quit the game entire
Is. and now 1t becomes necessary for
the individual farmer To take upon
himself tho feeding OF beef
what Surrey showed.
Tho survey of tho range country
IN Kansas and Oklahoma. which was
made recently by the live stock rep
rcsentativc, showed that there are
a.. H..
upon which not "a single herd of cat
tie IN feeding, In four counties In
southwestern Kansas. through which
he passed, he saw less than goo
head, whero In years gone by he
would have seen many thousands.
There were only few scattered
punches ut cattle, occasionally some
horses and mules on the ranges. and
no sheep.
on this trip, this representative
met Cattlcmcn by tho score who had
either become bankrupt or having
become discouraged had quit the
business because OF the hazard due
TO relatively low and unstable mar
ket prices and rapidly advancing
costs OF handling. In this connoc-
ton he reported that while the ca
tie business has gone down. the
creased, showing extensive forage
crops. The possibilities were never
better for the farmers themselves
TO feed some live stock.
. 1t In maintained also that together
with tho present movement ON foot
to hold crops for greater price,
particularly corn, the other movn-
mont to feed cattle could he taken on
easily and In this manner at least
a portion OF tho corn could be sold
on the hoof. II is said that many
cattle. as yet not finished for mar
ket. arc being sacrificed at present
low prices, whereas they should be
held wherever possible and made
ready, thus bringing an undoubtedly
better price n little later on.
In this particular locality tho only
range left Is in tho western Osags
where the pasture and water were
never better than this year. IL IN
said. however, that practically every
cattlcman in tho western Osago Lost
money this year. Some are reported
To have sold their herds In the mar
ket at n less price per head than was
paid for thom, These conditions aru
preventing the usual feeding OF cat
tie during the winter and live stock
men everywhere are predicting
severe shortage as the result,