The Winslow mail., 1921-04-22
Mr.. E. H. Crabb, president of the

Arizona Cattle Growers Association,
is now on a trip to the northwest in
the interest of the cattlemen of the
state, for the purpose of formulat-
ing some plan by which Arizona cat
tie may be shipped ont this spring.
Now for the second year Arizona
cattlemen are confronted with de-
plorable marketing conditions, max
ing it impossible for them to- sell
their cattle to the feeders of the
northwestern states where they are
matured for market, and this unfor-
Junate situation has actuated the
Arizona Cattle Growers Association
in conducting an exhaustive invest
igation that may bid fair to become
at least a partial solution of the
marketing problem which adds eacl
year to the perplexities of the cat
.lemen of the state.
Arizona, as is not probably well
Known, is mostly breeding ground
or cattle, and the larger percentage
of the steers and heifers raised here
are each year placed upon maturing
pastures in Colorado, Wyoming, Ne
Jraska, Montana and other states.
It is ordinarily the custom for our
Arizona cattle, before reaching the
owners of such pasture lands in the
northwest, to be handled by one or
more middlemen or distributors who
through this apparently necessary
practice, have derived the gret.tel
portion of what profit has in the
.ast few years been made in the
production of cattle
The Arizona Cattle Growers AS
sociation, taking the initiative in
this important move for the welfare
of the cattlemen of the state, has
been conducting for. some little time
cursory investigation into the
practacability of marketing the cat
tie direct from the producer to the
feeder, thus eliminating distributing
charges for mutual advantage, but
for the time being has been most
vitality concerned with the necessity
Of affording some immediate means
of relief to the cattlemen through a
shipment of their product this
spring. The information gathered
by the Association shows conclus-
lively that in these northwestern
pasture land who want cattle but
on account of the scarcity OF mon
ey, are unable to buy. While Mr.
Crabb on behalf of the cattlemen
of the state, on this trip, will secure
first hand information entering into
the maturing of cattle in the north
west as involving the present as
we'll as the normal conditions, he is
urgently interested in a solution of
the difficulties facing the cattlemen
at this particular time. A number
Of plans to meet the emergency has
been brought to light by the Asso-
citation, namely, shipping the cattle
on a basis of percentage Of gross re-
ceipts to owner at time of sale; or
buying the pasture or feed at de-
finite sum and disposing of the
feeder or fat cattle as opportunity
presents; or making an actual sale
of the cattle to the pasture owners
accepting their notes renewable for
period sufficient to mature the
cattle; or on an otherwise purely
profit sharing basis.
During his Investigations up there
Mr. Crabb will attend the annual
conventions of the Wyoming and
Montana CattIemens' Associations
and in this way will be afforded an
exceptional opportunity to secure
the information he is after. This
matter may be considered as prob
ably the most important move in
augurated by the Arizona Cattle
Growers Association for sine time
and demonstrates that the cattlemen
Of Arizona are alive to the need of
clarifying and improving the COM
plex marketing situations on which
the producers of all agricultural
products are exerting their energy,
and the greatest interest attaches to
these efforts on the part of the state
cattlemen's organization
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