Show L LIVESTOCK IV E n r 1 r I 1 Z 1 1 I 1 0 a will price of beef advance some 0 of our beet beef mailers makers express the tha bellet belief that beef will twenty flys fly years feats hence be ba much higher than at the present time more afore than that they assert that the general average price tor for beet beef during the twenty hv years to come will be very much higher than during the twenty flat years just past wo we are afraid that this will prove true it certainly will unless wo we find some way ol of feeding beeves more economic economically aly in the future 1 than la in the past it Is desirable that the people have an so abundance of 0 meat I 1 food and they cannot get an aban I 1 1 dance of meat food unless it la Is cheap let not the beet beef maker imagine that he bo will bo be the gainer by a greatly increased price of beef in tho the future it if beet beef becomes high it will be because the cost of producing it has become great in the domain of beet beef making theio Is still open competition and there probably will be ba for a good many years to como come but that the price must advance seems about certain the area ot at c heap cheap land on which cheap beet beef has beer been made in the past Is being constantly r reduced and more and more ot of our market cattle are being produced on high priced land on such lands it Is becoming every year a greater problem how to so feed beeves as to make money out ot of them there are a good many farmers always going out of beet beef raising because they have become discouraged at trying to solve the problem of bow to make beet beef on high priced land every man inan that thus gives us beet beef production increases the price of beet beef by reducing the supply the only factor that would seem to enter into the problem on the side ot of low price for beet beef Is the effort biow now being made by our experiment stations to encourage the growing ol of forage crops with greater nutrients than in the past such as alfalfa where it can be grown and a highly developed variety ot of torn corn carrying an unusual proportion of protein it it ever becomes possible to grow a variety of corn having double the usual amount of protein in stalk and grain with no lessened yield per acre the process ot of beet beef malting making may ha be reversed and the silo led fed steer become tho cheap meat producer |