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Show i 4 VOL 5, HOl 18 ROOSEVELT, UTAH, cisvil3i4a:iM: 15, 1923 ITFTY CHITS PER YEAR Light, Young Steers Taking Place Of Aged, Heavy Beefers in The Markets of The World SWEET CREAM POSSIBLE Years ago practically all butter was churned from sour cream but the chief demand now is for better quality sweet cream for this purpose. Certain precautions makes deleast livery of such sweet cream an easy There is no disputing the fact interests must be paid is at that aged, heavy steers, which made 50 cent greater at the end of task. per up the majority of the cattle supHealthy cows provided so by ply a decade ago, are relatively the feeding period. At the central test are of course the first rescarce in all sections of the coun- markets it is estimated that fully which after is necessary" it quisite, try. This condition is particularly 90 per cent of the demand is for for the milkers to be clean and true Any married man will hand the laurels to Louis gladly O'Neal, in th west, where the cattle business is more than ever before on a cow and calf basis. It is doubtful if this condition is brought about entirely by the fact that cattle supplies of . all kinds are less than normal. There has been a decided tendency during the past twenty-fiv- e years to market beef cattle at younger ages. Old timers will remember that the markets were supplied throughout the year with aged cattle and in sections where a great hardly worth Little Mary, who had fallen fH, deal of pen lot feeding was done, it begged for a kitten. was not uncommon to see steers on It was found that an operation the market which weighed in excess was necessary for the chuus cure of 2,000 pounds. Nowadays, the and that she must go to th hospitheavy steer, according to official al. Her mother promised that if she United States government quotawere very brave she would have tions, is an animal weighing from the very finest kitten to be found. 1300 to 1500 pounds. Many of the As Mary was recovering from the v"sern markets receive so few influence of the anesthetic, the steers in this classification tha: no nurse heard her quotations axe made on such heavy muttering:. It's a rotten way to get a kitten. weights. It was the general practice in KEEP TAKES DOWN the range country, only a few years carago, for the range cowmc.r. The best advice that can be givv- :re from ry his steers until they en to communities anxious to exthree to five years old. It was alpand and develop industrially, is ways possible for the buyer to loto keep taxes down. cate large numbers of steers five High tax rates and Industrial de- years of age and over. Now it is a who insists velopment do not go together. The problem for the tofeeder locate any sizesteers community that is too fast in pro- on aged 3 years viding "improvements by excessive able strings of cattle past millionaire San Jose, Cat., cattleman, who w$n a contest by eating 110 biscuits. The contest was the result of a wager. The first hundred are the hardest, says Louis. it taxation is foredoomed to restricted growth. Industry today is going in a new and direction toward once only had an op- interesting decentralization. Where centrally located cities portunity to become Sreat, the country town portant share in the ... . There are small-towntomorrow will be s industrially has an imnew move-min- t. . today that outstanding, in- dustrial centers. And chief, among e advantages they must offer will be a low tax rate. There are other towns which cam d"er many attractions, et they willexpensive be passed over by because they have made the Mistake of spending money waste-l-y with resulting high taxes Reasonable taxes Invite progress, in-dst- ry, development -- xes and prosperity. High the investor and discourage OUll It'T, doubtedly this is an economic I fn the cattle industry which been brought about by the d on the part of the public for ively small cuts of bee:. Frew standpoint of the cattleman, or. deveolpment is all in hi' far s ' been demonstrated that the maiket economical time dis-cattle in the breeding two-ol- i d the to is from the calf make not stage. Cattle do ient gains after that period 0 to the range Cowman's inter st, and other carrying charges, have veovetr, cattle feeders of costs that the actual feed are steer ling an aged, heavy han th-- i cent greater 25 per or of fattening the yearlings w'hile the younger ear-ol- d, as il will gain practically as the older steer. Moreover and nvfstment on which taxes animals weighing from 1200 down to the baby beef classes, which weigh generally from 700 to 1000 pounds. There is still a limited demand for the heavy, aged steer, largely from hotel and steamship companies. However, the latter demand is turning toward the lighter animals and the heavy steer i; class, actually in the specialty which .for the cattle feeder may well mean the "dangerous'': class, from a financial standpoint. With the present scarcity of heavy steers it seems probable that prices for such stock will be relatively favor able at the markets, but it must be very limited and even a few extra borne in mind that the demand is loads of heavy cattle may prove to be very difficult to cash at a favorable price, with a strong chance ot reducing prices on all classes. The consumer prefers the cuts from th lighter animals, because more of less waste, smaller bone, tender meat and the fact that in healthy. Clothing used for milking is then kept clean- and even the milking stool is washed occasionally and kept in a clean place. Milking with wet hands is a filthy hab- it The strainer takes out sisible particles but unless kept sterilized may contaminate the milk from one milking to the next If clothes are used these are boiled immedaitely after use and dried soon. The same applies to other milking utensils which, unless properly washed and sterilized, may be the greatest source of mijk contamination. Use of alkaline washing powder (not soap) and a small iron box sterilizer is practical on the small place where steam' boilers are not available. Some bacteria get into the milk unavoidably but the multiplication may be kept to the minimum if the milk or cream is cooled as soon as possible and kept so. Where cold running water is available it may be run around the cans in a portion of the milk room. Otherwise, the majority of city apartments, some ice or artificial refrigeration; the housewifes cooking facilities is needed. do not enable her to utilize heavy Much careful work in keeping cuts. milk and cream sweet is lost in So all in all, the trend toward it. Shaded roadside transporting the younger, more quickly develop- milk stands and care in covering ing beef animal, seems to be sound the cans while they are being haulThe same condition ed will avoid much trouble. economically. Some and mutton is true of the pork use heavy jackets f r dairymen trade. Most of our demand is for cream- cans similar to those now Iamb. Where there was. a good out- used by ice cream makers. The gome years let for aged weather, practice of paying for" for mut- growing demand limite the ago, ewarn on grade is a benefit to the ton can be tak care of by aged good farmer. Poor cream makes ewes. The popular weight of hogs poor butter. Poor butter sells for is around 170 tOv.200 pounds, a poor price, and th farmer pavs whereas a few years ago before the the bill. days of lard substitutes the market topping hog weighed, from 300 in-to AS YOU lute Trmr 400- - pounds, so our meat food redustry is in a state of evolution Recently the proprietor of a than more ordinary quiring hotel served a fine plate of country thought and action. strawberries to a patron. Patron: "What beautiful With the 2,000 subscrib- where did you get them? berries! ers of this paper twice a Proprietor: "I raised them. Patron: "Do you put fertilizer on month, it affords the them? - merchants of the Basin a good medium for Proprietor: "You can put anything you want to on them, but we generally put cream, and sugar |