Show The Livestock Situation I big country and so soi The West is a i fir as a livestock is I's is con concerned the mI in m- m in-I in I dusty for many man Y years ars particularly I California was as In the she i hands j of abig a abig n In I big few to operators whose complete domination of the tho cattle herds was as seldom challenged But with our ours great development we ve find need for a a better and more stable I meat food supply Hence the season season- son son- 1 il ii range production upon which e e have relied almost entirely in the past for our meat food does docs not meet pastI th the I present day needs nee s lon k n scattering and the small ranches roust must be bo looked to for our supply IT Ti- s g condition is per per- perhaps perhaps I haps no more moro welcome to some of the timers theold-timers timers old than was as the coming of the pioneers to the original C but such is 15 the mark of pr grelo gres ec and those who ho dont don't keep step with this condItIon are simply out of luck Many so called so-called feedlots ire bo b n ng operated in or big co isami rig centers and in m that re ent e f w L a a e C prone to follow the tho th tendency of bIg operations This r hO haw ver bIgI I may 60 po as sho m show ins y th iii Tw wy to be follo followed ed sooner or later bv by the individual ranches ho ho will h I h-I h I feed his own on t the e lanch ranch i because that 13 1 a the most e Iway way ay to do it I Many any of the the- th Western st es are eU aneed ad in m the use of sut I feeds and concentrates in finish teed teed- ing mg ing cattle and ind lambs IambS As a mi m te teof I of fact California mist look to thit th I SOUl source e for a substantial lal part of its I moat meat food requirements reqUirement Getting the I i supply drom from a lar large e number of small producers is good business because It proVIdes a diversification soil fe t it 11 1 l- l lIt it It anda and a greater gi eater assurance of per per- per nce for the reason that all the ems s are not in m one b b- ket A recent article rt which came to my notIce pointed out outCry Cry ery aptly that the wealth of is largely agricultural agricultural agricultural tural and is in m the hands of the ln s The Dictatorship t has his been successful because it has profited by the work ti ork ork of the thc peasants The difficulty in n most of our oper- oper iho it le of today K rc thit th wo we 0 want some some- somebody body e c se to tl do the real re work ork an 1 there thero is no line of business bUnness more need noLd needful ful of or the personal element clement than the farm Hired Hued help is one of the most diffIcult problems to deal with and andI I there is no laboi as good as es the fam fam- family family ily libor because the m interest is there I fam-I The farmer that raises aisea alses a working family is 15 the most successful Operations on i 1 i big cale ecale his s some advantages ad by reason of or economies s ngi that thet can be made in tilling plant ng i and harvesting but where all of the labor is performed by tho those e seeking the daily duly it Jt is not so good and must represent an ex- ex expense expense ex expense pense that goes to offset a substantIal substantial substantial part it if not all of the advantage As history goes the small e and diversified farmer who LS is willing willingto to do a days day's work ork and brings his family up the same way is seldom heard to and such opera opera- operatIons operations operations are to be bo encouraged rather r than discouraged y tho the argument that the small mall f firm farm rm is u doomed and that thit the big ope operation atlon is ra the thing ire e want I f |