Show JIlt L Live 1 q f iV A Situ Los 1405 Angeles May 3 3 of af supplemental and intensive grain n feeding of cattle on the Pacific Const Coast the Southwest and the Inter Moun InterMountain InterMountain Mountain Inter tain country has been one of the outstanding features of the live e stock business during recent years Not Noo so long ago cattlemen generally de- de depended ended entirely upon Nature to pro pro- pro provide provide vide feed and water for their cat cat cat- cattle cattie tie tle The result was that the market was affected by periods of burden burden- burdens burdensome burdensome s some me re receipts when the grass and an pasture feeds were good and good and by b practically starvation at other seasons of tho the year Such 1 periods of f feast ast and famine in the marketing of beef animals naturally were reflected in the price trends During the months of havy marketing market market- marketing marketing ing of cattle prices were de- de depressed depressed pressed Unfortunately beef cattle marketing was heaviest also during I the warmest months when consumer demand normally is at low ebb In fn Cali California ornia and Arizona supple supple- supplement supplemental supplemental mental ment l feeding of cattle was started ya a 3 few months ago when cattle cattle- cattlemen cattlemen cattlemen men b began gan feeding cottonseed cake and hay in order to fatten or to hold hol holthe the condition of their C cattle in the late summer and early fall months previous to the rains This helped to relieve the market of many thin cattle thus taking out of the meat t channels the common beef which hums harms consumption With only th the fat cattle movin moving into consumer channels there is less beef available and cattle therefore the spring grass cat cat- cattle cattie tle season slump is becoming less les pronounced With the additional use of feedlots throughout the western useI I countr country it has b been n possible to t spread out the supply of beef through twelve velve months of the year instead of during only on four or five months thus eliminating much of or the ups and downs in price levels levels-a levels l a stabilizing ing ing stabilizing feature wh which ch is valuable not only to the producer but to the meat j distributor and consumer as well The fewer fluctuations there are in i I price levels the more satisfactory trade conditions are all around The use of grain stubble fields dry dr f I feed lots and supplemental feeds also als has to improve the quality of I i cattle distributors and gradually the meat I dis-I dis- dis distributors have bave been able to obtain a aI higher price for fed stock thus treat creat I treating creating ing a greater range in cattle prices so that the man with well bred and an properly fed cattle now is getting a fair premium The general demand for young beef including what is tenn termed termed baby bab j beef has also forced along the year rear around feeding and marketing of cat cab cattle tie tle The days are gone when the cowman could afford to hold on his place the plain and half fat cattle ordinarily ol termed cut backs be- be beC because C cause under present conditions with high carrying costs such as labor taxes and the cowman co cant can't afford to carry over those cattle do not finish The aged steer is getting to be unpopular with the public for the consumer demands the smaller cuts which come from younger C cattle tobe toi All AIl of this is generally admitted to be good for the cattlemen yet could hardly have happened the old system of country bu buying ing when the buyer topped the herd which was the prevailing practice before the establishment of open competitive markets for all kinds of merchant merchant- merchantable merchantable able live stock The public market system has resulted in a premium being paid for better finished stock has g given given en th producer opportunity to sell his stock when ready for market yet ret to get them converted in into cash as fast as they were finished and through comparison and competition has demonstrated to the producer the grades and ages preferred by the packer bu buyers ers The cowman also has been forced force to ad Nature in providing water for his stock through the building for of water reservoirs digging of wells 5 and piping of springs Cattle do nc not t make satisfactory gains on supple supple- supplemental supplemental mental feeds or dry feeds unless 3 there is plenty of good clean water available Summer of cattle cattle catti and lambs Iambs has been started in the alfalfa pastures n such as the e thi Imperial Valley of California and an the Yuma and Salt River Valleys of Arizona Stockmen have cd ed only in the last year or two that 1 temperatures were not too high in those sections for satisfactory liv live livestock livestock stock feeding Nothing means more towards the well being of the cattle rattle and sheep business than stabilized markets market and the stockman is seeing much im- im improvement improvement provement in stabilization through aiding Nature in providing feed and an u water and in his ab ability to market stock when read ready for market Year I around marketing means much to the th economic welfare of the stockman through providing a means of cash ash income all through the year and to t the meat trade be because ause of jin an an ample ampi supply of ot meat animals throughout II the year |