Show 11 O OO TON OF f HAY Ai LEFT TO L I I Refusal to Accept 1750 a aTon 9 Ton Causes Loss as Price Slumps I More i than an a million tons ton's tons of hay remain remain re remain re- re main unsold in the Snake ri riVer er valley in In Idaho because the farmers refused to accept 1750 a ton from the stock- stock growers of the intermountain region for their product Stock has been shipped on a greater scale this year in Wyoming than ever before and cattle In m many ny other sections is being shipped d out for the winter feeding partly on account of this refusal of the farm farmers farmere ere to accept the figure offered for the hay This situation was said to exist by T. T E. E Wood president of the Western Livest Livestock cl Loan association association association tion who returned to Salt Lake today after atter spending a month in Idaho and Wyoming The same hay that farmers refused i to sell a f few w we weeks weeks ks ago when the stockmen met and discussed means of feeding during th the coming season can now now be bought for 14 a ton according to Mr Wood Stories of routh being wholly re responsible responsible responsible re- re for the shortage of stock food are not altogether true Mr Wood said We think it is a title of ot themore themore the themore more gain bug DUg which has got into the veins of oC the producer Practically every stockman in Idaho Idaho Idaho Ida Ida- ho has made arrangements for feeding the coming months and conditions can b be said as being good there Had the farmers sold their hay when the offer was made it Is probable proba proba- ble cattle would not have be been n shipped to Wyoming this year Conditions Inthis in inthis inthis this state are different from other oiher Western Vestern states because c the rangelands range lands so far exceed the irrigated lands thereby Increasing the seriousness of ot the situation when a drouth does come Sixty per cent of the cattle being held In Wyoming this winter for beef purposes will be fed at Big Dig Hole In Beaverhead county |