Show BEEF JEEP PRICES HIGHER AFTER I 8 g YEARS OP OI After eight years of or almost con continuous contin contin- tin adversity the business of or growing growing grow grow- ing lug lan l'an range e cattle rattle for beef the west's oldest agricultural enterprise is asserting assorting as- as sorting its right to a share ef or the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's pro prosperity rho The high prices which beef beer producers have been beon re receiving re- re during the present seas seas- season n and are aro ro likely to continue to receive for at lt least two years may not be particularly pleasing to the consumer er cr wh vho wh-a has lIas been accustomed to low Jow prices for eight years hut but the tho cattleman cattleman cattleman cattle cattle- man feels that eight years yeaTs of oC continued con con- tinned depression is enough h. h The extent exten of the recovery of or the range cattle Is pictured In analyStS analyses ses St'S fi prepared b by agricultural statisticians statis statis- but the best Indicator is the fact that the western press has he been ll plentifully sprinkled l tho last tilt severn several months with reports of or record prices s for shipments of bee beef In discussing the pre present elt situation in the tHo beef beer industry arid and tho the immediate 1 imme- diate outlook the Oregon Agricultural tural college said the situation for forthe forthe I Ithe the cattleman is the most favorable for 60 50 years yea rue Tho college cites cHes that I prices received by the producer of bee bed arc are now at the highest level Jevel since 1919 while the thc cost of thi things npR bou bought ht by cattlemen is lower than thanin in 1919 The Tle situation Is Th expected to C cor for the next year o 0 longer lor fr r o-r cites th tJi conc college c the supply of or beef decreased horn from OJ Gl in 1926 9 6 to 58 8 pounds in 1927 and is expected to amount to only I 63 8 t or 54 o pounds ifor for 1928 fh ThIs gradual decline in the available beef supply explains why WRY th the price t to the producer ha Ins na increased per 11 cent between August 1526 and 2nd rd August 1928 1929 for fOT choice choco steers per percent percent cent for medium steers and 36 percent percent per percent cent on the average for all beet J- J cat cat- tIe tle Whale prices o-f o c cattle tattIe on foot have cJ Increased to so appreciably the I Isune sune survey also notes otes that prices to the I consumer have not cot maintained the thes s same me rate at of M in increase e Price increases l' l lo I o the tito the r have ha been only I I about halt half the rate o. o o-f o Increase se for tor live lI cattle A carload of or steers rB from Idaho this r. r tall fall JI brought at the Og Ogden Union stock yards the price of or 1325 and established a flew ew high mark for tor lm range e cattle on the Ogden market j t. t Ah ut the same camri time a shipment of ot j steers was marketed in I j i Montana for 16 a head one of ot the j i i best beet Prices for beef beer cattle ever resorted re- re I sorted in In- Inthe the west at any time A A i of baby from flOm Idaho Bounty avel averaged ag tl per pel h head acI i Other reports from Nevada Utah Te Texas as and Montana indicate the there there- re- re faking of or the cattle producers ov over vOr r li cle n newfound new d prosperity The majority of western stat states t are are to l be he c surprised when they tabulate tabulate tabulate tab tab- the the tiie returns Cr from m different branches of livestock k this year rear to lo find that the range cow has returned is lS sa a a worthy companion 0 of the range we e 0 as a profitable producer The cattIe cattle cat cat- cat cat- tIe tle industry is the he last of the major divisions of or agriculture to r register a ack from Crom the sc following the world war The recovery reco of or I sheep railing came first and and- with re remarkable re- re reI I suddenness Durin During the tIle elIt ht ears years of adversity th the l r of cattlemen n gradually rad declined Many were Mere forced out cut of business bythe by 11 bythe th the depression but the majority ob obtained tamed what funds tho they could fr from their cattle holdings and hot bought lit sheep heep Co Considerable of the or-the tho sheep ex expansion ex- ex k- k r in the west last w st st. during the pi fight ht years rears particularly in Colorado Wyoming Nevada Nevada- and Idaho has I boon been at the expense expense I of or beef cattle attIe numbers 1 uS 11 |