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Show there is little apparent in the present situation to encourage material immediate im-mediate expansion." orably. In general it would pay the cattleman better to go out of the business entirely and sell out his range privileges to an experienced sheep man. The two lines of production pro-duction differ widely, and the man who can succeed equally well in either eith-er is an exception." The market prospects for beef cattle cat-tle are perhaps best summarized by a recent government bulletin which says: Altnough the cattle industry appears to have turned the corner, BEEF CATTLE SITUATION SHOWS UPWARD TREND The present situation for beef cattle cat-tle is generally regarded as hopeful. The production of pork is likely to be heavily curtailed in the immediate imme-diate future and since pork, when cheap as it has been recently, considerably con-siderably reduces the demand for beef it would appear that the increasing increas-ing scarcity of the former product will likely have a favorable effect on the market" demand for the latter. Since 1920 the production of beef cattle has been greatly diminshed, and this fact also should have a favorable fav-orable reaction on the price. The market for mutton and wool still continues high and is likely to do so for a long time under the present pres-ent tariff regulations. Here in the range states of the West a considerable element of uncertainty un-certainty in regard to both shc-i-p and beef cattle is introduced by the fact that the range seems at present in rather a piecarious condition. Unless Un-less there is a great deal of rain in the near future it is certain that the good grazing will all be pretty well used up before the summer is more j than half gone. In that event, experts ex-perts at the Utah Agricultural College Col-lege anticipate a record run of feeders, feed-ers, both lambs and veal, to the market mar-ket in July and August. The effects of this situation will be of course to diminsh the size of the herds for some years to come. In connection with the raising of sheep and beef cattle a very significant signifi-cant warning was given recently by ; Dr. W. E. Carroll of the Agricultural ! College. "It is hard to play the o'.her fcl-I fcl-I low's game successfully in the production pro-duction of livestock" said Prof; ..' i Carroll; "Very rarely do-js an" .ri-j .ri-j endced cattleman make a succj-s iv: the sheep business. Just now,' when the profits of the sheep W'hv.-.-i.-seem high by compari.-on wk;i those to be obtained from euuic , thei e is a strong temptation to switch fiom ! cattle to sheep. Only in verv rare i cases does such a change nsuit fuv- |