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Show Mwestock: United States Department of Agriculture Agri-culture Farmers' Bulletin No. 1305, recently received, was prepared by the Bureau of Animal Industry and the Animal Husbandry Division and is a Fple.ndid contribution to the live stock interests, particularly to the great range country question so graphically outlined in the Bulletin. Few of us appreciate that 45 per cent of our total land area is embraced within the so-called great ' range country. In this bulletin attention is called to the intimate relationship between the Corn Belt and the range. This we all recognize; as a matter of fact, it is a potent factor in the cow situation situa-tion today because the Corn Belt farmer has pretty much withdrawn his purchasing power of Southwestern Southwest-ern stockers and feeders with the result re-sult that a large number of feeders have been, thrown into beef channels with quite a shock to not only the price of feeders but to the beef animals, ani-mals, generally, as a result of too many at one time. However, in view of the extensive shortage in our national beef supply, this must be regarded as a passing event and something t hat will not prove a permanent hurt to the industry indus-try as a whole. Everybody interested in live stock should read this bulletin because it contains a let of good information in-formation and advice which should be helpful to the ranchers. It is a noticeable fact that while California occupies second place in range production, it is in the ninth place among the pure bred herds of the several States. It is well to remember, re-member, however, that these figures are nearly ten years old being based ' upon the census of 1920, but anyhow, any-how, California has never been regarded re-garded as a great breeding state most of the cattle coming in from the big range country of the West and Southwest. Based upon climate, availability of feed and production costs, California occupies a most favorable position and will eventually be a great breeding state. Substantial growth in this line will undoubtedly be proven when we bring our figures up to date. |