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Show iLivestpck: SituationJ price level continues until the heavy run of grassers. The same proposition applies to weaner calves which could be finished as baby beef with a splendid chance of profit. What we need is to get closer together on these matters so that we may avail ourselves of the opportunity to help each other. We also want to keep, in mind that we are coming pretty fast to the j point where aged steers can't be had, I for the simple reason it doesn't pay to carry them, as against -the well-bred well-bred calves that can be finished as baby beef within a period not to exceed ex-ceed 18 months from the time the calf is dropped, and commanding the highest market price. I have always felt that there was a lot in common between our northern north-ern neighbors who live so high up in the cold and snow, and I would like to pass the message to them that Los Angeles is a real market and a natural natur-al market for western Montana, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, southwestern Colorado, the entire en-tire states of Idaho arid Utah and eastern Oregon and Nevada. It is a whole lot more comfortable trip to Los Angeles during the winter than to the middle west and just as much money in sight. I am satisfied the railroads may be relied upon to put in feeding and transit rates and to do everything that railroads ought to do to encourage encour-age the working out of some definite plan. This is the time of the year when the cowmen of Montana, Wyoming, lcaho and Northern Utah are struggling strug-gling with snows and cold weather and where the cutback or holdover Wlock is doing the best he can to keop body and soul together until green grass comes again. The rancher is wondering as usual, what the death loss will be and how much money he will have to spend for cake and hay to carry the cattle through the winter. The winter shrink on these holdovers varies anywhere any-where from 200 to 300 lbs. per head, which, at the present prices, represents repre-sents $20.00 to $30.00, to say nothing of the cost of the necessary cake and hay. I have often wondered why these people didn't take advantage of the milder weather and reasonably cheap feed conditions of Southern Utah, Nevada, and in California. There are sections where alfalfa is grown in abundance and the growers would be tickled to death to enter into a contract con-tract to produce hay at a price that would make everybody some money. The truth is that it is no longer profitable pro-fitable to winter these cutbacks or holdovers in any section of the country. coun-try. These same cattle can be put into feedlots and fattened and marketed mar-keted before the next grass crop at not much greater expense than the winter carrying cost, and there are thousands of Northern cattle now contentedly chewing their cud in the green pastures of the Imperial Valley. Val-ley. Anywhere from December to the first of May the price levels are highest high-est because all of the cattle coming to market are from the feedlot. This |