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Show Why Poor Cattle. Are Marketed. ' From Farmers' Review: In reply to your inquiry: Why are there e& many immature, half-fat cattle being sent to market? I would say: In the. first place-a good number of these cat-tla cat-tla .were bouglit "last fall on 90, day paper. " That , paper has matured. Those holding that paper ask payment or renewal at highen rates. Many of these feeders have, not confidence in the markets justifying them in holding hold-ing and feeding to ripeness, so they send thgrn in. Others who have been feeding soft, chaffy corn have not had the gain they looked fori Their corn has not held out as they expected. They do not feel safe in buying and feeding on the present prospects.. So they send the cattle in. Still there are others who would like to continue to feed but they see the efforts put forth against the meat combine, the object of which is to lower the price of meat to the consumer. They see nothing from this but the lowering of j the market to the producer. They j know that to sell now will incu ' a j loss, but they feel satisfied that to continue to feed with a lowering mar-1 ket would be to face a greater loss still, so they, , too, send their stuff to market in the shape it may now be in. So we have increased demand for money, higher rates of Interest, disappointment dis-appointment in the feeding value of soft, chaffy corn and lack of confidence confi-dence in the markets for a few months hence. But there is another class of feeders who reason differently. They see, or think they see', fewer cattle on feed than usual, and these being rapidly becoming fewer. The whole continent of Australia, which has in the past furnished a large supply at meat to the European market, is now short, on home supply, leaving the market they formerly filled to be supplied sup-plied from somewhere else. Never in the history of this country has the working class been so generally employed em-ployed and at so good wages. The 'ability of the laboring class to live well was never greater. This should i make an increased: consumption of meats as well as ,the other foodstuffs and also a demand for clothing. The home demand that should have the most effect on our markets should be the very best. And those of us who hold" these opinions are satisfied to hold our cattle and feed to a- finish, and all we ask for is that we get a fair deal, an honest market under the conditions con-ditions as they exist, and feel satisfied we will not then have, labored for nothing. David Brown, Dodge County, Coun-ty, Nebraska. - |