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Show Situation.) Several years of drouth and resultant result-ant scarcity of range feed have encouraged en-couraged the establishment of many feedlots during the past season. Those located in the country near a source of economical feed supply and those in the city which permit the feeding of live stock on by-products of various vari-ous industrial plants no doubt are founded on sound economic principles. princi-ples. But the feed lots located in or near populous sections which must de-jj.ud de-jj.ud uuou both feed and cattle being shipped in from points do not appear to be sound from an economic stand-ponit. stand-ponit. It would be far cheaper and better to fatten livestock at the ranch where feed is available and where the critter has natural surroundings, than in the city where things are new and disturbing and where feed is neces3arrily high-priced. Wlien we consider that a bovine animal practically eats its own weight every thirty days, it may well be understood under-stood that it would be cheaper to take the animal to the feed, rather j than to haul feed to the animal. ! Feed lot fattening as a means of J extending the marketing period and j getting the bullock in better flesh is good business but it should be done i under the most favorable conditions as to costs and surrounding. Arizona and New Mexico, Utah, Idaho and Nevada have had excellent rains this summer, resulting in splendid splen-did range feed conditions. Due to the extremely cold winter and a late spring, feed conditions in Inter-Mountain country were poor at the outset of the summer pasturing pastur-ing season. The result is that most ' of the Inter-Mountain cattle failed ; to fatten as early as normally and ' advices from that section indicate j that beef cattle will be later than j usual in going to market. However, ' feed conditions are very favorable at i this time and cattle out of that sec-I sec-I tion should be of good quality this i season. Rains came too late to as-' as-' sure a crop of choice fat lambs, how-' how-' ever. I |