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Show f f Livestoclc l.o.s Anele.s, Septeinher IS, HCl:! The cattle hit nat ion i ivin real cuu.se for concent these days. It ap-ars ap-ars that Cere is u hurdensotne nuinher of cattle tluit must find their way into meat channels t n tiiiK tho net few' inoiitlis. (iovernmetit reports re-ports indicate thai the cattle population popu-lation the country over lias been ciiinimr iciulnily iluiiiur tho j;nt few years until present iiopulntion is the greatest since any records have heen kept. This is in reference to total cattle population, both dairy and Intd' sUck. The final outlet for virtually all cattle is on the butcher's block. The greatest increases have been ill numbers num-bers of dairy cattle. Peef cattlemen are looking with no little concern on discussion amoii'r dairymen which will lead towards reduciiiK' imiilorn of milking cows. This cun mean nothing el-e than that more dairy cows would he turned into meat channels to compete with the strictly strict-ly beef tH cattle. Cattlemen are hrinirintr what pressure they can to prevent these dairy cattle from 'oing into direct romix-tition with tlieir In-ef, suggesting that more of the dairy stin-k. csH-eially the mo t common beef tyKs, go into tankage tank-age and products other than beef. It is also suggested that the fed-end fed-end administration might give greater great-er consideration to fuuincing miles of canned bi-f to Ku.-sia and the orient. It might 1h argued that this would ! far U-tter than to turn U-of into by-in-oilucts, as it should net higher returns, and at the .same jtin-.e, open up new channels through 1 which our surplus biff might be sold i in the future. ! It U doul.tful if feed condition I in the normal cattle feeding areas , are as bad as was indicated earlier in ti e year. Uite developments indicate indi-cate that there will be a much better ..rM.,-.Mt trf.Ssillle corn ciop vjuwi ,,rv...... ! thirty or sixty days ago. There is plenty of feed for cattle in the big feeding districts in Colorado and we-tern Nebraska. Itut the bi-trouble bi-trouble is that cattle feeding operation' opera-tion' (iuring the past three years have not been profitable and tho financing ..f cattle feeding is getting to be1 more and more difficult. California will require an immense; number of cattle, both breeding stock j and steers, should this state have anything like a favorable rainfall. Here again would come the difficulty in obtaining adequate financing. H seems certain that the heavy I supply of beef cattle to be marketed j from "ranges this fall will be force-1 'largely into beef channels. Much of i this beef will consist of cows and , medium ami common grades of steers. If financing can be arranged, it if ' certain that Salt P.iver valley in j Arizona and Imperial valley in Cali-: Cali-: "onvia will call for larger numbers of I cattle to be fattened than normallv. i The beef cattle interests have a seri-i seri-i ous job on thir hands and it is going ! to take a high degree of cooperation ; and probably some wise government help to market the cattle crop in any-I any-I thing like a satisfactory or profitable profit-able way. |