Show BEEF CATTLE SITUATION IS HOPEFUL tho the present market situation for beet beef cattle is generally regarded as hopeful the production 0 of pork Is likely to be heavily curtailed in the immediate future fluture and since corp when cheap as it has been recently considerably reduces the demand for beet beef it would appear that the increasing scarify of the former product will likely have a favorable effect on the market demand tor or the latter since 1920 the production of beef cattle has been greatly diminished and this tact fact also should have a favorable reaction on the price the market for mutton and wool still continues high and Is likely to do so for a long time under the present tariff regulations here in it the range states of the west a considerable element of uncertainty in regard to both sheep and beet cattle la Is introduced by the tha tact fact that the range seems at present in rather a precarious condition unless there is a great deal of rain in the near future it i Is s certain that the good grazing will all be pretty well used up before the summer Is more than halt half gone in that event experts at the utah agricultural college anticipate a record run of deed ers era both laabs and veal to the market in july and august the effects of this situation will be of course to diminish the size of the herds hera for some years to come la in connection with the raising of sheep and beet beef cattle a very significant warning was given recently by dr W E carroll of the agricultural college it Is hard to play the other fellows game successfully in the production of livestock said professor carroll very rarely does an experienced cattleman make a success in the sheep business just now when the profits of tho the sheep busi pesa seem high by comparison with thos 3 to be obtained from cattle there la Is n i strong temptation to switch from cattle to sheep only in very rare cases does such a change result favorably in general it would pay the cattleman attl emall better to go out of the business entirely and sell atut his range privileges to an experienced sheep man the two lines of production differ and the man who can succeed equally well in elther either it 13 rare the market prospects tor for beet beef ca cattle t are perhaps best summarized by a recent government bulletin which cays although the cattle industry r inears to have turned the corner there is little apparent in the present s to encourage material immediate expansion |