Show the livestock situation by J ji A mcnaughton arrivals of af more moie grass afaf fat cattle at the los log angeles angelea union stock yards twive leive be been wil by 6 a lower mail let on eow cawi i and teen it re vently an and d some bume classed chinsw are aie cull con blac red to ax per civit lower chait around the ito first of the mOut ll liew few load lulu iola of grass cows cowa aire C selling above SOO per cwt cat while it n few cows coa that have haie been fed in try tiry fo lit aro bringing oa as much as per cwt cat colue of the cowa eliat have been ar nt at the stock yards afrula native grass pastures pas tuie have been belling higher than theau groin the aih linperi Impe ilal al euid and other wor irrigated valima leyy hns has been the cause of quite a lot vs of and some cattlemen me are of the opinion ithac dhe che reason tle the cattle from irrigated valleys tire ahei not doing dohig better lies in the way they are handled they believe that lii in many cases the fields are pastured bonu too closely before the ithe cattle ire are moved to low feed and that uie the fields are aio so BO small in red rei lattan atlon to the number of cattle thiet lit it is necessary to moe them evvy week or ten da days Ys no sooner do the cattle start to doing well ft ell wan than the best of the feed Is token taken and the luie carmet owning the feed usually wants the cattle to stay until anul each field Is eaten well down then thea also ithe constant coni moving of the ahe cattle keeps choul from doing their best alioth another er fact brought out Is ia the ae high nutritive values of OUT native plants such as bur clover and fil arla reed feed analysis an alysia that eliat bur bui clover has hag a value gulite similar to nl fil falfa it is ia a tact fact that native grass Is the hie cheapest and aad best beat feed there ever has haa been for ca capitle title af ter ler cattle have hae beer been on clover and aila during the growing season mid nd allowed to and harden up after the feed has dried it is difficult to improve on them some of the most important work going ou on in the west at al the present time Is ithe experimentation with new plants plair ts for our ranges langes while this work blas not been going on long enough for agronomists to make positive statements regarding new liew species several planets have up well in tests testa and it appears likel likely thit that improvement can be la in ein ranged through the introduction of new species thu work 1 Is tt bf extreme significance since there are few crops that compare in ln value bilue with that of 1101 tiTe grass grasa harvested nud and marketed through ItT livestock estock the improvement of our ranges is as important as aa ithe improvement pro of our various breeds of livestock |