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Show stabilize. Our whole business stiy hire is based upon the law of aveiy so that the 'in and outer' and the f( low who seeks the higher prevails price on a specialized commodity j in most cases, courting disaster well as disturbing our whole schet of production and distribution. it is generally understood that catt hogs and sheep offer a practlc. means of soil fertility and farm ( versification, then agriculture as whole may become enore profitab! Farm relief would seem to lie in pt ducing stable crops and in prodt ing quality products. Poor qualf foods, whether we refer to meat, ft: or what not are always the harde to sell. Live stock on the small farms will provide the fertilizati which will do much towards prodr ing such quality products. j Then, too, a section which is j; porting large amounts of a sta; commodity which can just as well ;! grown at home is creating a grt-economic grt-economic waste. For instance, the it' portation of millions of dollars wor. of, hogs and pork products from t Middle West is economically unsour when there is plenty of feed and pie;' ty of room for the growing and fet! ing of hogs on the Pacific Coast X: the most favorable climatic coir, tions. ; Farm relief undoubtedly will cot' only when agriculture takes stoci itself. The government can ht through the dissemination of reliat crop and market information a; through valuable aid In teaching -j to grow better products. Live etc. production and feeding is import: to the average agriculturist becat it is a means of cash income the jt around, instead of cashing in or once a year, as in the case with n: farm crops. j business was profitable, aim m.c,C"t tendency towards agricultu-,l agricultu-,l r;c0very was not noticeable until values of live stock had reached ; i ---vpr levels. "ls a mailer of fact, Western agri-! agri-! ,uVvvo and Western business depend i "to a -ve-.t extent on the prosperity of live stock business. Live stock has ,lwnvs been and probably always will be the best means of marketing our ,,.,;n and forage crops and without tfat means of transportation and marketing, the farmer must resort to artificial methods of disposition of his crops, resulting, in the end, in a substantial sub-stantial decrease in his income; hence, in his purchasing power. An important feature in this connection lies in the fact that off-grade hay and grain may be utilized to the best advantage ad-vantage when fed to live stock whereas where-as if sold on the market, a material reduction would be made in the price. Even the cotton farmer depends, to a great extent, upon the stockman, because be-cause cottonseed cake and meal constitute con-stitute important live stock feeds and these by-products have much to do with making cotton production profitable. profit-able. We can go on almost without end, pointing out the connection between be-tween live stock and profitable crop production either as the most available avail-able means of maintaining soil fertility fer-tility or the best way to market our crops. Then, too, a scarcity of live stock is likely to encourage the use of land for agricultural crops coming in direct di-rect competition with land already devoted de-voted to that purpose, and producing enough to meet all practical needs. In many cases, the land is not suited to anything but pasture with the, result re-sult that it produces a low grade product pro-duct sold, however, in competition with the better quality, and reducing the price levels all along the line When it is generally realized that live stock production occupies an important import-ant place in the agricultural setup, there is little doubt that conditions may become more stabilized. There is too much of a disposition in the Western areas to specialize in certain crops. Too many land owners own-ers hope to make a 'killing' by planting plant-ing a specialty crop, which has a limited market, resulting in over-production and the inevitable price slump. When we begin to recognize that agriculture is a business, selecting select-ing and continuing to produce on certains lands adapted to such use, a commodity for which there is a con- ' so simple thait it would have come long ago if we had not lost ourselves in the woods trying to find a tree'. He then goes on to point out that agriculture agri-culture as a whole has never been satisfactory unless the live stock The best minds of agriculture have for many years been attempting to solve (the troubles that seem to beset those engaged in agriculture. There has been more or less idle talk yet the fact that agriculture is in need of relief is a matter beyond question. The editor of a western newspaper comes forth with the thought that the key to the puzzle is likely to be found |