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Show SELLING ON THE HOOF RESULTS IN QUITE LESS MONEY. Production of meat in this country is below what it was ton years ago, compared with population, popu-lation, according to the report of Secretary of Agriculture Houston. Thnt means that the raising rais-ing of beef cattle for market is at a lower estate throughout the country, including Carbon county coun-ty or the vicinity of Price nnd thfs section of Eastern Utah. The small farmer especially, who could with profit raise from two to twenty head a year, has no incentive to do so because of the inndeqtinte and unsatisfactory means of sale. The Btory is told of a farmer near Washington, D. C, who had two cows ho wished to sell as beef. He shipped the better of the two cows to Washington Wash-ington nnd received twenty-eight dollnrs for it live weight. He decided to butcher the second OH his farm. It weighed seven hundred nnd twenty poundB, nnd at the rate he received in Washington he would have received $28.80 had he taken it there on the hoof. Had the cow been sold to the local buyer, who scoured the country thereabouts for Washington nnd Baltimore markets, mar-kets, he would not have received more than $22.50. But, as Indicntcd, he slaughtered this second cow himself and received $18.11) net for the meat. This is an actual occurrence vouched for by the department of agriculture. The same rule probably holds good in Carbon county. There is no doubt at all about it that the selling of cattle on the hoof to buyers for packers or shipping the animals direct results in less money than if the slaughtering were done on the farm. But then comes the answer thnt those who raise cattle as a business enn't turn their plnces into slaughtering houses, nnd that the labor entailed in slaughtering nnimnls is worth something, not to mention the time consumed. That is true, but what percentage of the farmers farm-ers of this nation raise cattle for anything less than u sideline? And this being the case, a little sideline home slnughlcring will bring in more money. |