AMERICA'S BEEF SUPPLY,
QUITE INADEQUATE. Decreasing beef cattle supplies on tho farms east of tho Missouri Kiyer is a problem troubling Americans just at present. The nation has in recent years drawn too heavily upon tho source of fat beef output, without due regard to the future- of the supply. Time lias arrived when the "West, a few years back the brooding ground for the corn-belt feeders, is no longer able, to supply feeding cattle to the farmers of Missouri. lowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, except at almost fat steor prices. The situation is growing more acute each year, and withiai the past twelve, months the effect of decreasing homo production of beef steers' in the States of the middle- west lias teen a relatively shorter supply of beef than consumptive capacity required, and results have been higher average prices for fat steers thaw realised in thirty years past.— "Live Stock Journal."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 866, 12 July 1910, Page 8
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152AMERICA'S BEEF SUPPLY, Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 866, 12 July 1910, Page 8
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