THE BEEF SUPPLY 



These we found to be better breeds, im- 

 proved breeding, advance in veterinary 

 science, and superior feeding methods. 



Let us now compare as well as we may 

 this set of "pros" and this set of "cons" the 

 things making for the increase of beef and 

 the things which check the raising of beef. 

 After sxich a comparison we cannot, I think, 

 help concluding that, so long as we suppose 

 the beef demand to remain about the same 

 as now, the forces repressing beef produc- 

 tion greatly outweigh those promoting this. 

 The tendency of the beef supply must be, 

 on this supposition, to diminish, and that of 

 prices to increase. Such is the lesson taught 

 by the prospective beef supply considered in 

 itself. 



In thus endeavoring to get at the net 

 tendency of the beef supply, we have, to 

 conserve clearness, assumed the demand for 

 beef to be constant or nearly so. We must 

 now examine this assumption; that is, we 

 must consider the causes likely to affect the 

 demand for beef. We shall here, as in the 

 other instance, isolate the problem, trying to 



