92 Western Live-stock Management 



they think. It seems that one year with another there 

 are rather too many cattle being fattened on alfalfa with 

 the result that on one hand the price of feeder cattle is 

 being forced above a normal level and on the other too 

 many cattle are put on the western markets in March 

 and April with a consequent lowering of the price. Some- 

 what fewer cattle on feed throughout the West would 

 doubtless adjust matters so that all could make a fair 

 profit. 



