92 Western Live-stock Alanagement 
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. 
