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Live Stock Notes 
The Outlook for Cattle and Hogs 
What is the outlook for the cattle mar¬ 
ket. especially steers, for Spring? Have 
the Western farmers kept steers to fatten 
as usual? What causes butcher cattle to 
be so low in price at present time? These 
are things that are of interest to many 
farmers, and I thought that you could 
answer these question better than any 
one else. K. F. H. 
Womelsdorf, Pa. 
Ordinarily I do not think that I am 
pessimistic about matters, but right at 
present I am. It would take entirely too 
long a letter to explain just what I think 
about the present situation, as applied to 
our farm products. I think that when 
“Simon says thumbs up, it is thumbs up. 
and when Simon says thumbs down, it is 
thumbs down.” I think that the law of 
supply and demand is not on the statute 
books at all any longer. In fact, no.city 
man who understands the situation claims 
that it is. A few days ago I talked with 
Mr. V. H. Davis, head of our State Bu¬ 
reau of Markets, and he made the follow¬ 
ing remark, “One day not long ago the 
woman wanted a little bacon. I went to 
the grocery store and bought a pound, 
paying 60c. The same week our tenant 
on the farm sent me check for some hogs 
which he had sold. The hogs brought 
12%c. Also in the same week I went to 
the army store and bought some bacon at 
20c. I have been trying ever since to 
correlate these three prices, but I cannot 
do so.” 
A few days ago my Columbus daily 
paper announced that prices of all meats 
had gone up between 5c and 10c per 
pound, and gave as an excuse that there 
was a scarcity in the West and cattle 
were not coming in freely. The top 
prices, if I remember right/were around 
55c to 60c per pound. Almost the same 
day I received a letter from a Western 
rancher who stated that owing to the se¬ 
verity of the Winter they had been com¬ 
pelled to cash in almost all of their cat¬ 
tle. These two statements do not dove¬ 
tail. 
The great statisticians show business, 
as a whole, in probably the most pros¬ 
perous condition ever known. Commodi¬ 
ties, as a whole, are at the very peak, 
but regardless of the fact that consumers 
are paying 60c a pound for bacon, the 
farmer in this section can get only 13c to 
14c for live hogs. The reason for this is 
simply that the packers absolutely control 
the markets and pay us what they choose, 
while the retailers are greedy enough so 
that; they demand. I would judge, about 
200 per cent profit on much of this meat, 
and at least 100 per cent on all of it. The 
result is that they are able to pay their 
labor any price that is asked, and it is 
not the slightest wonder that the young 
people move to the city. So far, I can see 
only one thing that is likely to correct 
this situation, and that is. for the farmers 
to take things more into their own hands; 
to continue the present wave of organiza¬ 
tion ; to make real business units out of 
each local association, and to sell their 
own produce for more than they are now 
doing it. I mean to carry the selling clear 
through to the consumer instead of allow¬ 
ing it to pass through three or four hands 
before reaching him. As to the number 
of cattle on feed, etc., I think there is not 
so large a difference between this year 
and other years, but, frankly, I do hot 
think it makes any difference whether 
there is a scarcity or not. The powers 
that are over us have determined that we 
should not make any money, and they are 
in strong enough position so that they ab¬ 
solutely control the situation. 
Ohio. CHAS. B. WING. 
Apple Pomace for Cows 
One of our readers in Hunterdon 
County, N. J., wrote recently saying that 
his local cheese factory had refused to 
accept his milk where the cow's had been 
fed on apple pomace. The excuse made 
by the factory people was that the board 
of health had prohibited the use of this 
food on the theory that it' not only in¬ 
jures the milk of the cows, but the cows 
themelves. We know of many dairymen 
who feed large quantities of apple pomace 
to their cattle, and with great results, 
and it seems curious that) such an excuse 
should be made. We wrote to the pres¬ 
ident of the State Board of Health at 
Trenton about this, and he says that no 
action whatever has been taken by the 
Department of Health in regard to pom¬ 
ace as a cattle food. There must be 
some mix-up somewhere over this. It 
might be possible that a very sour or de¬ 
cayed lot of the pomace would prove in¬ 
jurious, and possibly some one who saw 
such a pile of pomace decided that all of 
it must be inferior. This, however, is 
not so because many tons of it are fed 
every year by people who live near the 
cider mills. When in fair condition the 
pomace has about SO per cent, of the 
value of good com silage, and can be fed 
in just about the same way as silage is 
usually handled. Some dry hay or fod¬ 
der should be fed along with it. some 
food like bran or cottonseed meal will 
go well as a grain addition. There is no 
use in a board of health trying to shut 
out this useful feed. As time goes on 
more and more of it will be saved and 
fed. 
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