CATTLE INDUSTRY OF KANSAS. 22 
CATTLE INDUSTRY OF KANSAS. 
In connection with the foregoing article, attention may be 
usefully directed to an interesting report by Mr. Vice-Consul 
Young on the cattle trade of Kansas. This industry cannot 
be treated as totally distinct from that of the surrounding 
country, inasmuch as the industry in Kansas is essentially 
bound up with that of Oklahoma, Texas, and other parts; 
ifewesdine Cate at one time running; upon the open 
range in New Mexico, and at another time feeding in 
the maize-fields of Eastern Kansas. From a cattleman’s 
point of view the western country may be divided into 
three sections: the first, of which Eastern Kansas is 
typical, is a rich, well-watered country, producing abund- 
ant crops, of which maize is the chief, and containing 
admirable pastures of blue grass. In the second district, of 
which Central Kansas is a type, the rainfall is somewhat 
uncertain, but maize and other feeding crops are grown 
along the watercourses, while the uplands produce a “ blue 
stem grass,” which furnishes excellent grazing. The third 
district resembies Western Kansas, and embraces land of 
little value except for grazing, the rainfall is very irregular, 
and the herbage consists for tie most part of what is known 
as “buffalo grass,’ which grows throughout the west and 
down into Texas. 
According to Mr. Young’s report, there has been a ten- 
dency in the Western States to improve the herds by the 
introduction of high-class pedigree bulls, as it: has been 
found that the cost of this system is more than met by the 
increased yield of beef thereby obtained for the same 
expenditure on grass and feed. The most popular grade of 
cattle at the present time is the Hereford, but there is, it 
seems, also a demand for Polled Angus, and Shorthorns 
find favour with many breeders. It is now usual for cattle- 
raisers to run the stock animals in pastures separate from 
the steers, and the two grades are differently handled. Stock 
cattle are no longer permitted to run on the open range in 
the more settled districts of Texas, but they are kept almost 
entirely to fenced pastures. From such animals an average 
Or? 
