Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 30

L <a PAGE FOUR LIVESTOCK CATTLE RANGE lo FILLING UP University ’ Specialist Discusses Industry With Forecast BY D. J. ROBERTSON Livestock & Dairy Specialist University Extension Service wy t entered the new year with g there has been a slight change for the bet- men have a fee’ ter in this Breeders of purebred c reported an extr: and for range bulls s a splendid indica nterest is de- veloping had an excel lent fall with Uttle snow or cold weather previous to December 20th ‘This was a great saving on hay and feod as compared with year when In some sections feeding be-| gan on October 18th and continued | until May. A few moder win ters would do much to build up the morale and to create a more opti mistic feeling among our beef pro: lucers. It is estimated that about 210,000 beet cattle were marketed during the fall of the value of which was over $16,000,000. ‘This exceeds the 1923 sales better than $2,000,000 but as It includes all gases of cattle, it likely means tho forced liquid mn of a number of herd rather than an increased prc duction During the fall of 1923 a ship: ment of 700 head of feeder cattle where it was auc le to corn-belt was sent to tioned off at p feeders. Prices received from this experiment were in most cases very ¢atisfactory and a number of Albany Gounty producers planned on eimilar eflos during Octodér,and November of 1924, In all 16 car loads were shipped this year; the early sales being satisfactory. The latter wero not so good er, and from the dlasatisfaction expressed, 1t is hard ly likely that similar shipments will be attempted from this particular section in 1925 Interest in creasing in W. tinue as our corn acreage increases. Sugar beet ras: ers realize the need of more ferti Mazer if present sugar beet yields are to be increased or maintained. Cer tain sections of Wyoming are ad- mirably adapted to this phase of beef production as is evidenced by the following picture taken in Gosh en County in February of 1924, Sheep Prosperity has been smiling on this phase of animal husbandry. Lambs were contracted as high as 11 cents per pound, and late sales on wool reached 48c, A number of our present and former cattlemen have been watching every turn of the mutton and wool industry with a view of securing a start in sheep at their earliest opportunity. Tar. mers located on small irrigated tracts in certain sections have taken cattle feeding is in oming and will con and sugar beet up the “Few Sheep on Every Farm” {dea and many small flocks have Deen established. Park, Sheridan, Fremont and Platt counties ate lead: ers ih this respect. In many sec tions, this fall the demand for old ewes, good for another lamb or two. far exceed the supply. While the majority of our lambs are marketed direct from the range as Killers and fowders, still each year an increased number of local feeders are carrying on fattening operations. The U. B Department of Agriculture esti mutes that there were 20,000 more lambs on feed in Wyoming, Decem ber 1, 1924 than on the same date in 1923. This increase will con- tinue during the next few years, especially tn ou ar t raising Gistricts whe t and pulp art Tnterest tr n is not as keen are th fewer sows will be bred £ ago. Breeders of 1 1 hogs heve experier ulty in Aisporing of their surplus breeding stock at a figure that would juatity the extra care and expense neces anry in rais'ng above condition about principally by corn yields and dri crops due to an extr mer. Many I sections of the selves with a largo on hand with no f As a rogult: many 2014 and in some aiderable loss, Tt ts ward trend of prices or markets during the late fall duce a number of our hogmen to eontinue In the ent the top $2.60 to $3.00 corresponding ie not at a who have sold purebreds. has pen z raisers In four light hogs busir At pres: per time | | Glimpse o} of brood sows the past fall will be pay higher prices for them in the spring. During the early spring of 1924 the E: sion Service inaugur- 1 Wye # first State Ton lt: ter contest. The Idea was to de. termine whether or not 2,000 pounds of pork could be produced in Wyo- ming from one litter at 180 days of age. Nine feeders from two coun ties entered the contest. The first litter to finish and the winner to date !s John Clark of Platte county. The litter was sired by a purebred Duroc Jersey boar and out of a reg: istered Duroc « Twelve pigs were farrowed May 924, eleven of which, six gilts and 5 boars, were saved. They were weighed 5 times during the feeding perlod. ‘The weights were as follows, $1 days 870.0 Ibs. 92 days _ 1078.0 Ib 124 days 1694.6 Ibs. 154 days — 130.5 Ibs. 180 daysa@. 684.5 Ibs. The hogs were on % acré alfalfa pasture and were fed rye and wheat chop. New corn chop was fed as slop, Salt was before them at all Imes. Milk was fed only a small rt of the time. ‘The total cost of feeds including pasture and salt was $114.00. The cost per hundred Ibs, gain was $4.25. At $8.60 per ewt., which was the market price at the time, the litter if sold would have brought $228.18 making a profit, over and above feed cost of $114.18. At the close of the feeding period the six gilts averaged 245% Ibs, and tho five boars 242% lbs. The ayv- erage dally gain was 1.36 Ibs. Wyoming's Purebred Hog indus. try has been developed primarily through Boys’ and Girls’ Club work. During 1924 ten pig clubs were or- ganized, 74 members were enrolled with 219 animals involved. At the recent State Fair 186 purebred hogs Were on exhibition with. the follow- Ing breeds represented in numbers by the order given: Poland Chinas, Duroes, Chester Whites. Hampshires. A feature of the Hog Show at the State Fair was the first Duroc Jer. sey Futurity ever held in Wyoming. Duroc Breeders were very enthus: fastic over it and are demanding a similar classification for 1925. A Poland China Promotion Show which {s similar to the Dutoe Fu- Cattle Range Segre STE meson Che Casper Daily Cribune (Continued From Page One) mpany, with sufficient capital and with an efficient man- agement representing the various sectians of the state, made possible and practicable the relief of the livestock industry tn All portions of mens’ Loan « th state, through a single agency, and therefore the applications through banks have been compara- tively small in at Wyoming Loans Large, 4. More winter dairying. Albany, Hot Springs, Uinta and Lincoln counties have been active | during the year in the shipping In of dairy cattle. Other counties would have made importations had | it not been for bank fallures which interfered with the securing of cred It. Wyoming Dairymen should give more attention to proper feeding f thelr milk cows If the most prof- itable returns are to be obtained. More barley and roots should be raised in districts where corn can- not be depended upon. Conaider- able attentich 1s being given to the silo as a means of. storing green feeds for winter us The high cost of filling has been practically elim: Up to November 80, 1924, the War Finance corporation had loaned in Wyoming a total of $11,403,526.29, of which amount $9,146,921.80 had been repaid, leaving a balance out- standing of $2,256,604.99. Of these sums $11,155,258.60 was loaned through livestock loan corhpantes, mostly through the Wyoming Stock- mens’ Loan company. At the date referred to $9,052,080.87 had been , leaving outstanding $2,103, In t same period loans been made through banks unting to $248,267.69, of which | 394,840.43 had been repaid, leaving an outstanding balance of $163,427.2 No definite applications for loans in ald of agriculture were received from Wyoming through co-operative marketing associations. When the Wyoming Wool Co-operative Mar: keting association was organized in the spring of 1924, with a view of securing advances on wool, the Fed eral Intermediate Credit Bank of Omaha had been organized and ap- plication was made to that institu tion. When there seemed some question as to whether they would inated through the use of a new type known ag the Trench Stilo. Only one has been dug to date in Wyo ming but it 1s & dompléte Buccess. Canada, North Dakota and New Mexico have Been using them for yeard, The following {4 a list of advantages Trench ailos possess that makes them espec'ally attra tive under Wyoming conditions. 1, Low cost. 2. Unlimited capacity. 3, Basy to make. 4, Low machinery and labor coat 5. Will not blow down. 6. Whole corn fodder may be used. 7. LAlvestock may do the packing 8. Will not freeze. 9. Trench silos can be bullt in irrigated valleys whero the water “One-Ton Litter” of Pigs _ turity has been held at Douglas for the past three years. Dairying During 1924 Dairying In Wyoming has more than held its own, in spite of the fact that the price of butter has ranged from 7c to 10 ¢ per Ib. lower than tn 1923. This fact has discouraged a number of good dairymen but It has also taught that winter dairying {s both practical and necessary. The state's average es short ser Hig rly milk production per cow ts low. In 1919 the U. S. Census Bureau place it at 2 Ibs; our State Department of Agriculture W estimates it at 300 Ibs, or a sain of 640 Ibs. cow in six yeare. » Extens! Is attempting crease this production by urs ‘olowing methods, eeding up dairy stock thru of bulls from high producing Purchase of helfers or calves side states providing desir s* cannot be secured in feeding and housing methods, table Is so close to the surface that the pit ailo is not practical The Extension Service, Laramie. Wyoming, will be pleased to furnish complete information to all inter ested in constructing a silo of this or any other type. Figures on the total amount of Dairy Products produced within the state for the year 1924 are not avail able at this writing. Totals as sub- mitted by the State Dairy, Food and Of} commisstonr -for the year start ing October 1, 1923 and ending Sep- tember 1924 are given bélow: Creamery butter, Ibs —....-1 718 Dairy butter Ibs ‘ i Ice Cream, gals- ~++) 240,118 Cheese, Ibs. -..-. -1,894,468 Cream’ shipped out of state The ksieq snot -3,819,846 Sour cream (creamertes) Ibs 9,028, Sour cream (cream stations) THE stipes 2,632,115 The manufacture of dairy butter on our ranches Is gradually decreas ing. his shows that more farmers and ranchers are selling thelr cream to creameries, stations, etc., instead of making It into butter, h Grade Range Cattle Sheep on Feed in Wyoming - make the loans the officers of the Var Finance corporation assured he officers of the Wyoming Wool Jo-operative Market association that he War Finance corporation would nake the advances if the Intermoe- liate Credit bank did not do go. After some delay the matter was inally adjusted satisfactorily, and credit was .extended by the Inter- mediate Credit bank. Delayed Applications Honored. The period during which the Wa Finance corporation was atithorize to receive applications for loans ex pired on November 80, 1924. Befori the expiration of that applicatior County High School Built At Sundance By 0. D. TICKNOR. (Editor Sundance Times) In the northeast corner of old Wy- oming silts Sundance, capital e'ty of Crook county, basking at the south- ern edge of the Red Lodge range, with Sundance mountain right in front, a daily panorama of grandeur. If this were not enough, a short mo tor trip takes the Sundancer to Devil's Tower, king of worldly obel isks, a thousand feet of sheer rock Greatest of Sundance'’s achieve ments in 1924 w: fruition o hopes to erect a sultabte high Gehoo edifice. This was accomplished through co-operation of eight schéo districts, and the handsome build ing of native sardstone is a credit ble monument to the h’gh ideals o Mayor Edwin Rounds, who, ag presi dent of the Sundance board, with his associates, made the undertaking successful, Sun s the ance may well be capital of Crook, the “County without a debt,’ for Sundance, the city knows no debt, and has $18,000.00 loaned on s ige security, This peculiar sit uation might be attributed to the fact that Matthew C. Roberts, for merly-of E@nburgh, was mayor of the city for a long term of years, Live Stock on Increase . Assessor's figures for 1924 show that Crook county is the home of 50 per cent more cattle than in 1914, several thousand more sheep, in addition to a large | 4 In corn Acreage, ANd consequent added num- ber of hogs marketed. ‘There are three pigs here now to one {n 1914 Several cars of turkeys and othe: none were shipped 10 years ago Moorcroft has become cipal shipping point the for the county. 407 ca: 60 cars of hogs, 19 cars of wheat, try, While cattle shipments were a was an increase in cream and poultry. Aladdin shipped out 90 cars of hogs in 1924, Growing agriculturally, county 18 Hehin home assets, while bank clearings at Sundance show a notable Increase during the years” since 1920, hogs, poultry showed up last year, where prin. | J. M. Mead, B and M. agent, reports | of oattle, 82 cars of sheep, | cars of wool and 2 cars of live poul- | little low with former years, there | sheep, | nad | INTERESTS BREATHING OPTIMISM Federal Loans Smooth Way in Helping “Biggest Cheese” on Earth Stockmen to Better Times in Wyoming period additional applications were received from Wyoming by the War Finance corporation in the sum of $729,471. At the time of the writing of this article about half of these applications have been approved and the probability {a that the major portion of the applications will be in form for consideration and be approved before the expiration of the statutory period. There should therefore be added to the loans made in Wyoming up to November 30, 1924, above referred to, approx!- mately $700,000, making’a total of loans in the state of approximately $12,000,000. While the period in which the War Finance corporation was au thorized to, make new loans expired | with the year that has fist closed, the law provides that the corpor: tion may renew for &@ period ¢: tending to January 1, 1926, any loan metie on or before January 1, 1925, or renew any loan made after January 1, 1923, for a period not extending beyond three years from the date on which the loan was originally made. standing loans of the corporation nray therefore, if necessary, be carried by renewal until January 1, 1926, and the loans made since Jan- uary 1, 1928, may, if necessary, be carried by renewal for varying periods, depending upon the time when they were made, to as late a date in the case of the most recent loans as the latter part of the calendar year 1927. : Great Results Loom. While it ts expected that the gen- eral improvement in agricultural and financial conditions will result In continued liquidations and the gradual transfer of loans to other financing agencies, it seems quite probable that it will be necessary for the corporation to carry a por tion of ite loans for nearly if r- quite the full perfod authorized iy law. In the spring of 1928, by act ap proved March 4 of that year, the congress established the Intermedi- ate Credit Banks, under the man- agement of the Federal Farm Loan Board, with a view of providing per- manently agencies for credit in the fleld in which the War Finance cor. poration was operating as an emer- sency organization, The Interme- diate Cerdit Banks havo made excel- lent progress in the financing of co-operative marketing associations and have been helpful in other lines of agricultural credit, and there seems to be no reason why the regular financial institutions of the country and the#e new agencies cannot afford the oredit necessary for the suce ssful operation and ex- tension of the livestock industry. Some at least of the livestock loan been operat All of the ont-| SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1925 AGAIN successfully through the Finance corporation are now making preparations to secure fu- ture credit through the interme- diate Credit Banks, and It {s to be hoped that these banks will prove to bé entirely successful in furnish. ing promptly the funds' which the Hvestock industry must have. Corporation Still Active. While the active loaning of the W ance corpor at a close and the number of its agencies and “its personnel have been reduced the corporation “still has and will continue to have for a considerable length of time a vers active and important work to per- form in looking after and providing period on is to make this cheese. For the Best Lumber and 251 NORTH BFPCH Star Valley produced in one day the 90,000 pounds of milk mks ‘The valley lies in Uinta county in the extreme /iy southwest corner of the state and is noted for its dairy and cheese induy for, the loans still outstanding. try. While conditions have great} im- ict : 72 uh - nl esa loans and operations of the corpora-| through which the loans have deer and southwest, which 4 acute and| tion, and it fs the purpose of the| made, and particularly to the un trying and will require oareful| Corporation to afd those who are paeae assistance that has bee handling to protect the equities of| borrowers in working ot their | sive the Corporation by its volu owners and the interests of the gov-| Problems. \t committees of bankers an ernment. 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