arid the most careful agriculture. The future of cattle-feeding may^ be considered
as part of the question of the culture of the sugar beet, as the feeding of cattle on
pulp, by effecting an economy in the production of beef, -will naturally accompany
the establishment of factories. It has been discovered in France and Germany, that
the number of food animals has enormously increased with the growth of the sugar
beet, and doubtless this country, although kt present a great point of supply for
beef animals, will increase its production of beef by the use of pulp. In my own
experience this year the planting of sugar beets has led to the plainting of forage
beets, in the use of which, for the production of beef, there is an vinlimited field.
It is, then, in the use of these foods that I expect to see the production of beef
develop in the future.
"The past season has been the most profitable season for the cattle-feeders of the
corn States, taken as a whole, for the last seven years. In the spring of 1891 prices
were slightly higher, but in that season the cost of food west of the Missouri was so
great that feeders in this section did not make very much money. There was also
a short period of good prices in June and July, 1888. Speaking generally, how-
ever, since the summer of 1886, the market for corn-fed beef has been greatly
depressed by excessive supplies, and to an extent that has discouraged cattle-
feeders. The prospect for the future is that the price for fat-beef animals will be
higher for a number of years than the average for the last eight years.
