Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings In the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many LocalitiesCATTLE PRICKS TO CONTINUE High for Seven More Years, Says Stock Yards Statistician. Chicago, Dec. 28. —A shortage of 1,000,000 cattle in the year just closing will cause high prices for beef and beef products for at least seven years more, it was declared by M. F. Horine, statistician for the Union stockyards. In his annual report. Mr. Horine said it will be impossible to make good the shortage of 1919 before 1927, and that the department of agriculture’s report concerning the number of cattle in the United States was too optimistic. An Increase of 377,000 animals of all kinds received at the Union stockyards for the year 1919 over 1918 was reported. Cattle receipts, however, decreased 290,000. Decreases in cattle slaughter were also reported by the markets in Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph, St. Louis and Sioux City.