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IGH Nees Cattle producers are now receiv more encourag rewards for their work than a any time since the financial de ression of 1921, according to John £. Pain , former president of the Améri can ford association and nationally known breeder, who lives near Roggen, Colo. Revived peewertty is only one of the factors = a to present bet~ r i ste is the location of the packers on public in the necessity of beef, differential between that 7 aood and that which “The best heras in the country must be culled,” said Mr. Painted. * they guarantee the future of pure blood.’ He stated that his firm, John E. Painter Son, has radically altered its system of cu and shipping in the last few years. annual program now calls for market, so that fairly heavy ship records do not make fancy beef, nor do for an earlier roundup of stock ready ments are made in June and July. The Painter firm sells many of its cat tle in states other than Colorado. One Texas breeder, who desired much later delivery, took no chances and selected forty animals. Mr. Painter cites an ex ample of the western breeder's difficul ties, when, three years ago, a southwest ern cattle baron paid for 250 young bulls with steers. There is little of the traditional “wild west” the method of beef breeding up on the Painter ranch, which is — on acres in extent, nn “We out stock everything,” says the head of the institution. Grains and other feeds are enchased and shipped into the ranch in vari ous parts of the country. The imported feed is added to the hay crop from 100 acres of alfalfa and uncounted acres of posse hay raised Sea ranches. ixteen men are employed harvesting the hay, which averages 2,500 tons a year. “Not to know Painter and his associ ates is not to know the western cattle business,” has been said frequently. The register at the Painter ranch contains the_~ 6 many distinguished per sons, a ternational prominence in the business of sup the world with its beef have been tors at the Roggen establishment, which is consid ered the nucleus of an immense breed ing industry of that section of Colorado.
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Hardin Tribune
Hardin, Montana, US
Fri, Oct 21, 1927
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