Eighty-eight New Mexico steers sold in…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

Eighty-eight New Mexico steers sold in Kansas City on Monday at $1.80 per hundred, and averaged 803 pounds. If any stock grower can figure out a profit in raising steers for such money he can make figures lie. Scrub stock will no longer pay, as feeders testfy by the prices they offer that they have not found them profitable, and the returns from scrubs shipped to the markets show that no one but the canners want them, and they are in position to make their prices, having no competition. Range men may argue that pure bred and high grade bulls will do no service on the range, and if it is a fact they might as well quit the business, as it is certain no money can be made raising scrubs.