The Cattle Raising Business in America.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 202, 7 May 1887, Page 4

The Cattle Raising Business in America.

It i- not only in Xc w Ze-iland, remarks an exchange, that giazieis and livestock owners contin ie to be exeici-ed at the low prices and small piofits attached to the stock breeding bu-ine- 3 . American papers a»o full of the •subject. The Inu r-ll, public, of El Paso, l\\a-, takes thi-. view of the case and insi-ts on the need of careful peronal management "Absentee landlord ism," we are told, ' in many ca-es separated ftom the heids by half a continent and the Atlantic Ocean, will piove as futile in the cattle }>u,sii*e»s a 1 * >n nnv other busi ne.-s." The day of hapha/;ud fortunes in the cattle bu < -ine t-st -s has p.i-^ed, and ' the puicha^e of unlimited aci»'-s and the stock ing of them by uncounted herds, leit to the management of sonic dry goods clcik, or the youngei scion of oine wealth} family who mv-- he provided for, must no longer be expected to produce aujrht but its ljgi timate I'-o-ult- financial ruin." The Montana Lin Sfod Jonriia' take< a similar view of the case, declaring that the day of great hf;id= is nipidly diawin^ to a clos<\ but 'onsiders the settl d own.-i^h'p of smaller aieas, steady if mode) ate piofits, greater .safety fiom loss in hard winters, and the improvement of the bieed of oattle fully compensating advantages.