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Show (MIV KAUoiimgfct ( Los Anc.vlos, OctoU-r i, WWW - Ilor )iiics made u hom'ataoitil ihIviukV duriiiir the .past week, carrying: pi iccii woll above th" fivt. cent nuirk on Missouri river market for the first time in Several weeks. Prices at Ciiicao ul this wrtinr are well above a year iiuo for the fii'st time tins season. 'This f ives leal encouraj.;e-moiit encouraj.;e-moiit to the 1kil.; producer and to a"riculturo generally because it is generally recoirnii'd that, the hoy. nuirket is the real barometer of agriculture. agri-culture. The Ae.ricultural Adjustment Ad-ininistration Ad-ininistration announces that nearly four million youtitf pics have already lieen slaughtered in the pork reduction reduc-tion campaign and now it is announced announc-ed that an additional 1,0'Ji.tiOO pi;;" are to be purchased and eliminated as future pork iroilucers. The el feci of the pitf slaut',hteritnr campain-n l hardly essted to be felt until December De-cember 1st, yet the fact that the 19:U pork supply is to Im reluced by several million bead cannot be other than u favorable influence on market sentiment. Cattle juices have shared in the upward swihi: in values in the middle west and this should reflis't favorably favor-ably on Pacific coast prices as this -ectiotf partieuUirly soi'hern California, Cali-fornia, is and has been actively competing com-peting for lu'ef supplies with the middle west. The Los Angeles market mar-ket for some time has been relatively higher, irrad0 for crude, than Mis--ouri river points. Demand is particularly par-ticularly good on the Ixis Aneules nintket for goo.1 quality young fed raklo. Fed baby In-eves have been sellinic tit I Os Angele up to S7.U0 and Ix-ttor, a hiirlier price than has been paid for sumo time on the Mis--ouri river market. InU'rnountain cattle and lambs are now nmvinn in volume but bis-ause of drought conditions, many of the e cattle lack finish. It srnin ve'y likely th:vt a larger proportion of tin' ranee cattle supply will be in thin or feeder flesh than normally. Many of these cattle will h" forced into bevf channels Ix-cau-e of a narrow feedi r cattle demand, brought on both bv feed shortage and difficulty in financing. fin-ancing. It seems probable that rri-gated rri-gated and dry lot feeding will be on the increa-e in California and Arizona Ari-zona this winter. J ist what the California Cali-fornia demand for s'ockcr and feeder cattle for range replacement will amount to depends largely on weather wea-ther conditions. Range feed is vci y ,-hort in California this fall. Should this state have early rains that will be sufficient to bring out early green feed, there probably will be a tremendous tre-mendous demand for replacment I cattle. There should not be great dif-j I ficulty in obtaining financing, eithor |