Show G GOOD O YEAR fUR fUn FOR u. u S LIVESTOCK iNDUSTRY IN Prospects ot of another favorable year for the livestock Industry ar arc reported by the bureau or of agricultural tural economics United States tic dc- dc of agriculture In its February February Feb Feb- 1 report on the tho situation The 1929 market supply o of hogs Is expected to bo be considerably smaller sm than that of 1928 the thc bu bu- J a au says Some Improvement ii In Inthe the foreign demand for American pork products Is Indicated and U no material chango Ix in domestic demand domand do- do mand Is anticipated Hog during 1929 are expected to considerably higher than In 1928 TIle The combined spring and fall fail pig crop of 1928 as Indicated by the thc bureaus bureau's pig surveys was about 5 p pr l' l cent smaller for the corn belt than the crop of 1927 but the distribution dis dis- of the 1928 crop crop over the corn belt states was In bettez relation relation rela- rela tion to corn supplies than that of the 1927 crop as to hog for tho marketing year 1928 to October 1929 sJ says s 's the tue bureau Indicates a slaughter of rom to 45 head compared with a slaughter head for the crop year ear 1927 OUTLOOK FAVORABLE The immediate outlook for cattie cattle cat cat- tie tle according to the ilie report continues continues con con- favorable with prices about at the of the cycle Further 1 in market supplIes In is Indicated hut but the decrease probably will not be as much as that of 1928 of grain finished fin fin- cattle the Ule first half of 19 1929 9 arc expected to equal or exceed those in the first half of last year yeal thy Any increase 18 tn in such cattle however how how- C ever Cl is likely to be offset by tie tie- creased supplies of other kinds of slaughter cattle Supplies of lambs for marketing the first half of 1929 are slightly larger than during last year and indications in in- are are that a larger tl tion n of western fed lambs will be marketed after if tel March 1 than last year ear She Sheep p numbers continued to iric during 1928 and the lamb crop this year year- ear may show some Increase in- in crease above last years year's crop Wool p in iii this country and in important foreign producing countrIes countries coun- coun tries during the 21 1928 season is to be about G C per cent larger than for the preceding sc seaon sea sea- on and steaks in primary m markets have e bee beers Increased L Last st seasons season's I lIghtly reduced supplies and active foreign demand this season have M t. t prices for lower grade wools Thi seasons season's larger wool sup supplies Ues and th the declining tendency in foreign not been reflected b by a decline in prices of wool in hi the United States HORSES DECLINE The number J of horses continues tp tp decline and Is no flO s aX at the loweSt low low- 10 West W- W est point in forty years ears Judging hy by the born in 19 1928 5 sa s the bureau p. p number of horses will continue to decline horse Ices pt-Ices are lC advancing ad The rhe bureau advises that now seems to tobe be bd an excell excellent nt time fo fot many farm farm- to om old or horses with youn oung animals Tha number of dairy cows Is reported as about the same as a year ear ago but year year- hog ng heifers helfers and heifer calves shoW some increase in numbers In the past says the bureau price situations like that which prevails now in the cattle Industry have been followed by increased production tion and reduced prices Therefore the bureau advises a new entering the industry but those already in may profit by expansion the next two or three ears even though prices goo go somewhat lower than at |