Show DROUTH RELIEF SITUATION IN A now new estimate under date of august angust 10 lias has been made of feed available 1 in thi the e state stafe of utah the earlier ur ller estimate of hay available la is not changed essentially the 14 tatos states hay supply la Is approximately bitely 10 40 per cent of normal ormal it subsidized feeds ft adi have fallen to such it low supply that tile the low amount of liay Is even more inore intense as aa it affects tile tho live stock industry than the lie low percent indicates says bays elate director of drouth relief I 1 last year the production of sugar beets in utah was thousand tons the august forecast tor for this commodity la is thousand thol lland tons tona tills this moana means a tre mendon loss in sugar beet pulp inola isei seq find beet tops Tho index number for or slimmer glimmer pasture la Is only 33 per cent and d that of the range ranee 53 per cent fon t these aro are the lowest figures recorded ree ordea in 20 years rallis rains in august and september art may help the pastures find and ranges but will not lot materially affect abe winder food feed supply just as sure auro as there tire are seasonal seu donal changes winter will come with the necessity of feeding livestock the intensity of what the kloter might bo be Is 18 conjecture because tile thy la Is 60 per cent below tho the feed normally aval available lable for fe foed loc cattle during the winter a pro grina his has been outlined for a 40 per cent shrink in fit cuttle to lie 10 fed this means that there be cli clisper spes off ed of in fit the state of utah approximately thousand licad head of rattle cattle forty thousand licad head bo be sold old through tile normal channels clit innels for commercial mea moat t consumption lon the thousand should he bo edin ed cd in tile the government lii hig program these figure 4 can call only lu be general estimates but lit in the tha faco face of tl li ae e drouth the alie state Is 18 ing arid and tile the definite assuras assur aw e of a short winter feed supply it seems only sensible for this year that every farmer reduce the num bor of livestock to be fed in proportion to tho the feed available and what normally should be necessary to feed buch a number of livestock from november until stay may ut to arid and including august is 16 there has been purchased cattle in the state of utah about olio third of what Is estimated for disposition the program should shoud bt be complete by november because file he object of making this sale Is to savu davir feed for the winter supply lyana and the cattle buying program should not fco be carried on oil into the period p arlod when feeding ot of hay find and grain la Is necessary bark every farmer la Is to make a careful inventory of feed available and then to cull and keep tho the I 1 post best animals its as a foundation hard I 1 for the auturo futuro and to dispose of odthe the balance as aa rapidly as tho the program will permit word has come recently t i this office that tho the federal government la is going to provide teed feed lif case none la Is available tula this office has not leen been advisor that any fred feed will be available to ie ii by the federal other triau all that hat being provided through th roligh flie feed loan office feed in the knole united kt gt ms Is 1 short A recent report indicates that for the nation its as a whole feed available la Is only 61 per ier cent ut of mr mal tile tho experience of the tha scarcity or of feed in and the high celces that were paid during the following winter la Is an outstanding memory with many inacy of the cattle and dairy mop of the state in that year there were many cases where more was paid to feed the animals the wilt last gix elx of winter than the animals were worth we condition has been recognized and the federal i governments cattle pure hasu pro gram provided provi dod to give relief it to la the best program wo we know of that will vill ha be offered A report from the federal ovorn overn says OR on tho the basla basis atif ot present j estl mato of crop and food feed apply in t relation to livestock numbers and tho the drouth officials believe it may bo be necessary to purchase as ninny as seven cattle calves and from two to five million sheep and go oata its when snow cornea feed will not bo be available lu in many localities the feed on the farm should be sufficient to maintain the cattle through the winter tito the cattle purchasing program Is proceeding prove satisfactorily air peterson Pc terson the estimator est imato of reduction made for the state Is only a general estimate estlin ate but the responsibility of what reduction should be ba made on each farm Is 13 that of the owner already too much hay which should be retained for winter feed tug is being fed to stock which normally antl fly should bo be on oil posture pasture this is 3 cutting the supply for winter and tile the urge la is that a reduction bo be made immediately 0 to o conserve all thi feed possible for winter so a large argo number of the best livestock lit in the herd may bo be kept as is a foundation for the future livestock industry of tile the state the very best facilities have been afforded by the VERA for tho the transportation of tile the cattle both by rail arid and truck pull full cooperation Is solicited from every person bhoj who finds himself short of feed to boj doj do everything possible to make this 1 program function |