Show aA M There has been a consistent campaign carried on t the e west in the past few years to encourage hog production The need is apparent as in order to meet the requirements of the rapidly wm western tern consumer demand on the Pacific it i is necessary to reach as far back a as the Missouri River markets to secure supplies The Pacific Coast prices of hoes of occasional fluctuations maintaIned maintained main main- a. a over the Missouri l river markets mar mar- this nr arl the expense e. e shrInk loss and other items incident to long distance hog hoe and In favor of the western hog producer This advantage willbe win will be maintained until western production meets western dem demand nd and this does not at all likely for many years vears as increase In- In crease crea e in production has scarcely met the ratio of supply to dem demand de- de m mand nd due to increases in population on the Pacific Pacific Pa- Pa coast In some Quarters the has been advanced that an supply over of hogs is present on the farms of the United States accounting for the declining hot hog prices during the Past few months This is not born out by the census as going goin back twenty years the census shows that durin during that time 13 years showed substantially more hogs on the farms than is shown in January 1928 There has been a gradual increase since 1926 when there were 51 million hogs 1927 with 54 million and 1928 with 58 million However in 1919 tb te were 74 million hogs In the country and several other years year showed amounts considerably con I in excess of the present number so that this would I not indicate an over supply It is true there have been heavy marketing of hogs in the past few weeks which may be attributed to a large extent to the strong strone position of the corn market as last weeks week's corn went over the mark which was not anticipated last fall In the face of heavy the ho hog has held a l even keel due somewhat to the high prices of beef brin bringing ng about an Increase in pork consumption which absorption of heavy hog receipts without pronounced break in prices It Itis Itis is true there is not as much corn cor available as was anticipated and that there are more hogs than were expected but there seems little doubt in the minds of close observers that these heavy will reflect themselves next fall and I which it is reasonable to r winter in curtailing supplies 1 will result in stronger prices The hog producer who stays consistently consistently con con- with his production and i is s not cran an in and ou outer er attempting attempting at- at tempting to follow the market and usually finding himself on onI I the wrong side hide will no doubt benefit during the next few months by having stayed with his production The producer who raises hogs year in and year out not making them his main line of production but carrying enough to follow cattle or to salvage the many waste items which can be turned into pork has shown good returns right along t regardless of market fluctuations Hog production is not ua a rich quick proposition but it is a stable bust busi get and one which it will S stand tand western producers in hand to ness always keeping an eye to hOw ly hogs can be foster produced by utilizing waste products rather than following the thein bu market in skipping in and out of the In California slight increases in production are shown but S- S there are only about sixty percent as m many ny hogs on the farms as were ten years ago And that state is still required to there 90 percent of what it uses ses in hogs and hog products to import meet its demands In the long run there seems to be a definite ite market with a fair and reasonable margin of profit in it to get get in and stay in the hog bog business 1 |