Show Livestock Situation by J A McNAUGHTON Nature is th the final dictator of production crop production Nature has i a a way of wiping out surplus production even when man insists on greater Eater crop acreage acre l in the face aCQ ot of dis dis- dis mark markets is a and d below sellin selling price Our wheat crop rop this I season promises to be one of or the smallest in the past years rears not because of acreage reduction but because nature failed to sup sup- supply sup supply ply the normal growing conditions We are arc in the midst of the great greatest greatest est cat economic experiments in alII all modern time Theorists who have I been our greatest scholars of I economics are working out I intricate intricate cate policies calculated to re regulate I production in line with probable consumption But bc before ore these I economists have ha a chance to put their theories into practice nature comes along with drouth und and hot winds and proves that man has little chance to actually regulate production I What is true with crops appears I to be 00 true to some extent with livestock We hear increasing re- re reports reports re reports I ports of or ra a ravages s of cholera in swine herds losses from anthrax blackleg and other diseases in cat cat- cattle cattle tic cat tle Man knows hoto how ho to ly combat and prevent such disease through h the use of proven ins ins and serums scrums yet we continue to have such losses largely because many stockmen in an effort to economize attempt to get by in periods of low prices Yet even at I present unsatisfactory values of livestock death losses cost a 1 great more than the mone money spent pent for preventatives Every precaution should now be betaken betaken betaken taken to prevent losses in live live- livestock livestock livestock stock by di diseases in view of the general belief t that at prices are on the upward trend I There is an old school of market students who have a firm belief in inthe inthe I the theory that the workings working's of supply and demand coupled with the elements clements will eventually solve I problems of production and market marketing marketing marketing ing the rank and file of I stockmen and packers are in that class But we tried that system I and look what it got ot us into Now were we're going to experiment on a as s system stem of planned production and if Nature doesn't interfere too much it ma may work The country i ihas has had such a troublesome period under the old method of each in- in individual individual in for himself that all of us are more or less willing now usI to I enroll in the new school and see how the new s system stem works out |