Show THE LIVESTOCK SITUATION By II J. J J A I LOS ANGLES UNION STOCK SOCK YARD-In YARD 1935 II Jr II Cabell r president of Armour Company Connan COI California ex- ex expressed expressed expressed while on a visit Wt i it to pressed the opinion of nion that hog hog pro pro- Suction in this state and ami adjoining states could profitably be beAt expanded At that time the hog Ilog market at the Los Angeles Union Stock Yards ards was not well supported S and Ar Armour Ar- Ar Armour Armour mour as ai well ell a as other national and independent packers packer were asked to get behind the hog hoc ho market here As Asa Asa a result of their consistent patron patron- patronage age aRc and cooperation we se now have havea a substantial hog market at the Los U s Angeles Union Stock Yards Yank Six days a week hog HOR producers bring in their shipments ranging from Jiom one head to carloads and receive cash rash for them on the day of sale I at this open competitive market Mr Cabell was guest of honor recently lit at t a luncheon given s.-Iven in his hit honor at Los Angeles and at that time reiterated his former state state- statement statement statement ment that California should pro pro- produce produce duce more hops hogs in of the am am- ample ampe ampie pie pe feed supply and the large amount of pork brought In from outside out ide the state Well over OUT half of If the pork consumed in California is ts produced in ill other states The logical course of hog expansion expansion expansion sion in California to my way ay of of thinking thin is in the addition of a afew afew afew few brood sows to ranches ranc hes as II S part of a diversified di program rather than the establishment of oC large specified grain feeding fet ranches Hogs 11 OAS OA'S as well as other forms of livestock Ii should be looked upon as asa asa a means of marketing feed raised on farms and ranches On most mo t ranches rancher there is in a certain amount of pasture and product byproduct feeds that can tan best be marketed through sw swine ine s The advisability of establishing grain feeding plants where the are arc kept in ill pins pens and fed on Oil grain that is is purchased stay may be question question- cd However there is no doubt about the soundness of keeping a n afew afew few sows so and raising fOlioing pigs pils to con con- consume sunie sume cull fruit grain rt lI screenings skim-milk skim and other by byproducts And An for the grain vrain farmer livestock Ii offers enter s year ear in mu m and c y jear tar car out on f t the im c most profitable means of oC marketing grain Of course there arc years ears in an i which losses must be sustained the I same as in in any nn other I business I. I but bill over a period of time marketing farm products through livestock constitutes the soundest program we have han |