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Show SHORTAGE OF KAY BECOMING SERIOUS Livestock and Dairy Industries Indus-tries Face Threatening Condition. OGDEN', March 15. Admitting that the farmers of this county are facing a serious condition which threatens the livestock and dairy industry, directors of these projects in the Weber county farm bureau met todaj' in an effort to devise plans for obtaining a supply of hay. Hundreds of head of stock, both dairy cattle and feeding stock, are being disposed of as fast as the farmers cau sell, according to W. P. Thomas, county agricultural agent. There is virtually no hay in this city or immediate vicinity, and the small stock to be had is held at almost prohibitive pro-hibitive prices, according to the farm bureau directors. It has been ascertained ascer-tained that hay may be purchased in southern Idaho, but again the tarmers face the car' shortage situation and prospective freight embargoes on account ac-count of the threatened strike. Nevertheless Never-theless the bureau directors today were investigating the possibility of obtaining obtain-ing sufficient funds to purchase hay in Idaho, ship it to this city and sell to the farmers at absolute cost, thus eliminating elim-inating some of the expense. According to the bureau directors, the dairymen of this county especially are facing a grave condition. "When a dairyman puts a fork of hay in the manger these days," said one of the directors, "he sees 50 cents going out with a certainty that he will not receive re-ceive more than 10 cents in return." In the case of the farmers who are feeding feed-ing livestock for the market, half-famished animals are being sold to prevent pre-vent them from "eating their heads off." Those present at the conference today to-day were W. P. Thomas, county agent; John Felt, director of the dairy project; proj-ect; T. E. Powell, director of the feeding feed-ing livestock division, and H. B. Stall-ings, Stall-ings, livestock farmer of Ogdeu valley. |