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Show SALE OF BREEDERS DEPLORED BY CAINE Unpatriotic to Dispose of Animals Needed to Produce Livestock, Director Says. It is not only unwise, but unpatriotic for farmers and livestock men to sell breeding animals for meat at this time of livestock shortage, declares Professor John T. Caine III, director of the extension exten-sion division of Utah Agricultural college. col-lege. The shortage will be more acute next year than it is tins, under the best conditions. The present shortage is due to three thinzs, says Professor Caine. The hard winter and late spring have resulted in a very small increase in numbers oT livestock. live-stock. All over the countrv the lambing season has been a d isappotntment, the farrowing has been light, and the calve horn have been relatively few. A second cause is t lie hisii price of meat. This has caused the livestock owners to place everv available animal on the blo-k. j Had Utah had rjlenty of breedable ! sows, the hovs' pig chrbs might have been ' sunolied from a home market, asserts Professor Caine. As It was. over s.r.n 1 brood sows were imported, at an average I ori'e of The enlarged packing Interests in Utah will take care of any increase in animal production, sa" Professor Caine. so that farmers a nd livestock owners need not fear overproduction. Prices for all animals ani-mals will continue good for some time to come. |