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Show DEAD (ME STREW RJUKHES IN HIH Retail Price of Hay Reaches Record Price of $40 a Ton in Ogden. Special to The Tiibune. OGDEN", March 22. Dead cattle are lying ly-ing everywhere and hundreds are in imminent immi-nent danger of starving in the territory-north territory-north of the lake, according to D. D. McKay, Mc-Kay, president of the "Weber county farm , bureau, who returned loday after visiting j his sheep range near Terrace. j At six ranches where Mr. McKay stopped lit; found that only one had a ! supply of hay on hand, about twenty bales j which had been shipped from this city. ! The other five were absolutely without a pound of hay and very little of any other kind of feed. The starving cattle tn the lots have worn paths along the fences as Lhey pace up and down all day long bellowing for feed, according to the farm bureau. The situation with regard to sheep is almost al-most fts bad, according to Mr. McKay. Most of the ewes are thin and weak as a result of the hard winter and lack of feed. The retail price of hay in this city reached the record mark of $40 per ton yesterday, but the ability of the farm bureau bu-reau to provide relief for the farmers who have livestock caused the price to ,1 ir1.,,r t r.fr rnn Tha haw lliaf is being brought in by the bureau will cost the farmers about ?32 per ton on board the cars In this city. |