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Show I OF PORK 18 URGED j 1 Campaign to Increase Number Num-ber of Hogs in Utah Is Planned. Hogs furnished the principal theme for discussion at a meeting held at the National Na-tional Copper bank and attended by W, VY. A rmsiroiig, stale food administrator; J. ' Edward 'I aylor. executive secrr-tary of the food administration; P. D. McKay, president presi-dent of the state, farm bureau; F. S. Hatch, manager of the Ogden Packing & Provision company: J. H. Manderfield, manager of The T.'nion Stock Yards company; com-pany; J. W. Kirk ham, editor of the Utah Farmer; H. B. Joy, specialist in pork production of the United States department depart-ment of agriculi ure, and John T. Caine, HI, director of the extension division of j the Utah Agricultural college. The meeting was railed to outline a : campaign for increased pork production j hroughout the state and a survey Is now being made by county agricultural agents and bureaus in order to obtain the number of sows on hand, the number num-ber needed by the farmers in various parts of the state, and the number for sale. Uesults already have been obtained from this survey, all showing that the farmers arc anxious to get hold of carloads car-loads of hogs, and the reports indicate a willingness on the part ot" the farmers to do their share and to act when the logical way is pointed out. A publicity campaign was outlined for increased pork production, 'anrl all the farm bureaus of the, state will take an at tlve part in getting out letters and posters and will aid materially in the work. In line with Mr. Hoover's recent announcement that wheat and hogs will win the war, it lias been found that in Utah the increase in pork production is most urgent a t present. Tli ere is a great scarcity of bogs in the state, it is reported, the farmers having apparently gone out of the hog raising business and the local packers are securing fewer hogs now than ever before. In fi!4 there were about 112,000 hogs in V ta h . T here a re n ow approx i -mhtely so. 000 and there should be at least 200,000, experts say, as the state can support that number easily. Now, due to the food administration, the prices of hogs, it is announced, will be stabilized, and hogs will not go below be-low ?15.50 per hundred on foot at Chicago, Chi-cago, which naturally means a good price to the Utah producer, and under the present conditions here hogs can be raised with great profit. As they are considered the mortgage -lifters of the farm, there is a good opportunity opening open-ing up now for the Utah farmer to be one of the profit sharers tn the increased in-creased pork production of the state, the food adininistra tion sets out. The food administration also announces an-nounces that it is back of the movement in a whole-hearted way, and the farmers undertaking to do their share in the important im-portant movement fdr increased production produc-tion will find loyal support in their efforts, ef-forts, to say nothing of big financial gains. |