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Show SALT LAKE ST0C1E! LOOK Fomwioi Improved Transportation Facilities and Adjustment of Rates Helpful. Due to the Increased demand for meat products in Furopc Incident to the closing clos-ing of the world war and the improved rates and transportation facilities offered western livestock producers and stockyard stock-yard owners, Salt Take livestock men are looking for a large expansion in their business this year, according to Fred J. Leonard, secretary and treasurer of the Union Stockyards at North Salt Lake. Coupled with these conditions, said Mr. Leonard, is the letting down of the bars of food consumption in the United States, which will react to increase the consumption con-sumption of meat and meat products in this country. "People have been underfeeding iii this country during the war," said Mr. Leonard, "but there is now no need of carrying on the policy of war-time conservation. con-servation. AYe have plenty of meat, and because of the lessening demand on the stockmen to supply the needs ot tho military mili-tary service, prices on all ' meats, with the exception of pork, have dropped. "We have an adequate supply ot feeder cattle in this part of the country, and we are now being successful in securing a supply of hogs more commensurate with our needs. The supply of sheep is good, although it is not yet possible to prophesy just what effects the continued drought will have on it. We are planning, however, how-ever, for our regular buck sale during the latter part of August, and this promises prom-ises to be the greatest since these sales were instituted." Mr. Leonard agreed with reports recently re-cently circulated in Omaha stock circles that during the period of reconstruction Europe will make very heavy demands upon this country for meat, as the European Euro-pean farmers will slaughter a smaller number of meat animals than normally If sufficient supplies of meat can be secured abroad. They must save, so far as possible, every female animal for breeding purposes. These facts have led some stockmen to believe that the American Ameri-can farmers, and livestock producers should pursue a policy of normal growth, expanding the meat industry in a normal manner, Improving methods, and by skill and science reducing their production costs to the lowest possible point. StockgTowers point to the fact that livestock production in this country has not kept pace with the increases in population. popu-lation. The n timber of cattle in this country this year is given as 44.39P.000. In 1900 there were fj0,000,000; In 19W, 6, 000,000. There baa been an increase in the last five years over the 1914 figures, fig-ures, but - stockmen assert this increase has not been sufficient to care for the demand. They assert that in the next twenty-five years the United States must take care of twenty or twenty-five millions mil-lions more people, and that since the stock market cannot be developed over night, plans for the task must now be made on a sound economic basis. Statistics on sheep show that there were 61.505.000 In this country in 1900. This year there are 49.S63.000 and this has been the average number for the last five years, although 1919 shows an increase in-crease of about a million over 1918. The'-number The'-number of hogs in this country is given as 75,687,000, while in 1900 there were 62.S6S.000, there having been a steady increase in-crease in production since that year. As evidence that there has been no overproduction overpro-duction of pork, stockmen point to the present prices, which are still going up. The pork supply sen' abroad in such staggering volumes has just partly been made up by the increased production. According to government calculations, the outlook for a good crop of corn throughout the entire corn belt is more encouraging than it was two weeks ago. notwithstanding the wet weather in the corn belt which prevented the proper handling of the crop earlier In the season. sea-son. Fine weather recently has changed conditions materially. The government reports that the acreage acre-age this year is estimated at 100,930,000, as against 107.000,000 acres last year. The prpsent condition of the crop, however, warrants an estimated yield of 2,735.-0jO...O 2,735.-0jO...O bushels, as compared with 2,583,-000,000 2,583,-000,000 harvested in 1918. |