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Show Livestock, Poultry Shows Increase During Past Year Utah livestock and poultry population popu-lation increased during 1949, first year of increase since the peak of Jan. 1, 1944, according to-a bulletin bulle-tin issued Friday by Bureau of Agriculture Economics. Cattle numbers on Jan. 1, 1950 were 2 greater than the previous year to total 560,000 head, while milk cows increased in number from 113,000 to 116,000. The high point in cattle numbers num-bers since 1940 was reached Jan. 1, 1945, when there were 584,000 head in Utah. Range cattle, exceeding ex-ceeding milk animals, increased about 2 compared with 3 in milk stock. Sheep numbers continued downward down-ward during 1949 to a total of 1,332,000 head, or 9 less than that of Jan. 1, 1949. Numbers of Sheep and lambs have increased steadily since the beginning of 1942, when 2,312,000 head were on Utah farms and ranges. The largest number of sheep since 1930 was on Jan. 1, 1931, when it was estimated there were 2,935,000 head. Poultry numbers wepe up 11 to an estimated 3,427,000 birds, almost as high as on Jan. 1, 1944, when it was estimated there were 3,494,000 birds in Utah flocks. Hogs and pigs decreased in number from 98,000 last year to 88,000 last year, despite an Increase In-crease in the national pig population popula-tion from 57,128,000 to 60,424,000. Aeronautical engineers are engaged en-gaged in experiments to widen the range of petroleum products which can be used for refueling jet plane engines. Kerosine, the current cur-rent fuel, represents only about six per cent of the products obtained ob-tained from a barrel of crude oil. Present plans are to use about 50 per cent of the products refined from a barrel of crude, a mixture that would contain all the kerosine and gasoline and about one-fourth of the heating oils in the crude barrel. |