Show Meat Supplies Apt to toBe toBe Be Ere Short This Summer Research Report Indicates Chicago Meat Chicago Meat supplies will willbe willbe be short this summer as feeding and production adjustments are being made to keep up witty Wit the effects of price ceilings and con con- controls trots II It M. M Conway director of research reports In Jn the May Is Issue is sue of the Live Stock Producer The price outlook has great Influence on the marketing marketing market I ing InK of meat animals Conway writes and the heavy marketing market ing of sows and lighter weight hogs the past few months will not only cut down on the number num ber bet of market pigs available for summer and fall tall markets but also on the number of packing sows that normally made up a considerable share of the summer sum mer met pork supply The Tile pork situation may not become evident until a lowering of the supply supply probably probably In mid mid- and an and an Increase In demand demand de de- de mand should justify a considerably consider ably higher price for live hogs Such an advance would be rA r fleeted In n only moderately higher high er retail prices Beef Deef supplies during the summer sum mer will also be down as a are re result re- re suit sult of the of the market during the past tall fall and winter which caused many feeders feed ers era to market cattle prematurely or short of finish Other feeders put their cattle on pasture or roughage and plan to finish they with this seasons season's corn which will delay marketing un un- tIl 11 winter or early spring Current price controls have been jeen significant In depressing he the the fed lamb market during the past winter and lamb Iamb supplies are expected to continue short untIl mill summer midsummer when an Increase In crease In marketing may be expected ex However with with- the increase in in- crease rease In sheep production slow slow- Ing ng up It Is Important that the present crop be quite evenly dIstributed over the crop year This Involves a ill rather heavy movement of ot feeder lambs Iambs through the feedlots In order to assure a a. a reasonably adequate supply during the winter and early sprint spring |