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Show PAGE FOUR ANdTaCKIACIUTES OGDEN'S LIVESTOCK tr., I i ft mmmmMmMri mi J-.- .'"' f.-- ? PAGE FIVE UTAH STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION SUPPLEMENT UTAH STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION SUPPLEMENT i A; LARGEST NTERMOUNTAIN WEST 1N A, 41 1 jl - 1 V5!) U i a - it t yi cm "'Art A COLISEUM Ogden Livestock Show Recognized in U. S. fell - 'V' v-- 17 SECTIONS OF STOCKGROWERS, Modern Feed Yard Located at Ogden By II. A. McDOUGAL Feed yards located in West Ogden 's and owned and operated by the Incorporated, a Utah corporation, is the outgrowth of a small beginning made prior to 1905 in the feeding of livestock. When this firm was in its infancy, beet pulp, and other cheap forage stuff were then available in Utah was the chief feed. Few head of livestock were then being fitted for market at this institution. Now thousands of head are fattened for the butcher, and the volume of business runs into the millions annually. In our present age of scientific economy, it is no longer possible for a person to go about his business blindly. This can be certain, particularly to the feeders and raisers of livestock. The sudden changing of prices and other conditions has necessitated a change of feeding methods, and the adoption of the scientific method of feeding balanced rations, which method has been worked out and encouraged by the government after the department of agriculture had for a number of years spent huge Stock-grower- ; ' 'V,' i sums of money in practical experi ments and demonstrations, and those government methods were then and are now the ones in use by the suc cessful feeders of the middle and eastern states, and forced the adoption of new methods by wes'tern feeders of livestock. Cheap labor is a thing of the past. and bulky and heavy farm products and livestock feeds will, generally d and speaking, remain that condition will require the feeders to abandon all wasteful methods so as to get full value and effectiveness out of all feeds used to fatten and finish livestock for market. At the Incorporated will be found the latest facilities for handling and feeding livestock, thus insuring the grower the greatest marginal profits obtainable. The time has passed when livestock carelessly fed will return a prof it to the feeder, Economic feeding of livestock means the production of the greatest number of pounds of meat on animals possessing enough to sell on the open market at prices which will return to the feeder a maximum profit over cost of marketing. In figuring' the proper financial outcome in fattening livestock, one must always take into consideration the costs incident to the high-price- Stock-growe- . . , , i 7- -- V r's St.M v INC., FEED YARDS purchase of the animals, bringing them to the feed lot and likewise the subsequent expense of marketing them after they are fattened, including cost of shipping, loss through shrink age in live weight on shipment and incidental expenses at the sale The factors influencing the neces sary margin in fattening are: 1. Initial cost of the animals; 2. Initial weight; 3. Expense 'in getting animals to feed lot and then to market when Other conditions remaining equal, the higher the initial cost (purchase price) the narrower is the .necessary margin, the heavier the animal of feed the narrower will be the necessary margin, for the increased selling price is secured for a greater number of pounds of initial weight. The science of proper feeding is attracting the attention of the entire feeding world. Upon it depends the success of both the producer and the feeder. The primary beneficial materials in a feed are protein and carbohydrates; hence it is necessary to know not only the gross amount of protein and carbohydrates and fat contained in a feed, but also the percentage of digestibility of each. Af-- ' ''.. v. mrmmmmttdum A HOLSTEIN WINNER AT THE OGDEN LIVESTOCK SHOW ter the feeder so learns to balance his ration, he will at once begin to econ omize. Economically, the feeder must deviate from the old method of feeding corn, oats, or other cereals to obtain the best results, in the least time, at the minimum cost that is his feeding problem. After scientific and successful ex perience, the Stockgrower's Incorpor ated manufactures a balanced feed for livestock, which is rnsurpassed. Alfalfa and grain are ground to a meal form for various reasons. Primarily because it increases the feed value, and it may be shipped more easily, either m bulk or sacked. And what is very important, the grinding oreaics tne pianc ceu structure, permitting easy digestive assimilation. The grain is ground to the desired rize, and hay is uniformly chopped and ground to the desired size; the hay is uniformly chopped and ground and then mixed with the necessary amount of molasses. The dust and awkwardness of hay is thereby eliminated. Every mouthful of balanced feed is as prescribed by the laboratory. Contrasting their present feeding methods with that of the old, it was necessary to feed livestock from 135 to 160 pounds for a period of 90 to 120 days, as against their present method of 25 to 35 pounds of mixed feed for a period of 40 to 70 days. They feed livestock on the basis of three pounds per each hundied pounds liveweight, which ration should fatten the at the rate of two or three pounds per head ptf day an increase tested repeatedly and proven beyond doubt. It is the aim of the Stockgrower's Incorporated to c6operate with the producers of livestock by giving the shipper facilities whereby he can obtain an Ogden market which will feed and finish his livestock in its yards before, going to the selling markets of the eastern yards. The Ogden union stockyards is the logical selling place for .all intermountain livestock shippers to build up a Utah market and prepare their livestock for top prices of eastern markets. Tha facilities given by this company will assist in making Ogden the logical selling point for all classes of livestock grown in Montana, Oregon, Nevada, California, Idaho and western Wyoming, This company does not establish a selling market or attempt to control prices. The best commission firms in the country send representatives to Ogden when fat livestock are ready for market. This also establishes Ogden as a cash market. As the hoof of the animals first beat paths in the valley lands and ' " I ' By REED W. WARNICK The Ogden livestock show, held annually in the Coliseum at Ogden, Utah, has come to be recognized as one of the four or five leading livestock expositions of America. This show, established in 1920, has developed from a small beginning into an exhibition of some of the choicest livestock produced in twenty states. The quality of the fine cattle, hogs and sheep thatgather here for competition during six days in early January are the equal of the best found at similar exhibitions in any part of ti J,. ...A Ogden Is Livestock Center of Region By L. F. WHITLOCK is known as thp livestock center of the intermountain region. This reputation has been gained throuerh the various enternrisAa dred to the livestock hnsinpss that haa grown up here during the last ten or iuteen years among which are the Offden union stock vnrHa Yin moot Oerden lri-n- packin? establishment, feed varda. creameries and dairies. PerhaDS the most imnnrtaTit. onnM. tion that has influenced the growth oi ugaens livestock industry is its location in alnost a geographical center of the greatest range area in this country. With the exception of min ing ana some scenic and recreation appeal, our mountains are most. hspH tnr the feeding of cattle and sheep, and tne aesert areas which cover the largest portion of this inland empire are little used other than for the grazing of sheep. Consequently, the sec tion oi tne country that surrounds Oirden on either sirta ?a tvnipall-ia livestock producing area, and it is nat ural ior ugaen to oecome important in the various activities related to livestock production and distribution. Another thing that has influenced the growth of this market and the importance of this city in the livestock program of this intermountain country is the fact that seven great rail- iuau mies converge nere each of them tapping a section rich in the production of livestock, and in turn, each of tbsm i. ... radiation. me great consuming centers, either in the i iuung uie racnic coast. It would be difficult to name an exact date for the birth of the livestock industry in this city. Conditions favorable to that growth have always been here since the city was settled, and even before the stockyards were established, many people were active in th production and shipping of livestock. But, no doubt, the that has done more to give Ogdenthing an idenas a livestock tity stock yards, established here in 1917. wunout tne there could not have beenstockyard3, the same degree of growth in the market, and without the market of greater scope than merely the supply of local demand for livestock products thera would not have been the development in the livestock operation at this point that has already taken place, nor would a future growth, which is now so promising, be likely. Besides the stockyards, Ogden is the home of a large feeding industry through the mountain passes, so did the pioneers seek the easier way from the east to the west and followed the ways already used, and when the engineers of the great rail highways surveyed for track bedding, they followed the paths of the animals and the pioneers. All had learned Sir .: v;v 'W ' I ' ...... A CHOICE STEERS AT THE OGDEN UNION STOCK YARDS f i that nature had full sway, and-ththe pioneers had pointed the way; that the rivers had cut the eoreea and that the efforts of any moving power. Na- lU1' "ireciea, ana railroads have made Oerden th northwest and the outlet to the east for the intermountain country and of the great Salt Lake, Columbia river and Snake river basins with their hundreds of head of livestock, and hundreds of thousands of tons of alfalfa, cereals and molasses. The stockmen in the intermountain region are taking advantage of the facilities .that are offered by the Stockgrowera' Incorporated, as may be seen by the volume of business which they do annually. It is to build Ogden as a livestock helping center and more important than anything else giving the livestock grower the greatest maximum returns. HOME OP OGDEN LIVESTOCK SHOW In fact, the Ogden live- cash premiums to the winners in the stock show has won renown as the various classes of cattle, sheep and meeting place of the champions of the swine recognized by this show. This , . livestock kingdom. is proportioned out to more money This show was initiated for the than 100 coming from all purpose of promoting the production sections ofexhibitors, the west of the country of better livestock in the intermounMississippi river. At the last show, tain section, and to prove the value of held 11th to 16th, 1930, there more scientific and feeding were January 1700 choice animals exnearly methods. There is little question but what both of these purposes have been hibited, the bevalue of which could conestimated at nearly accomplished- - to a large degree, and servatively worth of livestock $156,000 of the benefit this exhibition is best reflected in the better grade of beef, was sold during the show. Most fe-of mutton and pork and the more pro- these good sires and foundation ductive dairy cattle that are being males were distributed in the intermountain and their influence produced at the present time through- will be feltcountry, in the better grade of liveout the surrounding territory. stock that will be produced during the Approximately $20,000 is offered in next few years. the country. up-to-d- Thousands of head of livestock are slaughtered each year in its packing plants, and more recently there has been a greater activity started along the line of production and manufacturing of dairy products. The Ogden union stock yards cov ers an area of nr acres 30 acres nf whih pletely covered with pens, barns, rail- owitciies ana other equipment necessary for the handling of the thousands of heads of cattle, sheep, and hogs. The union stock yards openl ed for business April 1, 1917, and since that time there have been re- iciveu i,iii,zm head of cattle; 2,- nnni-nvi'mo- The Ogden livestock show was held in one of the most modern and best equipped exhibition buildings in the country. This structure was erected at a cost of $130,000. Besides the exhibition of cattle, sheep, ard hogs, it also accommodates a poultry and seed exhibition held in connection with the show. One of the things that has made the Ogden livestock show possible with the exhibitors and breeders of livestock is the splended spirit of hospitality that has been shown by the people of this city. Special attractions are featured at the amusement places which coupled with the entertainment program sponsored by the stock show management makes this a week of recreation and amusement for the people from outlying sections who come to Ogden to view the splendid exhibits of livestock. The slogan "Spend your winter vacation in Ogden during the Livestock Show" is widely known to people in all parts of the country, and each year several thousand gather here during the show week. The twelfth annual Ogden livestock show will be held January 10 to 15, 1931. Judging from the trend of development in the past, this exhibition will far surpass all previous ones held in this city, and will doubtless secure for Ogden greater acclaim and push the Ogden livestock show a step farther in prominence among similar events held elsewhere in this country. point, for 8 hours each day, it would take 8 years and 5 months for this string of livestock to pass. I y- - i'-c- Packing Company Aid To Livestock Raisers ar m d FACTS AND FIGURES The Ogden Livestock Show Established: January, 1920. Value of livestock sold at last Number of, exhibitions, held to date, 11; show auction sales ...1...."..$ 156,000.00 (One each year.) beef cattle, Total Premiums offered at last show, Departments: Pure-bre- d d swine, pure-bred pure-bre520,000.00. dairy cattle, Number of states from which exhibits pure-bre- d sheep, fat cattle, fat sheep, fat gather, 20. hogs, feeder cattle, boys' and girls clubs, Total number of animals exhiband seeds. ited at the Eleventh show.. 1,700 poultry Total value of animals exhibitDates of next show: January 10 to 15, ed, approximately $1,000,000.00 inclusive. 1929 slaughter, cattle 1929 slaughter, hogs 1929 slaughter, sheep FACTS AND FIGURES Meat Tmng Industry Ogden Smokehouse products (1929), 18,000 Lard produced (1929), tons 70,000 10,000 1,200 3,080,000 2,080,000 208 $310,500.00 pounds Sausage (1929), pounds Employees 1929 payroll AND FIGURES FACTS Livestock Feeding in Ogden 100 Number of livestock fed (1929), Area at feed vards. acres .... 1,000 at feed yards, cattle Capacity cattle 15,000 Capacity at feed yards, sheep in Number of livestock fed (1929), ; 20,000 open 125,000 sheep Capacity at feed yards, sheep in tons.. 30.000 Mixed feed consumed (1929), sheds 24,350 FACTS AND FIGURES The Ogden Union Stock Yards 191? Established 30 acres Area of pens and equipment 200 cars Capacity, cattle 250 cars Capacity, sheep 150 cars Capacity, hogs 1,411,206 $ since 1917, cattle Receipts 10,850,185 Receipts since 1917, sheep 2,506,931 Receipts since 1917, hogs 77,777 Receipts since 1917, horses and mules Total receipts since 1917 Value of receipts since 1917, cattle v- Value of receipts since 1917, sheep. .....t Value of receipts since 1917, hogs Value of receipts since 1917, horses and mules 14,846,099 $ $ S52'i?lS 2f5i 2o - Total value of receipts 'since 1917 Receipts during 1929, cattle Receipts during 1929, sheep during 1929, hogs Receipts during 1929, horses and 2J ooorr! d,8B8.5U ; $ 2,683i'S?7i 'IS - 'So i'An d5&J Jo-Rece- ipts mules Total receipts during 1929 Value of Receipts during 1929, cattle Value of receipts during 1929, sheep Value of receipts during 1929, hogs Value of receipts during 1929, horses and mules MS:fi f ? JSS'rio'rn 1J7 ,51J.5 , "fSjeS 1,776.50 332,438.65 Important factors in growth: Location, railroad facilities, market competition, convenience as distribution point, service and equipment. Total value of receipts during 1929 - $ sisting of a modern barn, covering the 36 pens to accommodate the handling of these small lots of livestock. This new division is a most recent addition to the equipment at the yards, but before the summer is over, twenty new cattle pens, which will make room for an additional 20 carloads of cattle, will be erected and a $100,000 sheep house is now under construction. The new sheep barn is a first unit in an authorized half million dollar improvement program to the yard More buildings and sheep division. equipment will be erected just as rap idly as the growth in receipts de mands. There is a tendency prevalent in the United States among the packers and manufacture of meat products to buy their livestock nearer the fields M I tot! ' - fV,, - 1 c33?fes SsaSc - ' !& v' "- of production than has formerly been the case. This trend in the livestock business will, no doubt, continue to influence a growth in this market. More and more each year buyers from concerns located in the east or along the Pacific coast are coming to Ogden stockyards for a part of the supply of livestock they use. As a result of this tendency, there was an 81 per cent increase in the sheep sales at the Ogden union stockyards during the year 1929, compared with 1928, and there is every reason to believe that there will be a continued growth in this market here during each succeeding year for several years to come. Grand I film lf M-- CI I Ll - "V ', a '. . eastern Idaho, western Montana and some of California. Of every dollar spent for expenses, it is estimated that 86 per cent goes to the purchase of the animals, leaving only 14 per cent for the rest of the overhead. The value of the packing industry to the intermountain country ia contained in their policy of putting their money back into their trade territory. For this reason, they strive to buy as many of the animals from this region as they can, and no farmer or rancher has ever had to look further than Ogden for hia market with fair prices assured him. Practically all of their buying is done through the Ogden union stock yards and when this market fails them they go elsewhere, still keeping within their trade territory. Some hogs are being shipped in from the middle west. To remedy this condition, they are urging the growing of hogs through prices equal to the great packing cen-- 1 ters of the middle west. It markets, its products under the Nectar and Sego Lily Mountain, brands, and is rapidly pushing these names into the best stores of the intermountain country and ths west. Each year shows a commanding increase in business with over $4,000,-00- 0 handled during the fiscal year from October 31, 1928, to October 31, 1929. Its products include some 70 items, among which are fresh and smoked pork, fresh beef and some pickled and fresh mutton. include hides, tallow and offal. The payroll of the company runs over $300,000 a year, or approximate ly $1,000 a day, distributed among r J -- 200 employees. With its percentage of profit on each article sold, cut to a minimum volume, haa become the crying need of the plant, and it is rapidly extending its distribution throughout Utah, this region, and are doing all in their power to promote this phase ox the livestock industry. Each year tney have given a party for the school boys of this territory who have been raising ton litters. The prices paid by the buyers, representing the packing company, have always been above the market, and have given added impetus to the move among the com ing farmers. Their daily caoacity permits them to handle 1500 hogs a day, but the local supply is far under this fig ure. They are also forced to do a certain amount of feedng of cattle to assure a steady supply of well conditioned beef. Producing 100 tons of cooking fat every month, 30 tons of sausages per week, and 30 tons of smoked meats per week, tho company operates on an investment of over $1,500,000. mi 9 'A ml TV ,f i r tux III "4 Ik .MB,......-- . , & W WEBER COUNTY CALF CLUBS OGDEN LIVESTOCK SHOW CHAMPIONS Last year Ogden's poultry plants shipped 250,000 pounds of live poultry and 500,000 pounds of dressed birds. Killing, dresing, and packing are all done here. Ogden's five banks, according to statements, have resources of practically 28,000,000 with deposits of nearly $25,000,000. Employes total 138 with a yearly payroll of $347,000. Last year 134,455 head of cattle, 76,194 hogs, 1,733,671 sheep and lambs 3,118 horses and mules were handled through Ogden's extensive stockyards. Conservatively figured this represents a total of $34,334,265. 00 through the yards. Cars into the Ogden stockyards totaled 13,293 and cars out 13,531 in Livestock from 23 different 1929. states was handled. 40 people are employed receiving annually 72,000.00 in wages at the Union stockyards alone. 1929 Employes in the eleven printing establishments total 153 with a payThese plants repre roll of $347,899. sent an approximate investment of $678,000. -! AIRPLANE VIEW OF OGDEN UNION.STOCK YARDS AND AMERICAN PACKING AND PROVISION COMPANY PLANT 506,931 hogs; 10,850,185 sheep, and the yearly average during the period of 1,142,008 head. 77,777 horses and mules a total reBy A. P. MILLER of all classes for of livestock Since the yards were established, it ceipts One of 'the largest single factors in A conservative es has required 123,463 railroad cars to 14,846,099rAead. A recent departure in livestock the raising of cattle, sheep and hogs timate ol uie value of thef2nimals' haul the livestock that has arrived in transportation has been the use of in the intermountain country, aside would amount to $105,840,449 for cat- this manner from various points in motor trucks. Each year more and from the natural forage and range of tle; $50,138,620 for hogs; $108,501,-85- 0 the country to these yards. If these more livestock are arriving at public conditions, has been the activities Provision American the and Packing one in it lined were for sheep, and $3,888,850 for cars train, up markets in trucks, rather than company, located in Ogden. horses and mules or a total value for would be 1029 miles in length. cars. For the eight months freight This plant has been functioning for all livestock received during the Could the total volume of livestock preceding March 1, 1930, there were many years as part of the industrial period of $268,369,770. represented in the receipts at the Og- more than 85,000 head of livestock section of Ogden, but it was not until There has been a consistent in- den union stockyards since they were listed as drive-receipts at the Og- three years ago, when it was organizcrease in the business done at the opened for business April 1, 1917, be den union stock yards. By far, the ed from the ashes of a past company, stockyards each succeeding year since placed in one continuous long, or suf- largest proportion of this number that it began to take its place as a they were established. During 1929 ficient length to more than encircle were brought here by trucks at the real assest to the community. the total number of livestock received the world, and moving at the rate of rate of an average of 26 truck loads Since that time, it has been a real was 2,175,544 head, as compared with 60O head per hour, by any given per day. factor in the encouraging of the live To take care oi this new business, stock industry,-anits buyers workthere has just been completed at the ing on the markets of the Ogden uni yards a new truck-i- n division, con- on stock yards have been bidding 13-ye- ar . Vte-- st4Xi4;"i r ' r 'vi'r r ';Tr TYPICAL OF FAT LAMBS RECEIVED AT STOCK YARDS ff : , |