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Show F PAGE FIVE UTAH STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION SUPPLEMENT PAGE FOUR 7 1 ' , , i Jk NM. (. wt iV , f a tv V A t AvrS- v,, iV-- ,Vc s Vt--i ; Ml ? t 7 t4 fY ,'(, s. 5 w wnm winmwmimum vv J , k , Y -- v ,5 w"'t 1, T? -- ,f4wt f r '4, fiv' SY I $, , ntif " rx , N r-'- x-; " s . ? VI.- - - - essuJP?' -- i , -- . - . v , I 1 ' ff n - - v r'o t' j Ogden Livestock Show Recognized in U. S. X Vf- - , u, jc, j :J j t E-;''-- caAs' x; -- 1 r. ! Ji ih - a5 h V5 ' j v, NiaR x- J V t 'Ti f"j v 4.'. 2Etar' we, ,V r: vf 1 SECTIONS Modern Feed Yard Located at Ogden By IL A. McDOtGAL Feed yards located a West Ogden arid owned and operated hr the Stock-growe- rs Incorporated, a Utah corporation, is the outgrowth of a small beginning made prior to 1905 4n the feeding of livestock, Whin, this firm was in its infancy, beet pulp, and other cheap forago stuff were then available in Utah was the chief feed. Few heed 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 rune into the million an- high-price- Stock-growe- nually. 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 The sudden changing of livestock. 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 - INC., FEED YARDS OF STOCKGROWERS, sums of money in practical experiments and demonstrations, and those government methods were then and are now the ones in use by the successful feeders of the middle and eastern states, and forced the adoption of new methods by western feeders of livestock. Cheep labor is a thing of the past, and bulky and heavy farm products and livestock feeds will, generally d and speaking, remain tha condition will require the feeders to abandon all wasteful methods so as to get full value and effectiveness out of all feeds used io 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 profit 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 at maximum profit over In- - figuring the cost-- of --marketing. proper financial outcome in fattening livestock, one must always take into consideration the costs incident to the , XT' Wr ,A . rs 4 w t r V'i X, $hl so learns to balance his purchase them to the feed lot and likewise the ration, he will at once begin to econof marketing omize. Economically, the feeder must subsequent expense them after they are fattened, including deviate from the old method of feedcost of shipping, loss through shrink- ing com, oats, or other cereals to obage in live weight on shipment and tain the best results, in the least time, incidental expenses at the sale mar- at the minimum cost that is his ket feeding problem. The factors influencing the necesAfter scientific and successful experience, the StockgroweFs Incorporsary margin in fattening are: ated manufactures a balanced feed 1. Initial cost of the animals; for -- livestock, which ia unsurpassed. Itittialweightr 3. Expense in getting animals to Alfalfa and grain are ground to a feed lot and then to market when frn- - meal form for various reasons. Primarily because it increases the feed and it may be shipped more - Other conditions remaining equal, value, easily, ether in bulk or sacked. And the higher the initial cost (purchase price) the narrower is the' necessary margin, the heavier the animal of feed the narrower wiy 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.-.th- e gross amount of protein and carbohydrates and fat contained in a feed, but also the percentage of digestibility of each. Af- - sN elim-irate- J r UP T '.V. A HOLSTEIN WINNER AT THE OGDEN LIVESTOCK SHOW - . HOME OF OGDEN LIVESTOCK 9 'x ounc avi V CAI Vs oga rwc ' 'AM- - ' & t i W A4' r,f . J 'k vV k fl i J 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 haa made the Ogden livestock show possible with $156,000 woh of livestock the exhibitors and breeders of livewas sold during the mow. Most "of stock is the splended spirit of hospithese good sires and foundation fe- tality that has been shown by the males were distribute! in the inter- jjople of this city. Special attractions mountain country, andjtheir influence are featured at the amusement places will be felt in the better grade of live- which coupled with the entertainment stock that will be proeaced during the program sponsored by the stock show management makes this a week of next few years. ar ed d. f ) w r SEr AFE : proi CHOICE STEERS AT THE OGDEN UNION STOCK YARDS k I i 501,388.20' 38,888.50 Value of receipts aince'1917, hogs.I Value of receipts since 1917, horses and mule- s- Total value of receipts since 1917 Receipts during 1929, cattle Receipts during 1929, sheep Receipts during 1929, hogs Receipts during 1929, horses and mules Total Value Value :Va!ue Value receipts during 1929 of Receipts during 1929, cattle of receipts during 1929, sheep of receipts during 1929, hogs of receipts during 1929, horses and .. $ 2,683,697.70 134,139 1,775,125 262,727 3,553 :: $ 4 mi lies t 'Vx' 2,175,544 100,604.25 177,512.50 52.545.40 1,776.50 $ 332,438.65 Total value of receipts during 1929 onvenience railroad market facilities, competition, Important factors in growth: Location, as distribution point, service and equipment- - x .1 y, f-jr - v AIRPLANE VIEW OF OGDEN UNION STOCK YARDS AND AMERICAN PACKING AND PROVISION COMPANY PLANT Packing Company Aid To Livestock Raisers -- W -- v s5 a nr vvrc4' v -- JX'Sy n. ft s J rVr? prices equal to the great packing centers of the middle west It. markets its products under the Mountain, Nectar and Sego Lily brands, and is rapidly pushing these names into the best stores of the intermountain country and the west. Each year shows a commanding increase in business with over $4,000,-00- 0 handled during the fiscal year from October 81, 1928, to October 81, 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 ' .- a- The payroll-ofthecompany runs over $300,000 a year, or approximate ly $1,000 a day, distributed among 200 employees. With its percentage of profit on each article sold, cut to a minimum volume, has become the crying need of the plant, and it is rapidly extendUtah,I' ing ite distribution throughout " point, for 8 hours each day, it would take 8 years and 6 months for (his By A. P. MILLER string of livestock to pass. One of the largest single factors in A recent departure in livestock the raising of cattle, sheep and hogs transportation has been the use of in the intermountain country, aside motor trucks. Each year more and from the natural forage and range more livestock are arriving at public conditions, has been the activities of Packing and Provision markets in trucks, rather than the American company, located in Ogden. months cars. For the eight freight This plant has been functioning for preceding March 1, 1930, there were many years ss part of the industrial mdre than 85,000 head of livestock section of Ogden, but it was not until listed aa drive-ireceipts at the .Og- three-year- s organizgef when den union stock yards. By far, the ed from the ashes of a past company, largest proportion of this . number that it began to take its place as a were brought here by trucks at the real assest to the community. n rate of an average of 29 truck loads real Since that timeif has been per day, livefactor in the encouraging of the To take care of this new business, stock industry, and its buyers workthere has just been completed at the ing on the markets of the Ogden uniyards a new truck-i- n division, con- on stock yards have been bidding -sisting of a modern barn, covering the of production than has formerly been 36 pens to accommodate the handling of these small lota of livestock. This the case. This trend in the livestock new division is a most recent addition business will, no doubt, continue to into the equipment at the yards, but fluence a growth in this market before the summer is over, twenty More and more each year buyers new cattle pens, which will make room for an additional 20 carloads of cattle, from concerns located in the east or will be erected and a $100,000 sheep along the Pacific coast are coming to house is now under construction. Ogden stockyards for a part of the The new sheep barn is a first unit of Uvestock they use. As a rein an authorized half million dollar supply of this tendency, there was an 81 sult to the improvement program yard More buildings and per cent increase in the sheep sales sheep division. be will as erected rap- at the Ogden union stockysrds during equipment just idly as the growth in receipts de- the year 1929, compared with 1928, mands. and there is every reason to believe There is a tendency prevalent in the that there will be a continued growth United States among the packers and in this market here during each sucmanufacture of meat products to ceeding year for several years to . buytheir livestock nearer the fields 'come. '4 C' I i 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 acclaimand push the Ogden livestock ahowV a step farther in prominence among similar events held elsewhere in this country. 'ihipu. r y v t: cash premiums to the winners in the various classes of cattle, sheep and swine recognized by this show. This money is proportionti out to more than 100 exhibitors, timing from all sections of the country west of the Mississippi river. Atithe. last show, held January 11th to lEth, 1930, there were nearly 1700 chore animals exhibited the value of vnich could conservatively be estimated at nearly ar cut the gorges and that gravity guides the efforts of any moving power. Nature first directed, and railroads have made Ogden the gateway of the 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 Stockgrowers Incorporated, ss may be seen by the volume of business which they do annually. It is helping to build Ogden as a livestock center and more important than anything else giving the livestock grower the greatest maximum returns. A- , SHOW Ogden Is Livestock Center of Region pioneers. All had learned that nature had full sway, and that the pioneers had pointed the way; that the rivers had i V S.'Tfi - Jt j ! ..i.r-y- f ' ll " tviVX y Thousands of head of livestock are 506,931 hogs; 10,850,85 sheep, and the ychily average during the period of 1,142,008 head. slaughtered each year in its packing 77,777 horses and mules a total reSince the yards were established, it plants, and more recently there has ceipts for all classes pf livestock of been a greater activity started along 14,846,099 head. A conservative es- has required 123,463 railroad cm to By L. F. WHITLOCK . the line of production and manufact- timate of the value of these animals haul the livestock that has arrived in Ogden is known as the livestock uring of dairy products. would amount to $106140,449 for cat- this manner from various points in center of the intermountain region. The Ogden union stock yards cov-e-r tle; $50,138,620 for igs; $108,501,-85- 0 the country to these yards. If these This reputation has been gained for sheep, and $3,888,850 for cars were lined up in one train, it through the various enterprises kin- acresan rea of approximately 75 30 acres of which are com- horses and mules or ( total value for would be 1029 miles in length. dred to the livestock business that has grown up here during the last ten or pletely covered with pens, barns, rail all livestock received puring the Could the total volume of livestock fifteen years among which are the road switches and other equipment period of $268, 770. j In- represented in the receipts at the OgOgden anion stock yards, the meat necessary for the handling of the don union stockyards since the? were There . baa been si consistent. of heads of packing establishment, feed yards, thewande and hogs. The union stockcattle, iheep, crease in the busing done at the opened for business April 1, 1917, be creameries and dairies. yards open- stockyards each succeeding year since placed in one continuous long, or sufed for business April l, 1917, and they were established! During 1929 ficient length to more than encircle Perhaps the most important condi- since thaU time there have been the total number of irteetock received the world, and moving at the rate of tion that has influenced the growth 1,411,206 head of cattle; 2,- - was 2,175,544 head, of Ogdens livestock industry is its asicoropared with 600 head per hour, by any given what is very important, the grinding location in almost a geographical cenbreaks the plant cell structure, per- ter of the greatest range area in this mitting easy digestive assimilation. country. With the exception of minThe grain is ground to the desired ing and some scenic and recreation aprize, and hay is uniformly chopped peal, our mountains are most used for FACTS AND TGURES and ground to the desired size; the the feeding of cattle and sheep, and The Ogden Live tock Show which desert areas cover the is the and largunifSrmly chopped ground hay 3 Established : Jarfrrary, 1920. and then mixed with the necessary est portion of this inland empire are Ijalue of livestock sold at last amount of molasses. The dust and little used other than for the grazNumber of exhibitions held to date, 11 ; $ 156,000.00 show auction sales ing of sheep. Consequently, the secawkwardness of hay U thereby .(One each year.) Pure-bre- d beef cattle, : Every mouthful of balanced tion of onthe country that surrounds Total Premiums offered at"iast Departments either side is typically a feed is as prescribed by the labora- Ogden d swine, livestock natpure-brefire-bre-d and is 120,000.00. it feedproducing area, cattle, dairy tory. Contrasting their preseht ural for Oprdento become important Number of states from which exhibits pire-bre- d fat fat fat cattle, sheep, ing methods with that of the old. It in the various sheep, activities related to was necessary to feed livestock from 20. ; gather, clubs, livestock feeder $nd girls and distribution. boys' cattle, production bgs, 135 to 160 pounds for a period of 90 Jotal number of animaH exhibto 120 days, as against their present Another thing that has influenced ppultry and Beeds. ited at the Eleventh show.. 1,700 method of 25 to 35 pounds of mixed the growth of this market and the imTotal Dates of next show: January 10 to 15, value of animals exhibitfeed for a peiiod of 40 to 70 days. portance of this city in the livestock ed, approximately inclusive. They feed livestock on the basis of program of this intermountain eoun $1,000,000.00 three pounds per each hundied pounds try is the fact that seven great rail should road which fatten ration lines FACTS AND IGURES here of each converge liveweight, the at the rate of two or three pounds them tapping a section rich in the Meat Packing Indistry in Ogden per head per day an increase tested production of livestock, and in turn, 1029 each cattle them of doubt. end 18,000 Smokehouse products (1929), out to slaughter, the proven beyond repeatedly radiating - pounds Tt is the itirn of the Stockgnrowers great consuming centers, either in the 8,080,000 1929 70,000 slaughter, hogs Incorporated to cooperate with the east or along the Pacify coast. 2,080,000 Sausage (1929), pounds the 1929 slaughter, sheep producers of livestock by giving 10,000 Employees It would be difficult to name an 208 shipper facilities whereby he can oh exact date for the birth of the liveLard tons 1,200 1939 payroll produced (1929), $310,500.09 tam an Ogden market which will feed stock industry In this Conditions city. and finish his livestock in its. yards favorable to that hav always FACTS AND FIGURES before going to the selling markets of been here since the coy settled, ii the eastern yards. The Ogden union end even before Livestock Feeding in Ogden were e09kurds stockyards is the logical selling place established, many jwovie were active 100 at feed Area acres If umber of livestock fed (1929), yards, far all Intermountain livestock sap- in th production and shipping of live, 1,000 cattle at.feed .......... Capacity and build yards, market Utah cattle to a 15,000 up , stock. pers But, no douh the thing that Capacity at feed yards, sheep in prepare their livestock for top prices has done more to gi Ogden an iden, , of eastern markets. 20,000 Ifamber of livestock fed (1929),open tity as a livestock eAtrr Is the union 125,000 sheep The facihties given by this com- stock yard, estal lished here in 1917, in feed at sheep Capacity, yards, pany will assist in making Ogden the Without the stockyards, there could sheds 30.000 $!xed feed consumed (1929), tons.. 24,350 logical selling point for all dassea of not hsve beenths same dejrpe of livestock grown in Montana, Oregon, growth in the market, and without FACTS AND Nevada, California, Idaho and western the market of greater scope than The Ogden linion, ! Wyomiifg. This company does not es- merely the supply of local demand for tablish a selling market or attempt livestock products, thers would not 1917 Established lo control prices. The best commis- have been the development in the live30 acres Area of pens andequipment sion firms in the country send repre stock operation at this point that has 200 cars Capacity, cattle ..ff. already taken place, no- - would a fusmtatives to Ogden when fat live- ture 250 cars growth, which is now so promis.:r.2.....:i shdfep Capacity, stock are ready for market. This also : 150 cars establishes Ogden as a cash market, ing, he likely. Capacity, hogs Besides the stockyards, Ogden is As the hoof of the animals first .; since cattle 1,411,206 1917, Receipts beat paths in the valley lands and the home of a large feeding industry :... 10,850,185 Receipts since 1917, sheep ....1 1 through the mountain passes; so did 2,506,931 Receipts since 1917, hogs.... the pioneers seek the easier way from 77,777 horses mules since and 1917, Receipts the east to the west and followed the ways already used, and when the engi..$ 14,846,099 Total receipts since 1917 neers of the great rsul highways surValue of receipts since 1917, cattle .$ 1,058,404.50 veyed for track bedding, they follow-e- d the paths of the animals and the Value of receipts since 1917, sheep ... 1,085,018.50 of the animals, bringing ter the feeder 2.' '.'S. PIac of the champion of the livestock kingdom. This show - was initiated for the purpose of promoting the production of better livestock in the intermountain eectioi and to prove the value of more scientific and feeding methods. There is little question but what both of these purposes have been accomplished to a large degree, and the benefit of this exhibition is best reflected in the better grade of beef, mutton and pork and the more productive dairy cattle that are being produced at the present time through- ri - s -- 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 that gather here for competition during six days in early Jan- out the surrounding territory. uary are the equal of the best found at similar exhibitions in any part of Approximately $20,000 is offered in iin A- - H tf . :tr.C sit S metin? i VSlW r. ?Vi M -5 ' irv A l - A-C- ' , ,5v t" si -- COLISEUM . .:; i jp 5- - .j ., ,xV L A. ' 4 k; I s - s -- tv, w XX I fii - ,; "WvA r Vi : T , . V A 4, i; r - vAh o.- - 4XT-- - ?' u ""--- . V 'i i' " -- n f lr M . V ' ! c.v '' f iiDWf ' vSZ39 ; vl vi v lx-.- '.- ? 'ki 1 ' A A A'- 1 i vx. p mjfwwijs ' if. yiv - t fGtfivn j -- urn" eastern Idaho, western Montana and this region, and are doing all in their Of every dollar power to promote this phase of the some of California. spent for expenses, it is estimated livestock industry. Each year tney that 86 per cent goes to the purchase have given a party for the school of the animals, leaving only 14 per boys of this territory who have been cent for the rest of the overhead. raising ton Utters. The prices paid The value of the packing industry by th buyers, representing the packto the intermountain country is con- ing company, have always been above tained in their policy of putting their the market, and have given added money back into their trade territory. impetus to the move among the comFor this reason, they strive to buy as ing farmers. many of the animals from this reTheir daily caoacity permits them gion as they can, and no farmer or handle 1500 hogs a day, but the rancher haa ever had to look further to local supply is far under this figthan Ogden for hia market with fair ure. prices assured him. They are also forced to do a cerPractically all of their buying is done through the Ogden union stock tain amount of feedng of cattle to as-well conditionyards and when this market fails sura a steady supply of ; them they go elsewhere, still keeping ed beef. Some within their trade territory. Producing 100 tons of cooking fat hogs are being shipped In from the j every month, 36 ton of sausages per middle west. week, and 30 tons of smoked meats To remedy this condition, they are per week, the company operates on urging the growing of hogs through an investment of over $1,600,000. m ... --,r:x.-19fwyyU' s -t r- K.vrV ) .... rji "V r, ' 1' t. r sf J v m : A8 K 7 r k ? A i - - mC s r iisfcm ir m WEBER COUNTY CALF CLUBS JDGDEN LIVESTOCK SHOW CHAMPIONS Last, year Ogdena poultry plants shipped 250,000 pounds of live poultry and 500,000 pounds of dressed birds. Killing, dresing, and packing are all done here. x - 7 ; 4 Ogdens "five hanks, according - to J1 statement, have resources of practically 28.000.000 with deposits of nearly $25,000,000. Employes total 138 xaith a yearly payroll of $347,000. Last year 134,455 head of cattle. 76,194 sheep and I hogs, 1,733,671 lambs 3,118 horses and mules were handled through Ogdens extensive Conservatively figured stockyards. 1929 1 v- .,1 jjgf , . K v i, - 4f I V I ;V y Y j- . Y Y it A - l -- 6 2. ; X I U t I r ? - y'V - 11 ? y t -f A - V A r V , XifV-i-i Y' if v, y Mi TYPICAL OF FAT LAMBS RECEIVED AT STOCK YARDS 4 V C v j W K - v $678,000. ' v this represents a total of $34,334,265.-0- 0 through the yards. Cars into the Ogden stockyards totaled 13,298 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. Employes in the eleven printing establishments total 153 with a payroll. of $347,899. These plant represent an approximate investment of " |