Show the livestock situation situate Si by L 1 ft A mcnaughton Mc los loa angeles Angeloa livestock producers tiro are concerned over failure of market prices to show allow any ap pr in III the taco face of advances which havo have taken place in many of tile co III modi ties they must buy they fool feel that increased costs costa in processing and distributing meats have some nd in rn re tall meat ineat prices hut but any gains made by tile the processors havo not as aa yot yet boen been reflected back to tho the growers although tile processors codo code tho the desire and in to share with tho the growers the lie benefit to bo be derived under tile alio new order of of things lings ti maybe it la Is a 1 little early to expect results front from that source but tile the livestock growers are certainly getting restless over tho the heavy load they are carrying and are eagerly looking in avory direction for very much needed and lil highly gilly necessary relief the general average of cattle labib and hog prices thlin Is little different than alinn two or throe three months ngo iloth hog and cattle prices aro are lawor than a year ago there la Is a growing impression among stockmen stoc kmen that the only answer to better livestock prices will como come whon when packers discontinue their practice tica of using direct purchases of livestock in tile the county as it means of holding down values on oil contral central markets inar liets several producer organizations have III urged ged that the puckers packers code now being considered by the secretary of ag ae ri culture either prohibit country buying or elea eige place country buying on oil tho same basis na as stock amoel yards buying they insist that packers be forced to report their dally of livestock at country points making this detailed information public just as Is lone dolle in it tile tho case of purchases of livestock on central markets it Is difficult to seo how site such reports could be very accurate weighing and sorting conditions aro are vastly different favoring tho the buyer in the country all stock la Is weighed on oil exactly tile same basis at public markets under strict government supervision it Is biant costly impossible for the government to hire an army of men to similarly supervise trading ding at a thon thousand sand and one country points |