Show the livestock situation IMM to 1111 following tho the start of new grass in the hills of california prices of stocker and feeder cattle havo advanced sharply ply illy as as per cwt cat for some clawes classes of cows ter er prices that were current two alq ago 1118 visa TISO LU price cannot at bo be wholly attributed to the rain since packer buyers hero here at the los loa angeles Anig cles union lock yards yarda have added from to per uiva to jo wilio home blames of cattle for UL laughter aughter purposes yet it la Is a met fact that the price of stock cattle often advance utter after winter whiter rains have cattlemen ot of at least a good start in now noNy feed feeL california ranchers ran chera who had not filled their needa it adi in stock cattle ll 11 by tho the first of the year oro are ta in a pro carious position fr if they lay jay 1 in I cattle now low they must do so at prices that tire higher thou thau has been the case for several years yearb while there la is ut way af ot foretelling uio future tho the fact li Is that should tho E war ad aud suddenly and tills this coul biry revert to a peace tillio tempo in business find and industry the cattle market might inight wen suffer buffer it a severe setback stock cows tire aro bringing 0 per cwt cat or better liero at it tile tho los angeles union stock yards stock istock bulla balls aro are moving at to so ajro oo and calves aro are selling to country buyers at around 0 to 1060 1050 per evat cwt in me caso case of t the first two classes cows and buu bulla tho the buyer bayer needs a spread in hi price over what ho he paid por per cwt cat for hla his cattle in order to make any money jn in an ordinary blawn cows on oil grass may bo be copat to input on around 1 i gain which will just about pay for uio the cost at lation and pasture turo in tho the case of calved under good conditions the geln will usually cost loss less than the price so that at the dmd of the season the calves will stand aland their owner loss less per cwt cat they org nally lually cost the voly high prices of block cattle the hie past fow bearis has hag influenced a good many california cattlemen catt leinen to change over from buying stocker battlo to maintaining a cow herd tho year around and their own calves another iother AT reason re ason for tills trend la Is the fact that it lg Is usually easier to ralso raise hie 1110 best beat quality iu allty cattle than it Is ia to buy them while there has haa been a la in the flit iu allty of cattle in the west there la still gienty of room for more lm hit provement pro in tho the majority of herds A k blat to almoas any cattle such as a central market will drive irh o homo hoino tile the fact that there are very few hords horda that stand ionio improvement our 0 u r stock follows and our system of grading land selli selling tig at tho the central markets ire are doing a groat great doal dial to educato educate cattlemen and enco encourage thein to luy buy bettor better herd sires sirca and cull their vow cow herds more inore closely those who he liao have dono done tills this have been moro more than regald financially by obtaining more pounds of beef from their ranch fi receiving a higher price ilar pound for it and la du addition linio have the faction of kno knowing that bat their cattle will compare favorably with any price of owner phlp hip la is ono one of iio tich rich cowards of tho castlo ane |