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Show gyM'NAUCHTOwXfo - f Mow prices. It could hardly seem j otherwise than to figure that such ! heavy marketing of both male and ! female calves will result in a short- age of beef before another six months goes by. Interest in hog production contin-! contin-! ues active in California and each week sees new breeders in the business. busi-ness. These peopte are for the most part dairymen and smaller farmers, ' who see the need for diversification. They are buying breeding stock at low prices and no doubt will be in a position to capitalize on the advance that is certain to come about, when the pigs are ready for market. There is greater optimism in sheep circles as lambs have apparently reached bottom price levels and the J price trend has shown improvement during recent weeks. November 9th to 14th is National Wool week, during which time every interest in the sheep and wool industry in-dustry is making efforts to encourage the use of wool. Department stores throughout the country are featuring woolen goods during this week as a result of a comprehensive campaign laid out by the various wool trade organizations and sheepmen's organizations. organ-izations. Another great campaign is being waged by wool interests to encourage making this a "wool Christmas," suggesting sug-gesting that practical Christmas gifts of woolen articles be given. The gradual, upward, swing which has started ..hi commodity .values has not affected livestock markets as yet, but there is a feeling. of .greater confidence con-fidence in livestock circles. With grain prices showing,, a substantial advance during recent .weeks, there will be less : disposition to feed grain to livestock and., this, coupled with forced .selling in most parts of the country, may create a shortage of cattle, hogs and sheep. Packers are giving serious thought to such a probability pro-bability and there appears to be a j genuine desire on the part of the trade to bring about some upward revision re-vision in livestock prices. Marketing of southwestern calves is the heaviest this fall in a long time and, due to several causes, most of these calves are going into immediate im-mediate retail channels with a very bad effect on values. Range cattlemen cattle-men are forced to sell calves on the market in order to realize cash and difficulty in financing feeder purchases pur-chases prevent feedlot operators from taking full advantage of i the |