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Show ffc'ffi Livestock fied further because of demands by eastern order buyers to partly offset the shortage of beef in the middle west. This situation has brought about a highly compet'tive demand for cattle at Los Angeles with the result re-sult that on the better grades of beef cattle there has been no slump in values despite the fact that numbers of cattle in California are the largest in a good many years. The open, public market for livestock live-stock has proven a boon to the California Cali-fornia cattleman. Even during the period of depression, the cattleman remembers that he always had a spot cash market for his livestock on the open market. Now that times are im-proving im-proving and buying power is on the uptrend, the improved situation is re-j fleeted in the sharply higher prices being paid for cattle as against a year ago. A Californ'a cattleman who had just sold his steers at the Los Angeles An-geles union stock yards to order buyers buy-ers for shipment to the middle west was amazed to read on the dinner menu at his Los Angeles hotel that evening: "We serve eastern beef ex-clusivly." ex-clusivly." It seems paradoxical that on the one hand m'ddle western buyers, buy-ers, because of shortage of good beef in that territory, are buying thousands thous-ands of California cattle, while on the other hand, certain eating places on the Pacific coast st 11 feel that they must go to some other section in order to obtain choice beef. It is not difficult to visual'ze that this so-called so-called eastern beef is a cut from a California steer. Due to improved feeding and breeding breed-ing practices, the western cattleman today !s producing beef of quality equally as good as any other part of , the country. Because of the abundance abun-dance of good feed in California this season against the shortage of feed in the middle west caused by the 1934 drouth, California beef cattle are now in demand in the very center of the Corn Belt. It was not so many years ago that the western cattleman always had to market most of h's cattle to middle western buyers. However, then it was not the case of the California cattle being of better finish but because there was not sufficient consuming volume on the Pacif 'c coast to absorb more than a small proportion of the I beef produced. In those days, there were no central cen-tral markets in California and the cattleman was in the position of wait-i wait-i ing for a buyer to come along and make h'm an offer. Today, that situation situa-tion is vastly changed. With the development de-velopment of great urban population on the Pacific coast, great slaughtering slaughter-ing and packing centers have been developed, de-veloped, and the cattleman never has to look for a cash market for his stock. He can always ship to a pubic stockyard where he is certain to get the full value of his livestock as determined de-termined by competitive bidding on the open market. Added to the broad demand existing exist-ing from local packers, the central market at Los Angeles is now forti- |