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Show liivestock: LSituStionJ A Home Market for Grain. Other pastures often look greener and more attractive than the home place, and this has been true among western grain producers, who, in the past few years, have ignored the building up of a great home market, in an endeavor to enter into the more spectacular, yet irregular, , foreign trade. There is no reason why all of the grain produced in the west should not be fed to livestock in the west. It is not economically sound to ship out grain and hay long distances and then import our meat animals from equally distant places. There is nothing no-thing that would do more to stimulate stimu-late grain prices on the Pacific coast than to build up a permanent market for' the grain through the livestock feeding route. Barley and wheat fed to hogs in 1930 realized more than one dollar a bushel. This is probably twice as much as the average grain producer realized for his crop in selling the grain instead of pork and beef. terest in pork production throughout the west than there is, and that is a matter which should occupy the minds of financial and business people, as well as agricultural interests. The hog market has been and continues to be the outstanding "white spot" in the whole agricultural set-up. Pork prices are relatively high in relation to grain quotations. Barley which has sold for 1.00 a hundredweight and even less, realized more than S2.00 a hundredweight when marketed in the form of pork. One of the great difficulties in expanding ex-panding our pork production on the coast, equal now to less than 25 per cent of our consumption, has been the unfavorable attitude of bankers and financial interests towards loaning money on hogs. While the writer does not in any sense mean to attempt to tell the banker his business, we firmly firm-ly believe that it would be a valuable contribution to our entire business atmosphere at-mosphere if the bankers would really study the opportunities for pork production pro-duction and encourage their farm patrons, particularly in grain growing grow-ing districts, to go into hog breeding and feeding. More Pigs in California. Official estimates indicate a 16 per cent increase in the number of sows bred for spring farrowing in California, as compared with spring of 1930. There has been a considerable consider-able increase in the San Joaquin valley val-ley and Southern California, both on small farms and on the large scale ranches, where pork production is carried car-ried on as a specialty. There should be a much greater in- |