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Show , :-LivestoclCj cg&oH : -r first six months of 1932, Los Angeles packers slaughtered 250,000 cattle and calves, 508,000 hogs and 522,000 sheep and lambs, a grand total of 1,280,000 head, a big gain over any previous year, representing almost double the slaughter of ten years ago. Marketing of California's grass crop of cattle and lambs is now near the end for this season, and Southern i California packers are now looking towards the great Intermountain country, lying between the Rocky mountains and the Sierra mountains, for their supplies of beef and lamb; during the next few months. Due to above normal feed conditions in most parts of the California range country, California cattlemen were able to spread out the marketing of grass-fat cattle over a longer period than was the case in many previous years. Another development which has helped California cowmen to stretch out their marketing season has been the general use of concentrated feeds with which to supplement pasture and grass. This has been very helpful in preventing overly burdensome supplies sup-plies of grass beef during June and July, with the result that the market this summer was fairly stable, with a general strengthening of values. Intermountain cattle and lambs are expected to be of good quality this season, as a result of very satisfactory satisfac-tory feed and water conditions. The movement of fat lambs out of Idaho and Utah is already well under way, while the grass cattle should be moving mov-ing to market during the latter part of August, with the heaviest volume of marketing in September, October and November. Due to the comparative compara-tive shortage of cattle in California this season, in the face of a very healthy demand for meat, the Los Angeles An-geles market has proven very attractive attrac-tive to out of state cattlemen. At the present time, prices being paid at the Los Angeles Union Stock yards on grass cattle and short-fed material are relatively higher than at Missouri River markets. The same condition is true of lambs. As a result, it is expected that a larger than usual proportion of the Intermountain cattle and lambs will move westward to California markets, rather than eastward to the Missouri River markets. In spite of depressed business conditions, con-ditions, the Southern California demand de-mand for meats has been greater during dur-ing this year than during any other previous period in history. During the |