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Show aTm'naiightI. " the demand for beef than production, of high quality animals, and nothing will do more towards stabilising western agriculture than more attention at-tention to diversified agriculture, in which livestock production and feeding feed-ing is an important part. Lamb More Popular. Lamb is constantly becoming more popular as a meat food, largely because be-cause prices are the lowest in many years. Leading authorities feel that, with increased production of lambs, it can hardly be said that the sheep market is in a slump, but rather in a period of re-adjustment. The day of extremely high-priced i fat lambs is probably gone for all time and growers must re-adjust their business to changed conditions. "It looks to me as though growers must adjust themselves to raising 5 to 7 cent lambs," says one notable authority, au-thority, "but these low lamb prices are the best advertisements that the lamb industry ever has had. More and more people have learned to eat and enjoy lamb because prices are within their reach. It will be a long t'me before lamb will again be considered con-sidered a luxury, but it is reassuring to the sheepmen that lamb is being more and more considered as a staple and economical portion of the daily diet." Lamb consumption has shown tre-nendous tre-nendous gains on the Pacific, Coast. In Los Angeles county, the 1930 lamb slaughter was around 900,000 head, an increase of more than 22 per cent over the previous year, which was the largest "kill" on record in Los Angeles county previously. I Quality Will Count. The beef cattle business is changing chang-ing on the Pacific Coast and the demands, de-mands, in that meat distributors, in answer to public demand, are constantly con-stantly requiring better quality products. pro-ducts. The critter of nondescript breeding probably can't be raised profitably in the future. That California Calif-ornia and Arizona cattlemen recognize recog-nize this situation, is reflected in the active demand for choicely bred beef bulls, a demand which was so outstanding out-standing at the recent Los Angeles livestock show that it attracted national na-tional attention among the cattle fraternity. Along with good breeding breed-ing must come feedlot finishing, calling call-ing for the utilization of the west's enormous grain and hay crops in beef production. Nothing will do more to stimulate |