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Show 7Livestoclcl Ap.A.M'NAUGHlljalfa 1 j The hop; and corn regulation under the agricultural recovery act is ap- pnrently set for October 1st. In the meantime, meetings are to be held at the different centers of production I and processing for a discussion of details de-tails and harmonizing any differences that may arise. The effective date tunes in well with the beginning of the heavy fall movement of hogs, and all hands are anxiously awaiting further particulars. particu-lars. There never was a time when the people were more willing to get behind our government and why not? We must recognize we are engaged en-gaged in warfare against the most formidable antagonist the country has ever met. The goal of the industrial act is to help put back to work more than fifteen fif-teen million willing and able men so ihey may resume their places as wage earners and distributors of their income in-come through our trade channels, who after all are the backbone of the nation. The goal of the agricultural recovery re-covery act is to so readjust commodity com-modity prices as to enable the farmer to sell his wares at a price that will enable him to again become a buyer of things that others produce. Surely these objectives are worthwhile worth-while and it is well to keep in mind that wnenever the mechanism is set up to put these two new laws into operation, we become an integral part, and cooperate we must willingly or otherwise. The industrial act will apparently ap-parently be applied so as to enable industries in-dustries to maintain a reasonable j schedule of prices, in order that they ! may be in a position to pay a fair I wage scale and to earn something on their investment, but we should keep j in mind that we are dealing with ne-' ne-' cessities, and the mental attitude of the people is decidedly against any attempt at profiteering or charging unreasonable prices upon these necessities neces-sities embraced within the schedule. One of the important things that will likely work out of the hog-corn I regulation, as well as the agricultural recovery act, is the grading and marking of meat, "so that he who buys may know," and that should be so, from the carcass on the rail at the packing plant to the cut on the block of the retailer. The housewife and the public generally need to know more about what they are getting for their money. Some time ago one of the big chain stores made a house-to-house canvass in several localities to find out how i much the housewife knew about the : kind of beef she was getting. Most of the people claimed they bought : nothing but prime, choice cuts. Some J j admitted purchasing good quality. At j j the same time a survey of the cattle j i slaughtered in the various sections j showed a very small per cent of cat- j j tie grading prime and choice on the ( hoof. Certainly not enough to supply j all those who claimed to have bought j prime and choice cuts, and the bulk of ' the cattle were graded common to ' good. As a matter of fact the per- j centage of prime and choice cattle on ' i any market is comparatively a small ; I part of the total supply. j Many attempts have been made to establish a system of grading and marking locally but apparently it requires re-quires federal initiative and author- ity, which we now have, to bring it j about. IF Western livestock growers are pretty pret-ty much concerned over the drouth conditions of the middle west, based upon the fact that our local market is influenced by the middle western market. The chances are that there j may be a pretty heavy liquidation of immature stuff due to a shortage of feed. Just what the practical enect will be remains to be seen. j From the information we have, cattle cat-tle supplies in the middle west are fairly heavy. About the only thing that can be said at this time is to , market your livestock when it is j ready. j |