Show j- j t f r Situation 4 L Isis Angeles May The 26 The l distri- distri trl button of If stock livestock production has conic como In for serious ollain ol of f late lain years yearn it being recognized 1 1 by y the I I agricultural producer r that hi his was wan lt the only Industry that Hint wasn't nt taking r cognizance of th the the- importance of If gauging supply ply and distribution to toas toi i as II nully as 1111 possible te equal the demauri de tle- mand mauri It t I Is i a fact flirt that the bulk of or the ills ill of agriculture in general and stock livestock production In particular can lIn bo be traced to overproduction during Ce certain main periods and under production at hI other othI times resulting generally in I th tho producer having nn an oversupply when alien prices mire lire unfavorable and havir hav hay ir Ing nothing to tu market when prices price are in a n stronger er position 1 It is ill evident in the cattle hulu industry try that the situation has IMS never been more moll favorable fa to n readjustment of production pro pro- 10 than at this thi time Present pries prices are ale fairly satisfactory mid and the till supply of cattle caUl in the country is I short us as a 1 result of or the period of depression de dos pt pl lon following Vin the War IVar causing depletion of breeding herds An tingle angle to cattle rattle production which has hall not received the consideration it d deserves ser ell is the tho distribution distillation of ot season season- id III production in different producing sections I This has J. J Leer been followed out outmost outmost most moat successful slIce in the sheep industry try tr du and the sonic same principle would apply to initializing the cattle supply throughout the year year It can be recalled when the lambing season in ill the sheep Industry throughout through through- out t the country was in the spring with the result insult that the rummer and fall movement of or lambs assumed the proportions of ot a 1 glut and the only other alternative was va to carry the lambs over HUT r until the He following winter 01 of spring The fhe sheep heep industry however how how- ever er has readjusted itself in a II seas sea zonal WIlY way no so that lamb Iamb production is well spread out throughout the year jear ar I California lambing is accomplished in the fall and the lambs move to market early catly in the spring followed i by Kentucky rind and other southern lambs lamb and ami the summer and ancl fall full demand is ill taken care of nf with lambs from the ranges This represents an orderly elderly production and marketing of the lamb crop If this same procedure were vere applied ap up- plied I to the thc beef cattle Indu industry try nn an equal distribution throughout hout th the year would be he accomplished It is isnow isnow now the custom to have the calf crop rup cropin rupIn I in the Spring If this were readjusted readjust readjust- I ed iii so that In n the South and Pacific Coast regions legions the calf lilt crop could belad be be- lad had in the fall during dining the winter months th the production could fluid be bl had front from the Middle West and in n the spring from the northern ranges this would spread the thc calf crop throughout through through- out the year and would result in equalizing the supply with the do dl- mund viand The Th trend in the demand nd for fur beef rattle cattle now is toward lighter and youn younger lounger er animals l so it is no longer practical for the producer r to hold hoM his beef cattle over o a II long period and thus hus adjust the supply to the demand However with the proper distribution don tion of the calf crop the younger finished animals could move to market market mar mar- ket in an or orderly erly WU way throughout the year somewhat along the same IRme lines which Lave have been proven prO so satisfactory tory ory in the p i industry |