Show the livestock situation by J A Me Naughton liton I 1 I 1 M I 1 wonder if we recognize the shifting of meat food supplies from the big ranches which aisted LI a few years ago agg and which fire are being sub divided into smaller farm units so eo that we are more and more dependent upon the small rancher tor for our livestock supplies with we the great influx of population this sub dividing Is bound to be more evi dent in the future t it looks like we have leave plenty of lancto land to go around out of the more than million acres in the state of california less than 10 per cent Is under intensive cultivation mostly irrigated the western states are gradually following along the lines of middle western farmers who nilo have a few head of cattle a couple of milk cofty a few bogs a few sheep and some poultry thus they are in an independent positional position at least earning a livelihood their grain and forage are marketed through livestock t k fa iu lew of this changing condition it la Is highly important that ways and means be established for getting small numbers of livestock to market in III certain sections shipping organizations have been formed headed by a representative of the extension service or farm bureau making kno known wn to ranchers the shipping days where each ono one brings I 1 in III his livestock astock to a known place to be marked for identification and consolidated into or carloads thus obtaining the cheaper transportation cost and the best possible chance for price at the ultimate market shipments are consigned sogn ed to a bonded commission firm at the los angeles union stock yards where tile the liv livestock estock Is sorted and sold under tinder competitive conditions on each shipper being charged his proportionate part of the cost of transportation and marketing thus the owner of a few head of livestock gets the benefit of the market price at the same time it must be recognized that when the large volume of livestock marketed by the small operators Is sold at al full market value the entire mark et is established thus protecting the price structure for the good of all producers it frequently happens that from organized sections we have had 6 as many as 40 different owners omers in two tivo carloads out farm aus are becoming interested tit in this plan recognizing that ll it costs the small rancher too much to ship to the ul dimate market hence he Is s subject to the itinerant buyer nud aud to sales tit at concentration concentta con centra alon points it Ss is not infrequent that thai purchases made nt at buell buch c concentration points find their way to the central market but I 1 am lit in favoron favor favo 0 providing facilities by which the shipper can reach the market economically affording an optional plan aad the best opportunity for the high dollar |