Show the livestock situation BY LA mcnaughton McNAUGH TOM LOS ANGELES sept 21 leaders in ili tile cattle industry aro are concerned over the huge purchases of entile cattle being made ly by the federal government in III the drouth relief program undoubtedly the ran rank kand and file of the cattlemen over the country affected by tile drouth look upon the buying program as aa their salvation as millions of 0 cattle would have perished through lack of feed and water or would have lave been dumped on tho markets to sell at ai rull lous low prices at the samo same cattlemen who are arc in ili fairly good shape from standpoint of feed and water view tile program its as enuch to their advantage as aa relief buying lias has helped to prevent very low prices on oil tile marketable beef and the entire program la Is serving us its a moans means of reducing burdensome supplies on tile other hand buying is being carried on at such a tremendous paco pace that many in ili the industry fear that supplies will ho be reduced to such a point that beet beef prices in ili the next two or three years may go so high as to take beef out of roach reach of millions of consumers again should beet beef prices go too high thero la Is danger that there will be consumer demand for letting iowa down bars on Im imports porta tlona of beef from othor other countries all ready there la Is some talk of permitting importation of Alex mexican ican cattle to make replacements in ili U 8 areas where drouth lias has greatly rc reduced cattle population more afore than five million cattle had been purchased in the drouth program when this was written ono one cattle association official sees no great danger if the cattle buying la Is hold down to deute acute need lie ile points out that there were about a million lon less cuttle cattle on oil hand august this year it Is estimated that 1934 fall will exceed last years by four million head if that li Is anywhere near right light li ho points out this ihla country would have on oil land hand january in ill the neighborhood of sixty two million beet beef and dairy cattle lie ile does not feel that the cattlemen have bate anything to bo be alarmed about if wo we have more than 60 million head at that time ahne instead lie ho optimistically points out that the available supply will bo be somewhere near normal and the cattle industry glouid have several good years ahead another prominent cattlemen points out that chati the federal relief buying I 1 1 ying pr anh 11 it placed n good i jnnny d any dollars a directly I 1 atly t into tile the hands of cattlemen find and this should be helpful in ili establishing better business conditions or the funds might bo be used for replacements dext year thus ol opening lening up a market for brooding breeding stock that chat might otherwise ile be forced on the market we fire are going through unusual times and even the best thinkers must engage in some guess work cattlemen aro are naturally of an optimistic ti thill she frame f ranio of mind and frankly there seems to be less pessimism in tho the cattle country than was the case during tile the past three or four years |