Show the livestock situation ilog hog prices reached the highest higi iest levels since 1929 1920 on oil the los augu alige ira market during the last few days choice grain fed fea hogs hoga from Cali california furnia food feed lots lota sold at 13 00 to 1333 1335 a cat cwt the sharp adva advance ilce lit in hug hog prices Is due to nation wide shortage of hogs caused mainly by tareo years of drouth lu lit most of tin the grain producing areas and tit the resultant shortage of feed feedstuffs stuffs that it may be a matter of years until the U a hog population Is brought hack back to normal Is indicated by government crop reports which site a 73 per cent smaller spring crop than in ili 1030 wid and indications of a reduction of 34 per rent lit in the 1037 fall farrowing furrowing far rowing as compared with tile the fall of 1030 1930 tile number of hogs over six months of age in ili the united states ij 1 estimated at four per cent smaller sili aller on june as compared with a year ago it is regarded as certain that if tile thy middle western farmers have a satisfactory corn crp crop this season the number of hogs available for full fall and winter markets may be relatively lat Ively sni smaller aller than last year ns thero Is expected to be ba a tendency to hold back a large proportion of young sows bows for breeding purposes there Is now a tremendous demand for good quality well well bred foundation stock with I 1 which to rebuild U S swine herds here ikeie in the western country there is a great interest in ili pork production on it 11 permanent basis with steady increase in population on oil the pacific coast demand for foi all meat ineat food products is on the increase certainly there Is a chice fui for it 1 will well rounded develop lev elop anent of pork production to at least partly care for foi the growing delli demands of the west carst colsum ers n s fortunately poi innately for foi the far west nil producer pio ducer irrigated permanent pastures pus tules provide a permanent source of cheap log hog feed along alon w with I 1 t it kllc various arlous concentrates available numerous Nume ious tests show unit that in ili most cases a pound of pork boik inay be produced front four pounds of grain or its equivalent hut but actual costs of may bo be reduced by the use of products that might bo be wasted this heading comes cull faults southern Sou thein california hog feeders me are utilizing cull oranges table scraps cull beaus beans and n lid so ho on with a continuance of relatively high hog prices considered likely pork production should prove profitable to those who me are properly pio perly equipped 4 to handle and feed hog hogs a |