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Show HQG KB URGED 10 SIOP IMPORTS IN BfiOUHTAIM REGION Price of grain such that hogs are again profitable. Many getting back into pig raising The Deseret News of last week contained con-tained an article that since January 1, 1922, approximately 40,000 heat of hogs had been IMPORTED into Utah, raised in other states, to be fattened on our surplus food stuff. The article goes on to state that these shipments came in from as far as North Platte, Brady Island, Nebraska; Ne-braska; and Pueblo, Colo. In tho past few years, wheat soared owine to war 'needs, and the hog industry was neglected; but today it is beginning begin-ning to come back, and the Salt Lake Commercial Club, tho Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural Board, and the Bankers, are urging the farmers to again give this stable industry their attention. At the present time Salt Lake City Packing Plants are paying $1 a hundred hun-dred more than is being offered at the Omaha market for pigs, says Jno. P. Gorman, head buyer for the Salt Lake Branch of the Cudahy Packing Co. Our local far-seeing farmers aro beginning to get a start again in hogs and dairy cows; and within the rext two years, the strongest and best money makers of our farmers will again be fully active in these two kindred businesses. |