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Show ORDERLY MARKETING OF CATTLE ADVISED Los Angeles, May 17. While it does not appear that supplies of beef cattle in the Western country are as large as normal, a check-up of cattle that are to be available for market during the next 30 to 60, days reveals that unless they are marketed in an orderly manner, there is a serious possibility of unwarranted price deflation. de-flation. It is highly essential that cattlemen have the opportunity to top out their fat cattle as they are ready to go, and have the privilege of holding back half-fat stock until later in the season. 1 There is a measure of responsibility responsibil-ity that must not be ignored by those who are financing cattle growers. Of all agricultural interests, the cattlemen cattle-men on the whole are in the most solvent position and it is good business busi-ness to keep them that way. But the very fact that cattle may be converted convert-ed into cash at any time may cause unwarranted pressure to force stock to market thus causing a breaking down of the price structure, which has been very favorable in relation to other commodities, up to the present. pre-sent. It is to be hoped that the comparatively compara-tively light supplies of grass cattle in California and Arizona may be permitted per-mitted to move to market in an orderly or-derly fashion, and that some means be worked out to finance owners who wish to supplement range feed and thus extend their marketing season over a period of several months, instead in-stead of during only June, July and August. In such times as we are now passing pass-ing through, the price structure is very delicate and could easily be broken down under pressure of forced forc-ed marketing. Up until the present time, the Los Angeles market has been the highest in the country, due both to the fact that supplies of available cattle have been smaller than usual, mainly because interests at the stock yards have been able to assist in maintaining an orderly flow of stock into beef channels. There is no apparent desire on the part of meat distributors in the Los Angeles area to break down the present values valu-es of livestock. On the other hand, there is a concerted effort on the part of many of the larger meat distributors distribu-tors to maintain values and this campaign cam-paign is being carried on with good effect. The whole matter of maintaining cattle values (rests almost entirely with the manner in which livestock is marketed. Orderly marketing should result in values being fairly well maintained during the seasonal movement move-ment of grass fat cattle; forced marketing mar-keting would tend to break down values val-ues and bring about a period of very short supplies in the late summer and fall. |