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Show i The Livestock Situation About 111 percent of the beef cattle of the United States is produced under un-der what are known is "range conditions," con-ditions," una tbo estimated total of range cattle January 1st at 18,170,-000 18,170,-000 represents a decrease of around v a lialf million head as compared with three years ago. Texas lias the Urg-est Urg-est number of range cattle of any state in the Union, while California is second with u total of npproximnte-ly npproximnte-ly 1 ,:i!:t,00l lu'iul. Next comes western west-ern Nebraska, then Colorado, then New Mexico and Montana, we.-tern Kan.-as, Wyoming, western Oklahoma, Okla-homa, western South Dakota ami Arizona in order. California is the only state showing an increase In numbers of range cattlo during recent re-cent years, this being due largely to the great increase in population and the resulting broad demand for meat foods. Arizona's cattle population has decline,! from !M,0)() In V.W t" ill 1,000 in l'.ii;s, lue in large measure to M'wral years of ilroutli. Many orchardists are planning to handle sheep in their groves. Thi., has been done successfully in the citrus cit-rus districts of California und Arizona Ari-zona and lias also been very successful success-ful in deciduous fruit localities. The carrying out of such a plan not only i promises good results to the fruit growers but It provides a more economical eco-nomical distribution of the surplus of Western lambs ua compared with shipping tlii-rn to K'-nsl'-l n market i. Sheep fi-rdiiur l.:il.ly repre; ellls I 111 most available f. em of live Mock handling for the man v. ho in not experienced ex-perienced in f -i 1 i 1 1 if live rloi-li. The investment is lc. s til Hie outset, fecd-1 fecd-1 ii jr costs are lower, and lambs are moro easily handled than must forms of live stock. The orchnrdint should give thought to buying his breeding or feeding si "fie from districts whore the shoe) do not have too much access ac-cess to browse feeds as they arc then loss likely to damaj'o trees. It is not good business to attempt to handle too many sheep or lambs in tho, groves, but rather to bold down the number of animals according lo the amount of pasture and other feeds available. In this way, the choicest product may be produced at the least expense. The writer will be glad to answer epicstions on this subject, or readers may always go to their state agricultural college or farm advisor for reliable information. I'lans are now virtually complete for the fourth annual Christmas Live Stock Show, to be held November :10th to December 7th at the Los-Angeles Los-Angeles Union Stock Yards. This affair has developed into one of the I major national live stock expositions and exhibits of b'-eeding rattle, hogs and sheep, as well as prime fat stock, :. 'rady are promised from the majority ma-jority of the we.-tern states. It j'ive the stockmen of Hi" we fro country ! a sp!' I'.uid opportunity to learn tii-j bite: t Methods of live rtooU f ling, ! and also presents a valuable oppor-' . t n n it y to avail them solve ; of the new j , bio jd lines and mo t val'iah'e t p -s o!" breeding stock. While it is primarily J a producers' show, it is al valuable in building up interest of the city residents in what is being done towards to-wards improved live stock production to the end that better i: :ality meats may be offeicd in the retail market. There seems to be a general tendency tend-ency all over the com t-y towards rebuilding re-building the breeding herds of cattle, now that prices have reached levels permitting profitable production. A splendid sign of the times is the greatly increased demand for pure bred beef bulls, both in range districts dis-tricts and on farms. o |