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Show Los Angeles, Septi'mlxT 2't, l'.Ci;! Livestock producers are concerned over failure of market prices to show any appreciation in tho face of advances ad-vances which have taken place in many of the commodities they must buy. They feel that increased costs in processing and distributing meats have caused som0 advance in retail meat prices, but any gains made bv the processors have not as yet been reflected back to the growers, although al-though the processors code emphasizes empha-sizes th desire and intention to share with the growers the benefit to be j derived under the new order of I things. Maybe it is a little early to i expect results iYoni that source but I the livestock growers are certainly ; getting restless over the heavy load they are carrying and are eagerly looking in every direction for a very much needed and highly necessary re- Lief. The general average of cattle, Marnb and hog prices today is little different than two or three months ago. Both hog and cattle prices are lower than a year ago. There is a growing impression among stockmen that the only answer to better livestock prices will come when packers discontinue their practice of using direct purchases of livestock in the country as a means of holding down values on certain markets. Several producer organizations organiza-tions have urged that the packers' code, now being considered by the secretary of agriculture, either prohibit pro-hibit country buying or else place country buying on the same basis as stock yards buying. They insist that packers be forced to report their daily purchases of livestock nt country points, making this detailed information public just as is done in the case of purchases of livestock on central markets. It is difficult to see how such reports re-ports could be very accurate. Weighing Weigh-ing and sorting conditions are vastly different, favoring the buyer in the country. All stock is weighed on exactly ex-actly the same basis at public markets, mar-kets, under strict government supervision. super-vision. It Ls manifestly impossible1 for the government to hire an army of men to similarly supervise trading at a thousand and one country points. The samo producer organizations argue that the actual costs to the packers of sending buyers in the country is a huge cost that must finally fi-nally be born by the producers. For example, it is an actual fact that the cost to the packer of buying cattle in Uhe country is approximately ten times as great as buying in central markets. There could be only one reason why packers would prefer to I buy in the country when the excess- ive" difference in buying costs is admitted ad-mitted that being a double measure to buy bargains in the country, and to be enabled to use country purchases pur-chases to depress open market values. Whatever is finally worked out in the processor codes, it is a real move to work out economies in the packing industry and to bring about more satisfactory and profitable conditions to the producer. The country mut have faith in the integrity and ability of the secretary of agriculture to give his final approval to a code tlvtt will be for the best interests of all. n w are used on the bottom and the grey paint on the ship's sides. About five West Indian hurricanes occur each year. They are more likely to occur during Augu-st, September and October than in other months. The weight of a ships anchor in pounds is approximately the same as the displacement of the ship in tons. For example: a ten thousand ton ship will use an anchor weighing about ten thousand pounds. When the president of the United States is regularly embarked on board a ship of the navy, but is absent ab-sent therefrom at night with the intention in-tention of returning within twenty-four twenty-four hours, his absence is indicated by eight vertical white lights displayed display-ed at the peak. The bureau of fisheries has made a study of the problem of barnacles and finds that American shipping owners, including Uncle Sam, pay-dearly pay-dearly for the tons of barnacles thi-t attach themselves to vessel bottoms. A ship at sea from six to eight months accumulates a growth of from two to three inches, weighing from fifty to one hundred tons. The results are loss of sjx'ed, additional fuel consumption, delayed voyages, undue wear of machinery and dry-dock dry-dock inactivity. |