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Show LIVESTOCK NOTES Los Angeles, December 1, 1935 No increase in the number of cattle and calves in 193G is foreseen by the United States department de-partment of agriculture, and the same authority estimates a decrease de-crease in the number of cattle and calves to be marketed next year. However, department statisticians look forward to a considerable improvement im-provement in the quality of beef to be marketed next year and it is probable that average weights will be heavier than in 1935 due to the relatively large feed supplies sup-plies in comparison to smaller number of cattle. However, there is likelihood of a gradual expansion in the number of cattle in the United States, with most of the increase in the western west-ern states that were badly hit by the 1934 drouth. Again, the government gov-ernment program of reduced cultivated acreage and larger acreages devoted to pasture may increase numbers of breeding cattle cat-tle in many sections, notably the cotton growing states and corn belt. Whether or not government crop control methods will carry the cattle breeding center eastward east-ward and southward remains to be seen. There are many who see a gradual shift in cattle production produc-tion towards the cotton and grain lands of the middle west but there is also a very decided trend towards the development of livestock live-stock feeding in the western j range states. The trend is very decided this year in all of the western states. Hundreds of cattle cat-tle and sheep growers are planning plan-ning to fatten at home on grain and concentrates their range produced pro-duced animals, instead of shipping so-called stockers and feeders to the large corn producing centers. |