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Show nnvestoclO ksstaSit u at ioflu J Qanjmton . r Los Angeles, California, June 22, 193G Sometimes I am convinced that people in other lines of business busi-ness do not realize the magnitude of the livestock industry. Of course, that is natural, as so many lines of work are so far removed from agriculture and animal hus-i hus-i bandry. In California alone over three hundred million dollars is represented repre-sented by the industry. The farm value of livestock and the hay crops fed have a value of over one hundred million dollars and the finished product from livestock dairying after processing makes up the balance of the three hun- c dred million. At this time it takes a million cattle, two and a quarter million sheep and lambs and one and a half million hogs to supply the requirements re-quirements of California meat packers. These animals are drawn from some eighteen states as, due to the rapid increase in population in California, livestock production has not been able to keep pace with the consumer demand. It has not been many years since California was an exporting livestock live-stock state. At this time California Califor-nia imports meat food animals the year around with the exception of lambs when the importation is seasonal. At this writing the Los Angeles market is the highest beef cattle market in the country for fed cattle. cat-tle. These price levels are likely to draw fed cattle from distant points as shipments follow the prices. It is likely that a large number of cattle will be fed out by owners this season rather than being sold as stockers and feeders. There is quite a trend toward western feed lot development and the time may not be far distant when eastern packing centers are looking to western feed lots for fat cattle, rather than middle western feeders taking western cattle as stockers and feeders and finishing them for eastern markets. A contributing factor to this has been the trend toward better breeding breed-ing in the western range states and the range cattlemen turning to quality rather than quantity. Cattle may be finish fed in the west as efficiently and economically economic-ally as anywhere in the country and it looks like range cattlemen are going to follow through to a large extent and finish feed their own cattle. telligence, wisdom, being, immortality, immor-tality, cause, and effect belong to God. These are His attributes the eternal manifestations of the infinite divine Principal, Love." (p. 275). |