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Show ipDvestocle A. L03 Angeles Union Stock Yards, February 27 What are we gointj to do with the thousands of young men who are being turned out of our educational institutions every year? With the millions of unemployed unem-ployed (skilled and unskilled) most of whom are family heads unable to find gainful employment and forced to take dole for a mere existence, ex-istence, what chance have the young men coming out of our educational edu-cational institutions to find gainful gain-ful and honorable employment. Our industrial situation offers little encouragement and we cannot can-not hope to absorbe the millions of unemployed. In this particular hection we find that many fields, trees and vine crops are not being harvested because they -won't pay the cost of harvesting. Such conditions, con-ditions, to say nothing of the loss of food for our people, are tremendously tre-mendously discouraging and financially finan-cially ruinous. Agriculture and livestock have the greatest appeal and offer the best opportunity for these young men, especially those ' who have specialized in agriculture and animal ani-mal husbandry which alone amounts to several 'thousands per year turned out of our educational institutions in the state of California. Cali-fornia. Agriculture and livestock represent not only the greatest, bu,t most important industry. Successful Suc-cessful agriculture has always de- ! penned upon livestock to consume the waste and market the crops, and as a source of cash income, i Setting aside the controversial question of whether we have an ; over-supply or under-consumption, there is one outstanding commodity commod-ity that this state is short of and which ean.beprof itably produced in practically all sections of the state, namely: swine. We are importing about 60 perent of all the pork consumed. Most of the hogs brought in come from east of the Rocky mountains a long and expensive ex-pensive shipping journey attended by shrinkage, mortality and transportation trans-portation costs, all of which the California consumer pays for in the price of his pork chops, hams, bacon, etc. We are helping the middlewestern farmer pay his labor la-bor and market his feed and ignoring ignor-ing our natural resources and a real business opportunity, If we started in at once to produce pro-duce the quantity of pork brought in in the form of live hogs or dressed products, it would take us more than 10 years to furnish enough pork for our present consumption. con-sumption. So we have an ample field for the employment of a large number of people in the I raising of hogs for which there is an every-day demand at profitable prices. Barley today .is worth around $1.10 cwt. Hogs, even ait this low-priced low-priced season, are around $8-50 cwt. on the Los Angeles market. With other low-priced and many times wasted ingredients consumed by the hogs, it will not require more than 500 pounds of barley to produce 100 pounds of pork, so the cost' of the barley at the present prices would be $5.50 as compared to $8.50 cwt. for the hogs. The barley thus yield's $1.70 cwt. There has been a great deal of talk about not being able to produce pro-duce hogs profitably in California. Admittedly our climate is more favorable than the colder sections of the country. We can easily produce two litters of pigs per year and mature more pigs than in the colder sections. The mortality mor-tality is less than in any other section of the country. During the extreme heat period, hogs will thrive if given shelter. It does not take an expensive housing layout lay-out to furnish shelter where hogs may get protection from the elements. ele-ments. California is an all-year-round farrowing ground. j Those who are going into the i hog business should raise their' own feed. Although there may be j times when grain can be bought ; to an advantage, still, there is al-1 ways the grain growers' profit; that is lost by the hog feeders. In this connection there is a lot of land throughout the state, and j the seuthwest generally, which is being taken out of cotton produc-1 tion and which could be employed to a splendid advantage in the pro-; duction of nlfalfa and other good; livestock feeds. This situation ; opens a way for a considerable ( number of young men willing to j take some of the land for hogj raising. We believe that the ranchers throughout the state who j have such properties would be will-' irg to coopera:e along that line, j Our educational institutions and farm bureaus are in a position to help thes young people to get started in business and to follow j Jines that are most likely to keep them in business. It is more a question of organization, putting together the different factors j necessarv to get the project star:- |