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Show HAY PRICE WILL SOAR STEADILY Utah farmers and stockmen may look forward to constantly Increasing prices of hay, accord- ing to the November 1 bulletin issued by the Twelfth district federal reserve bank at San Francisco, which says: "Constantly increasing hay prices, with alfalfa now quoted at $25 a ton, are causing many farmers In central Oregon to ship their . breeding cattle to market. Purchases by large in- terests to feed sheep during the winter and by the government for the 16,000 head of horses and mules at the American Lake cantonment are given as the contributing causes." The bulletin says the hay crop Is about normal, with de- creases in Oregon and Washing- ton and jncreases in California, Idaho and Utah. In southern Idaho the prune O crop is only 40 per cent of the normal crop; the Iosb, the bulle- tin declares, being due to ab- normally hot weather in Octo- ber. The bulletin devotes consld- erable discussion to labor dis- turbances, and In one place an- nounces: "It Is too obvious Jo require statement that our present na- tional need is for the greatest Industry, the maximum product and the minimum consumption of food on the part of each Incll- vidua. No hardships of either capitalist or laborer could pos- sibly equal those of the man who Is fighting at the front In the Interests of all." |