Show ae ives tock 01 L U U alt cl rion ia A iaci w los angeles union stock yards august 9 the 1933 1939 national swine show which brought together the greatest collection of 0 purebred swine ever assembled on the pacific coast Is now history visitors at treasure island during tho show were impressed by the uniformly high quality of 0 entries there it is significant that western herds held their own in every division with the best the east slid aud middle west ha ii I 1 lo 10 offer judges and others 0 hers ir be have witnessed other western dwina blews vere un anilou ani ant mou moua lu in their lopint 1 that western exhibits at this show wire the best evar seen on an the pacific r i iritic coast sp Sc sacral eral cral of thi ci ca in ID the bre breedin edia c ase JS were liori ion california horl horis hor Is i and anul li ci irand grand champ cai fn barrow air i 1 I pi it land virva clr ii brei bred by dish and glavacs II aves porterville Call fornin it is is a fortunate thing that alic t there has been great improvement in III swine type iu in california and other western states for present prospects indicate that only those ranchers with modern ettl clent hogs will be able to td show a profit from swine raising operations during the coming year corn bolt belt swine growers who attended the national substantiated government reports indicating a huge crop ot of pigs lor for this tall fall it is the almost universal opinion ot of statisticians and swine raisers that unless there is an unexpected and sharp improvement in industrial arid and business conditions throughout this country pork prices will inevitably decline as hog increase so far there has been an increase in consumption ot of pork in this country stimulated largely by lower pork prices As one eastern visitor at the show express expressed etl it even though corn belt farmers are arc aware that pork prices will drop with a steady increase in production they will not cut down on their pork raising activity until they actually start losing money some corn belt men place ac per ib as the cost of 0 producing hogs under present grain prices tills this is including allowance tor for labor overhead death loss and depreciation on equipment of 01 course there are always stockmen stoc kmen who never take these expenses into account arid and who often are actually operating at a loss when they believe they are making a little money As a matter of tact fact these expenses are as important as feed costs there Is little question that it is more expensive to raise laise hogs in the lie west than it is in the corn belt the only exception is where our western hogs are used to consume fruit or other products byproducts by that have little or no market value it behooves every western swine raiser to watch production costs by culling his bis herd closely raising only modern eaic tent lent swine and taking advantage of such cost savers as pasture and byproducts pro ducts |