Show i Piao To Reduce f. f Swine To Be J Explained Details of or t the Agricultural Adjustment Ad Al- j ment Administration p ram aram ram 1 for raising hog prices b by reducing i numbers of sw swine ne will be explained j jat at a n meeting of the Western states State J Hot Hog g Breeders S Feeders Association Association j tion to be heM held Wednesday Dec Livestock Live Dive G C during the Great Western Vestern stock Show J I A large number of hog growers i 1 of California and other west western wester rn I states have signified their Intention of attending the convention accord according j jing ing to Ray Humphries of Madera 1 chairman He also announces that thata a n permanent organization of hog feeders and breeders will be formed I laid out outto outto 3 at that time and program to protect the Interests of western raisers Much abjection has been voiced voIce by California C nog growers against the proposed federal plan to force w western hog hog- growers to reduce their swine hords herds by 25 26 per cent in order t to share In the tho benefits of the processing pro pro- ceasing tax which amount to 2 2 cents a pound or per head on pound hogs effective February j 1 At present the tax Is 16 14 cent a j pound and it ad advances ances to 1 cent ent a pound December Pointing out that California ia is I now pi producIng educing anI only about 25 por porI I cent of oc the consumed within the state Mr Humphreys Humphres feels that I pork production should be encouraged ed in western states stales At the present time Californians are paying paYin millions millions mil mil- lions of dollars in iii alone in order to bring hogs and ancl pork products ia is form states cast east of or me Lile Rocky Mountains Hog growers rovers will be given a definite de de- finite plan for their approval at the December er 6 G meeting and und a delegation delegation delegation tion probably will be bo sent to Wash- Wash to to work worl out details with Secretary of Agriculture Wallace |