Show JA Situation LOS ANGELES A April 23 In In gauging the extent of o any Industry In In- y accurately best meth meth- method method method od Is by comparison Petroleum Is la the principal mineral resource of oC California and the tho refining of 0 this product the tho largest single manufacturing Industry in the tho state The state produces In crude oil alone atone tho the Immense sum Bum of o over annually However eYer when this Is compared to lo agriculture it must mut be con con- conceded coded ceded that agricultural production tion continues to rank first as tho the largest basic Industry of o not only California but o or of the the entire west It Is estimated that Call Call- California's fornia's fornias agricultural turnover In Including in- in all alt lines for last ear eluding or year reached nearly one billion dollars Around of o this total consisted ot of o field crops and In livestock production Tho The outlets at Pacific coast const consuming centers are arO well 11 Il II Illustrated by the time fact tact that despite des Ill the immense agricultural a production production tion of o California still it Is necessary necessary necessary essary to import large quantities of o food stuffs of o all classes from I virtually the entire territory lying between hE tween tho the Pacific ocean and the Missouri 1 river For Its Us meat food fo d supplies California looks to that territory for at t. t least 50 per percent percent percent cent of Its beef beet 25 23 per cent of its mutton and 90 and 90 per cent of o Its pork The packers In tho Los Angeles territory alono alone require 1500 cattle and calves es 2000 hogs hogsand ho hogsand and 2000 sheep per pet day through through- throughout out the year ear A demand in excess of the supply is always a a. healthy marketing situation and the form form- formIng Ing lug of consuming centers In Call Cali California fornia Cornia which now represent over people arc are proving of great value to the producer with within Ith- Ith in the tate state as well vell as IUS in contiguous ous emma territory A recent survey gives Ives one an all idea of the rapid expansion of or consuming centers on the west I coast showing that Iowans Iowan have located lo in southern Call Cali California fornia Cornia alone This also aho shows population Increases from 10 70 per percent percent cent cont to per cent In the past p six si years cars with the chief source of o population Increase coming from the tho middle west Illinois ranked a II close second to Iowa by supplying additional and another arrived from Crom Ohio Michigan and New York Tork each contributed l people popl p while several middle western states arc are In the class claps On top of these figures around visitors are among amon those present In Call Call- California fornia each year Tho rho concentration of o this huge population results In centralized consumer demand to supply which the coast Is reaching far back Into the interior for its lis meat food tood supplies as aa well as other commodities A A. recent report cite s the tho dairying Industry In the th th west as a being representative e of or this situation It shows that with witha a a. constant increase in shipment of dairy products to tho the Pacific coast the movement to eastern cast rn markets marl ets upon which the producer er has depended In the tIme past has ha decreased ase l due d e to the attractive differential This has happened In Inthe the production of or other food food- foodstuffs foodstuffs stuffs In lit practically all the states supplying time the California demand The production of many of o these commodities formerly had Iad hadnot hadnot not developed de duo to long ship ship- shipping shipping shipping ping distances to market hut but with the opening ot or the western out out- outlets outlets outlets lets the western rn supply Is con con- constantly constantly coming forward to meet the western demand As a con comm consequence sequence producers pro of or all food foodstuffs stuffs Including meat food ani ani- animals mals mais will benefit In the territory Immediately adjoining the con con- consuming suming centers in California Call Cornia as aswell well vell as the states statts located In ire tribu tribu- tributary tributary tributary tary territory |