Show i- i f. f i Livestock SItu 0 LOS ANGELES A April 1 As I.-As As in- in in previous re lous articles tho the opinion among close observers has bos been that the tho supply of hogs avail avail- available available able for market during the pres Pes- present cat ent year ear would not become sive This In spite of predictions in many man quarters that high pork prices and low feed teed cos costs cost ts would encourage Ie an au Immediate It Is true that production his has I been slightly Increased due duo to the I above situation but there have hae been some sonic factors actors which have to some extent offset the tho increase The principal one of these has been the high prices were vere ere so 80 at at- attractive attractive attractive to many growers that they curtailed breeding In order to take quick profits and for or that reason considerable breeding stock pass pass- passed passed passed ed to the packing plant instead of ot the farrowing pen The fhe angle angie from Crom which this class of producers approached the B III ei u at Ion has some logic as ns they felt Celt that In disposing of ot breeding stock they the could take advantage of the high prices and then make m te their replacements of breeding stock later at lower prices In other words they would get out of or the tho at the tho high 1 point and go goback goback goback back Into It at a Il lower point This appears to to 10 have ve been quite a a. factor In ii sustaining price levels l but of course these producers arc nun now confronted with the fact act that through getting out of the busi bud business business ness they the have ilave acted as t a 0 means of sustaining prices so ISO they will wili either cither have bavo to remain out for Cor some little time or replace their stocks at prices pretty well velI in line with witie oe at Dt which they disposed of oC their breeding animals No Xo doubt a a. factor actor too In some breeders letting go of ot their stock steele has been en tho the fear of oC overproduction lion tion during the coming year ear and an this might have materialized It If everyone had stayed In the bust busi business ness nc although n. n close check of oC the hog population In the country countr would Indicate that there was very et VCr little danger d nger of ot this even though the most moat favorable returns were weN realized ren The manner In which the hoir hor ho producer r has reacted to high l priors prices speaks well nell ell of tho the tendency In all an lines of production toward a IL better balanced operation This amo I me situation is being evidenced in sheep and an 1 cattle production That Is the absence of the thA rush of oC people ople going into lieto production bo- bo b cause those who are In It seem to toLo toO Lo O prospering pro In das gone gono by y tho tendency has hen h en to endeavor to follow fellow market prices with pio- pio and the tho result has gener getter generally ally nil all been teen that they have been becis on the tho wrong wron side of the fence when prices were ere high they started Into production and by the time they got ot in prices had hat reacted result result- resulting log ing largely larget from overproduction However with the growing tice lice of making available to the pro pro- producer producer ducer authentic Information on the thc available a supply of different com corn commodities s the probable demand and the tho general agricultural situation the producer Is II pretty prelly well weil guid guld- guided guided ed and Is gelling away from the Idea of rushing headlong Into InJo pro pro- production as the result r of attractive price pric levels which might prove temporary If It tho the supply were overbalanced there Is a most em em- emphatic emphatic need for tor hop hOI production This applies to the tho territory lying west of o tho the Rocky mountains und and even een though the advIce ico may be good goo 1 to hold production In the middle west and eat east steady or even cn to curtail it It still it would appear sound for Cor the western pro pro- producer producer producer ducer to come closer to meeting the tho western demand for tor pork and pork lork products by increasing his production Reports covering practically every ery line of livestock production are now available for the current period and little can be found in them that would indicate any any- anything anything anything thing but continued d satisfactory returns to the producer through 1927 While there may be a II grad grad- gradual gradual ra ual price reaction a il little later all along alons alon the tho line lino the trend toward towar 1 conservatism in production Is likely to guard against overproduction overproduction such fouch as has resulted so disastrously to producers In la the past |