Show ivest I-ivest SItuatIOn JA Me N. LOS ANGELES Oct 8 Meat 8 Meat food animals pass through three principal channels their production their mar mar- marketing and turning the raw product Into meat foods and their products by followed by distribution to the con con- consuming suming cuming public The outlets represented by the met met- metropolitan centers of the country are of great importance to the producer The growth of consumer demand on the Lne Pacific coast c ast has made itself felt In livestock producer circles as far east eat as the Missouri river and the coast states have changed from ex exporters ex- ex exporters porters IY of meat food lood animals to Importers im Im- porters An Immense meat packing center Is taking shape in Los Angeles to meet the requirements Uh tab extent ex nt of which I IU may be gauged by considering n that the t iUt Ut population U i has more than doubled In the past ten t n years with now nov In of fuse five million people in the state slate to supply riser e are arc man many reasons for the file gathering together together of meat packing plants at a chosen point The principal principal pal one is that through centralization of packing plants adjacent to a cen cen- central central livestock market and with the proper strategic location as to best serve sene the needs of consumer con umer demand the movement of meat food animals may best be sustained slL in hr a regular re flow now This accomplishes distribution and conversion into food products to the best advantage of the producer the packer and finally the ultimate consumer Through bringing together many packing plants at a central point paint J the Die value of products by-products can best be util utilized In the building up of a sufficient volume to make their value Blue of con con- consequence sequence Whereas if the op were attempted at widely scattered points much of this advantage would be los lost Tho The marketing opportunity afforded the producer on the south Pacific coast may well be appreciated when the I constantly increasing packer demand shown hown by the figures below is taken into In to consideration Cattle Cattle- 1922 1923 1924 1923 1926 1920 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 Decrease In calf shipments due to retention of young stock on the range rang in ht replenishing herds The value of live animals received by producers In supplying these requirements runs around 50 million dollars a a. year ana for the past four years the value of packer purchases at Use tile Los Angeles I market follow 1923 1023 1924 1925 and 1926 25 A feature worthy of consideration by the livestock ll producer Is that the outlet In this territory Is not limited to local lecal consumption although that Is increasing annually through the com corn coming comIng ing tag of hundreds of thousands of new residents The local packing industry In the future is destined to grow steadily In Inthe Inthe Inthe the volume of products handled not only to meet local requirements but from front Increased business In stocking ships and supplying in-supplying In supplying the trade o or r g fl Ig Pacific ocean points as well as ship ship- shipments shipments ments m of dressed cd meats sent I by water to the seaboard |