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Show LARGE HOLDINGS OF THE HANSEN LIVESTOCK AND FEEDING COMPANY AND BIG OGDEN PLANT With each passing day bringing home to Ogden livestock interests the vital importance to the nation and the world of a greatly increased supply of cottle and stock of all kinds, it is doubtful if any community in the west attracting more attention at this j time than the territory immediately adjacent to Ogden, where some of the greatest and most important cattle-! cattle-! feeding operations of the entire west are going on. I The great world -war into which the United States has thrown every ounce of its resources and strength has created cre-ated a demand for the livestock man's j product that appeals not alone to his natural desire to make money, but to hhs most generous sentiments of pa- Jtriotism and humanity. America is sending the host of her young manhood to the battlefields of I France and thousands of these soldiers sol-diers are boys from the farms and I ranches of the great west. And as each detachment of boys In khaki I lenves our shores, Uncle Sara sends forth to the American livestock growers grow-ers this stern admonition. "See that these boys have meat!" And the livestock rnen of the west in general and Utah in particular ! are answering with a renewed effort , to increase their production. Beyond all question of a doubt, in the opinion of prominent local live-i live-i stock men. the next few years will be the Greatest period of prosperity for ! intermountain livestock growers of any period in the country's history. In every European country even the l choicest cattle have been killed in large numbers in order to supply the actual demand for food If the stiug-i stiug-i gle keeps up much longer, Europe will have to depend almost entirely upon i lie United States. Argentine and Australia Aus-tralia for her beef and dairy products And it is oul of these conditions that the livestock men can make quick and legitimate profits and at the same j time by increasing his production, render ren-der the most valuable and patriotic j service to his country. These are the conditions that hae actuated such concerns as the Hansen Livestock t Feeding compan of Ogden, Og-den, in the great feeding and manufacturing manu-facturing operations they have under-I under-I taken. Constituting, as it does, one of the I largest and most successful livestock j raising, livestock feeding and stock ! feed manufacturing concerns in the i 6tate of Utah, or in the west, it would be difficult indeed to find a company 'which is making greater, more earnest or more successful efforts to build up i the livestock industry of the inter -1 1 mountain region than the Hansen Livestock & Feeding company of Ogden. Officered b such men as Lars Hansen, Han-sen, C. Wangsganrd, S. S. Jensen, David Da-vid C. Eccles, M. S Browning. Adam Patterson. B. F. Bingham Preston A Blair, and other equally prominent men. the Hansen Livestock 4L Feeding company is not only raising and feeding feed-ing large numbers of cattle, sheep and hogs along absolutely scientific feed ing lines, but the company is also manufacturing a perfectly-balanced feed for livestock, known as Lucermo. Many capitalists, state officials and prominent business men of the state have recently visited the feeding yards and Lucermo manufacturing plant of the company near Ogden, and these men have not only been enthusiastic In their comments on the present operations op-erations of the company and its great I future, but many expressions of opin-I opin-I Ion have been heard relative to the sple&did service the company is rendering ren-dering the government in making possible pos-sible the proper and rapid fattening of livestock ai a minimum of expense and time. The company is now manufacturing 100 tons of Lucermo daily and the capacity ca-pacity of the plant Is to be incroased immediate!, to over 500 tons per day At present, the company Is consuming its entire output at its own feeding pens, but when the output of the plant j is 500 tons or more per day, the Lucermo Lu-cermo product will be put on a commercial com-mercial basic, and be made available for livestock growers throughout the Intermountafn west. Meanwhile, the Hansen Livestock & Feeding company Is endeavoring to purchase all possible cattle, sheep and hogs in this region that are fit for feeding. The company has three feeding stations, sta-tions, one adjoining the Ogden manufacturing manu-facturing plant, one near to Lewiston sugar factory, and one near the Logan factory. It is at these three stations that the companv is feeding it stock for the market. The company also owns the Sage Valley ranch, composed of 2210 acres of fin-- land in Bannock county, Idaho; a Little Mountain ranch in Box Elder county, Utah, comprised of 13,-000 13,-000 acres of grazing and farm land, and other ranching property at Salt Wells. Box Elder county, where it controls con-trols over 2000 acres of equally fine I land. The wide scope of the Hansen Live stock r Feeding eompan activities and the remarkable result being accomplished ac-complished in the feeding of livestock and in the manufacture of the perfectly-balanced Lucermo livestock feed is attracting a great deal of attention to the activities and operations of the company It is reported that a number num-ber of prominent intermountain livestock live-stock men are becoming financially interested in-terested in tho company. |