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Show PICKERS FEEL HOG SHORTAGE IN WEST STATES, Utah and Its Neighbor Ara j Drained of Porkine Supply Is Claim WEST IS BUYING SWINE IN THE EAST Serious Situation Pointed Out in Editorial From Livestock Live-stock Journal J How Utah and other western states I have been drained of hogs and how western packers are going to eastern markets to obtain hogs which formerly former-ly were obtained in western states is told in an editorial in tho Denver Dally Record Stockman, which has been received in Ogden.' "Reaping the Results of Overshlp-ping" Overshlp-ping" Is tho title of the. editorial, I which conveys facts which many stockmen say will be news to many. Text, of JEillfnHuI.. "Depletion of tho west's hog.suppliQs has beon iio'ted at Omaha." PaoKera from bsfl enwfnSal kRe ifbGon rtTTc1Pee?eiit'li'Lsearch oT animals to j balance their beef and 'mutton kill. I Thoreby, for growers out this way and Colorado may have a few also there comes homo to roost a warning which was generally heard about this 1 timo a year ago, that too many stock j hogs wero being shipped out. The attractive at-tractive prices prevailing last year undoubtedly un-doubtedly lured many a grower into cutting his droves closer than ordinarily ordi-narily would be tho case. Reason for Shortage. J "A Dcnverlto who watches such affairs, af-fairs, and who noted In an issue of the Record Stockman this week a report that western, packers wore calling upon tho cast for hog supplies, suggested sug-gested that tho shortage of hogs in Utah and Idaho is due not only to tho activity of the coast buyers In purchasing pur-chasing hogs, for California, but also to the fact that these states were drained of their feeddr hogs last season sea-son by buyers from Nebraska and Kansas. That is why Ogdcn and Salt Lako packing houses are buying hogs today in Nebraska. "As early a3 last August it was freely free-ly predicted at those points that there would be a shortage of fat hogs soon. It is estimated that between 250 and 300 hundred cars of feeder and serum hogs were shipped to the east from Ogdon territory. At one lime one dealer deal-er In stock hogs at Ogden had orders for 73 to 100 cars of feeders, and tho country was so well drained that ho was unablo to fill more than ono-third of tho orders'. Littlo Heed Given. "It Is evident that tho growers paid litllo heed to the protests of the stock yards and packing pooplo last year. Tho3e interests put out much propaganda propa-ganda to prevail upon the stoclcmen to fatten tho hogs ho was selling, but with a declining market and the fact that they were paid the top price on fat hogs on eastern markets for their fcedors f. o. b loading stations, the growers proceeded with what they termed their own affairs. "Perhaps wide publicity of the cir-cumstanco cir-cumstanco that this western country Is going cast for Its hogs would becomo be-como an agency of inducement to the farmers of these parts to oxert greater effort towards tho raising of swine. Certainly there is a void which cannot bo filled for many years. There is no danger of flooding tho market. |