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Show 'MORE SHEEP ARE BEING FED Utah Doubles Its Feeding Total to 188,000 Head This Year CHICAGO, Dec 20 Feeding sheep and lambs for slaughter Increased about 20 rer cent tills year over 1921 wltli the largest numbers being prepared pre-pared for market in the item irrigated irri-gated region, the division of chop ana livestock estimates of the United States department of agriculture announced an-nounced today. In the corn belt, comprlsinp five states en.-'t an. I ru wel r.f ' MI;,sk, sippi riser, the increasi i feeding wu estimated at ten per cent above last year Kansas and Nebraska, the only two str.tes in tho western portion-; red! ted w ,i increases, were reported fatten-20 fatten-20 per cent more stock than last ear A 25 per cent gain was estimated for all the states comprising It. ex- :oept Montana, reporting larger herds on reed. Colorado announced a boost of 3i per cent, from 1,000,000 to 1 -300.000. tho largest number since 1014. Utah advanced its feeding more than any other State, showing a catn of 100 per cent from 9 1.000 to 188.000 head, The general increase in preparation of sheep and lambs for mark' ts, the report said, resulted in lajger receipts re-ceipts at the markets durlnu: the foui months, August 1 to D0C( mber 1. llv-report llv-report .slated, would start cllmbinc this month, reaching the hitfh point in the corn belt In January with western west-ern Nebraska movements at top during dur-ing February and .March oo |