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Show TOP PRICES AT L. A. MARKET ! V. A. C. Stock Expert Says New Yards Will Benefit West T.Ofl ANGELES, Nov. 6 With top prices bring offered for rattle, sheep .'.JiT and tinfj on the new I'nion stockyards stock-yards market here on the opening d iv P r i .1 .1 John T Catne J T 1 of Logan, i tah, expressed the opinion that the market will prove valubh1 to western slockmen. J The top cattle on th first day were ' nteere from Victor, Idaho, good Derefords which the Charles TEL. Hill Livestock Commission company sold 1,1 H to T. H fialloway for Wilson & Co. The shrink on the jr. head was only JO pounds to the animal. I he Crane Check Hheep company j or Ogden topped the market on 870 Head of clipped lambs that brought 1C :'o with no cutouts. Another lot fjf medium Utah lnmbs brought lrM fl2 7 5. ; Ctah rirnln ICOred with hogs, two rVurloads of cornfed porkers from Millard Mil-lard county topping the market at Bl60. These were consigned by l 'jjJI farmers and were in charge of County Coun-ty Agricultural Supervisor A At. M ";' Guile They made an average of 1 . j pounds. Two cars of hogs from Han-j Han-j 1 , ford. Cal., averaging 170 pounds were I sold at $11 .25. Shipments of rattle Into the n-iv central market have been fairly strong Yut hogs and sheep have been light ;iti'l the strong demand for good ho-rs in. Urates brisk trading on those that ire lent in Secretary J. fj. Imrson of the Jackson Hole (Wyo) Cattle an! Horse association was so well plc.ise.i Hilifn with the price received on 26 cars ol Herefords that he said 40 to SO cars additional would probably bo ahlpped down from his district. ! In his address before a crowd of lOore than 3000 persons attending tn opening day ceremonies, General I , Manager J. A MeNaughton announr-efl announr-efl the policy cf the market as being to encourage production and belt r 'jijl.j finishing, to supply a daily i ash out-ldt out-ldt for the livestock produced and to improve credit conditions In the livestock live-stock Industry through mote efficient marketing. CAINE I SPEAKER Marlus de Brabant, assistant traffic manager of the I'nion Pacific system; Mayor Crycr Ir George F Clem-epts, Clem-epts, director of the agricultural department de-partment of the chamber of commerce, com-merce, were other speakers, while Professor Calne gave the viewpoint of ohe who has worked for 15 years among stockmen of the west on pro-jji. pro-jji. duction and marketing problems "Greater advance has been made," he said, "in solving problems of production pro-duction than in distribution and mar- Meting. The winnings of the tnlver-.-ity of California at the Chicago international in-ternational show that the west can produce as good live-stock as any section, sec-tion, but through a single misstep iho man on the range may lose tha profits of several years' work in livestock live-stock production when he market! the ranch through an expert buyer who Is better nbh to make a profitable profit-able deal for himself than the aver-eke aver-eke stockman. I knew last year of a case in which range lambs sold at 5 cents, went to the packer at 7 cents and came o uotf the feed lots at 41 cents a pound The speculator or buyer who hold3 the stock 16 days makes a bigger profit all civet than the man who spent many months to produce it. The scheme of contracting con-tracting for tho sale of livestock, with all its evils. Is the outgrowth of the method of buying at. the ranch. Th. Los Angeles Union stockyards are the first step toward supplanting this antiquated anti-quated system I do not indict tiw packer, th'; middleman or the buyer, but I do pronounce an Indictment against nn outworn system which W'orke against the producer. It has no educational a!ue. but at the stockyards stock-yards where the livestock is gradod and classified a farmer soon lear 19 why his neighbor's stock has brought J s higher price than his own. It I I 111 ehows tho value of good blood and ill good care. The growers arc educated to produce quality and finish and the public gets better meat for the BSjme money. The yards are re'i-laited re'i-laited by the government nnd It is m every sense a producers' livestock market.'' |