Show need for more cattle the meat and cattle industry is ia being investigated agail again not by the government but dy by a battery of experts who want to discover why meat selling as cheaply as as it did twenty years yeara agol ago the key to this situation can be found I 1 in utah because conditions here are very similar to those throughout the entire nation except those who raise hogs and cattle more or lesi exclusively little effort is made to produce the baxt jaxk mum number of animals that the land or conditions would permit on the cattle ranges there is the perennial complaint that the packers and commission houses are to blame for far not encouraging greater production that prices are not at abut bat they hey should be considering the price the consumers pay for meet meat that the profits from grama grains are greater than from producing beef cattle under the pre pret present t machinery of distribution and that the ranges are be ing constantly cut up into ino farms the truth is that the production 0 of f C cattle attle has lagged far behind the increase in population or consumption tion and if there were not something radically wrong in the business cl ness this would not be 6 the case cattle and hogs are sent t to mar or from this section of utah cot constantly smi but it would seem that the number is 13 nothing si compared with the demand and for beef As it is imports tiona are likely to be a feature of our economic lite continually and the meat that we import could just as well be raised in our own country |