Show sto l sa 9 JA w TOM there were OCO pounds of meet consumed io in hie united states last this IS ie 0 pounds short of nf the year beford the lower consumption beins being attributed tri buted to the short beef supply this indicate a tendil tendency ten dancy ney on the pirt part of the iho consuming public toward eating less there was an increase of 3 pounds of pork consumed as compared wi with th tile the proceeding edin par itis anticipated that will show shown a substantial inart ase in lamb pork or mutton per capita consumption and possibly a dec in beef duo due ti continued ahot t supplies A reaction has set it the holz led by gnp prices in the face of contin continued tied heavy bb bearing aring out predictions earlier in the year it if the cattle markel holds ar iliac hag prices should be satisfactory for the next several month Tb The catte beatte murke marke thas weakened somewhat in the last few weeks due largely to lessened con cont umer demand result ing ik from present pi ice levels n si tuition situa which is ia usual usually 13 experienced anany in any foodstuff food stuff when it een eleachea clies a certain price I eve as tile the housewife who lsne is ing agent of ti tie thu e nation is a good shon erand when she ahe thinks prices ore are more reasonable on cne ne corn com modi ahrin on another ehe euins to that pio product duct the corn bris been helpful to live stock prod producers icem during thi th past year avid and the returns for corni cora were excellent for formers corn of tle tile righta quality tia present high prices price of curr curit have of coulse helped livestock prices the present high corn is likely tore to refute Fuit in int a lifavi lic avy kereage buting the caming season and if a good cro cnorr is had the price is likely to be low this willit mean cheap feell for the corn idt feeder which can likely he be into higher priced live stock and the heavy of the post past few months is likely to result in ft a strong undertone on all classes of livestock for the balance of the year Yea even reven if cheap corn is available tills this situation would of course put the feeders in ina a desirable posit po ailt ion i in the past few months it was r estimated that beef steers were 50 per cent higher and lambs 40 per cent higher than a year ago but 1 that hops hois were 90 0 per cent r in 11 the lace face of this the return relur to 0 0 the hog miser would not seem BO r isolated th hate in spite of th ini ni ceslin them the lower number of 1 eil ed hils has in some extent f offsets thea prices int ini ehfe amount if ift f money received bv produced produce i s f farr c r r hufi production and it is i estimated that money received for hogs during the year wes was lets t than 10 per cent smaller than the hog supplies have been materially materi ally cut down by heavy arid lb ib woul gopear that tile the hogt produce i wils innee r position rosili at lelet alie next several month the consuming cori cow dider gider that while prices for beefs may appear leh high the prosperous condition of the he county mr bics iti tic possible pos aible to pa a rice that wil pi give a satisfactory return to teet producer we should rot forget r that the industry is just recovering from the post war liquidation days ard it Is takeo take o a reasonable with EIK h returns as the in dusty ira I 1 rs rv rf w received boin a measure U beet the joses jos es d ii list I 1 t ne I 1 and from f rom an economic n ial all I 1 branches brn ches 0 f agriculture andi n austry are atu btu to benefi I 1 1 ft et return of the cattle caule ine vetry it t a prof fable basis about your letter lied bill heads statement envelopes cards etc dont donl wait until they are arc all gone and anal then ask us to rush alit tacia ia out dufein aorl for you ov good work and our motto ia that anything worth doing is borte do doing ing well |