Show the be livestock situation by J A Alc mcnaughton Naughton with pork poil tind nud lard laid i reaching caching an all eight year pink peak this your siai and prices dropp lna toa to a sov icv oral year low lovi it Is inevitable that production will bo be curtailed cm alere at the los IMS angeles union aulon stock yards where a pre over 0 ei eastern prices Is paid best hugs are aio bringing only per lier not enoi enough igli to give ghe glowers urs a return ou on operations even ben avith barley baile tile the principal feed grain at prices pikes lower than ut at harvest hanest time last year U S january aud february slaughter totaled head bead under federal inspection D na the same period last year federal kill amounted to only j load head aud and in 1035 it was ft as head storage holdings especially in the case of lard laid have hae swelled celled to large huge proportions the national stock of lard laid lu in march uis lbs un iain till all time record tills this Is poi per cont cent larger thau than it a year eai ago 1190 and d per pei cent above the five year average el pork stocks at present amount to lbs ibs which Is the largest since june 1037 and 11 per pei cent greater than a year oar ago this lb is despite di pite till an excellent poi pork lipio pro duct selling campi loii carried ou on by the institute of american meat packers and the national live lie stock and bleat board 1 an III indication of i reduction going on all among lieras throughout the country corinti lii Is found lu in accumulating I 1 11 g of hp saws aud and id ed at the central markets demand for foi feeder pigs pigi is negligible prospective summer supplies are huni heavy and nn all increasingly leavy sow so movement moi ement Is ii anticipated it semis inevitable that pro pio duellen will all be curtailed the fact of the matter mattei being that a good many ilog hog raisers are re exit existing ting es t their operations at the pr pi eisent e n time although it is inevitable that the market will improve liny ioe there is little liopo hope of a higher barket in the near future every eury slight ad ance aalice in ill the middles ill Idd lewes epstoin torn and cistern markets on aich which our oui prices are based brings increased receipts I 1 any likelihood of an at improved market must depend largely on three factors export demand which will depend on oil wil lal ll 11 t hiu hall pons in III liuio im volida tlona in fit ehlt till country and the hie legree degree with which bog raisers cut down their production know your town townsend read rend the news |