Show astock SITUATION AV amat th afes w carml theres a war to lie do won aud and the winning of it calls for many changes la in the livestock and meat processing and distribution business how drastic these changes may be remains to be understood dundei stood as this country takes the offensive in the world war meat packers are being informed ot of changes they must make in slaughter and distribution so that a larger percentage pei 0 of meat will be made available to the armed forces cices and tor for shipment abirad these changes will af feet the livestock business and perhaps peili aps the alio outlet for foi various gi ades and classes of 0 livestock e Is a growing fee feeling ailing that the government will soon put into effect suggestions from practical stockmen stoc kmen and pa mackeis ekers one program pio ginni that it Is felt certain will ie be put into effect Is a scale of price ceilings on beet beef which will encourage longer feeding periods pei lods and discourage the marketing of half fat beet beef with railroads lalli oads being called upon to a fail fai greater degree than in any recent lecent year as a result of the rubber shortage shot tage stockmen stoc kmen are being asked to give ghe full cooperation to the railroads i all all united states railroads or 01 14 per pel cent more moie cars cais of livestock the first alist three weeks of september this year than dur same period a year ago of livestock on on eight western railroads increased 26 percent over a year ago larger increases may be expected as the tire situation becomes more acute i livestock shippers are asked to speed up loading and unloading as much as possible retrain refrain from holding freight cars at country loading points while sov sorting tIng grading weighing trading and dicke rings with dealers practices which the railroads consider unpatriotic and unfair to other shippers shippers are asked to avoid loading on fridays and saturdays to reduce the heavy market receipts at public stock yards on mondays but to spread out shipping days throughout the week railroad men believe they can move livestock with the least delay through the cooperation ot of shippers livestock markets show comparatively ively little change from a week ago although the demand has ba narrowed down and prices are lower on canner and cutter cows and steers better grades of cattle are holding steady at the close of the past week medium to good fed steers are quoted at 1260 to 1450 common grades 1050 1060 to 12 common to medium tows cows to 1026 1025 good grade cows to 1126 1125 canner and cutter cows to bulls to 11 vealera 13 to 16 choice to 16 1 top hogs 1690 bulk go to pounds weights 1 1660 5 60 to 1590 1 sows bows 1426 1425 to 1476 1475 medium to choice lambs 1260 1250 to 14 |