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Show both to the big demand for healthy, high producing cows in Southern California and to the general campaign cam-paign to rid the county of tuberculous tubercu-lous cows. At this time, there is a widespread demand for good heifer calves, sired gy pure-bred bulls and out of high producing dams. It will pay dairymen who do not raise their own heifer calves to use good bulls, as there is a better market for well-bred well-bred heifer calves to go into other dairies than there is if such stock is sold for vealing. s There is added interest in the so-called so-called "dual purpose" cattle since beef prices have advanced. There are large numbers of dairymen who' buy all of their cows, force them along to the limit of milk production, and then figure on selling the cows for beef. It is pointed out by advocates of the "dual purpose" animal that such stock may be bred up for high production pro-duction and at the same time, when the animals are "milked out", they should bring better prices for beef purposes. Further, the calves from the "dual purpose" animal are more salable for vealing, or for the production pro-duction of beef. Practically every western fair reports re-ports the largest entry list of pure-gred pure-gred beef and dairy cattle, swine and sheep on record. This indicates that the production of pure-bred, register-eld register-eld live stock is rapidly "com'ing back" and also brings out the fact that stockmen are interested in buying better-bred animals else the breeders would not go to the expense of fitting and showing itheir choice animals. being based almost entirely on the lower grade and cull cattle. Every market report issued in the county including the government reports, is based upon these stock yards sales. If the sales are of plain and half-fat cattle, then the quotations must be based upon, such stock, with the apparent ap-parent result that the best cattle sold in the country do not have the benefit bene-fit of quotations on cattle as good as those selling at the ranch. Those who actually raise well-bred stock and get them in high condition are not getting as much money for such stock as the market actually should pay and such cattle should more often oft-en be sold on the public market. As the old saying goes, "we can't eat our cake and have our cake," and it Ib up to the producer not only to consider his neighbor but to consider his own pocketbook. There is a shortage of good dairy cows in the western country, due rwh : r Hog prices have reached the high-, high-, est levels of the season, with light ' butcher hogs selling at 13 cents a pound and getter on the Los Angeles market. It appears that over a period per-iod of ten years, hog prices reach the highest levels during July, August Au-gust and early September- The large corn belt supply of spring farrowed far-rowed pigs ordinarily is ready for market by October 1st, and it is natural nat-ural to expect some decline in values by that time. As it is, the hog feeders who have choice butchers now ready for market are in for attractive at-tractive prices which should yeald very satisfactory profits. Cattlemen must realize that, no matter where their cattle are sold, the price is based upon actual sales made at the western stock yards markets. mar-kets. There is an admitted tendency on the part of cattlemen to permit country buyers to "top out" their herds, and then to ship the balance of the crop to the open market. This results in values on the open market |
