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Show HIGH PRICES AND BIG PRODUCTION GO HAND IN HAND. Eastern Utah consumers of meat, who have been set to wondering whether there would be nny in tho days to come, will be cheered to learn that the supply of the country has been increased considerably. Local folks have been told from time to time to keep their calves at home. Consumers Con-sumers have been told not to order veal. During the nine months of this year, however, there Iiiih been an increase in calf receipts over the same period in 1916 of 169,664 head or 26.5 par cent. Tho slaughter increased only 18iC per cent, allowing that a large proportion of calves were Hent back to the farms to be fed nnd raised to maturity. But 7:J.:t per cent of the calves slaughtered this year were males, proving that the high prlct of veal has been in a measure the means of Increasing In-creasing our meat supply by marketing of the surplus of tlairy calves which otherwise would have been slaughtered at birth. This in turn proves that nothing so stimulates production as high prices. It gives an incentive, and this would seem to show that in war, when big production is necessary, high prices seem equally necessary. |