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Show Time To Rebuild Flocks Says County Ag. Agent IVorea.Miii; numbers of cattle are worrini; politicians and otticials iif toth parties, accord -r. to Ku.ss.-ll i'.. Keetch. iiov.rr.or -wey has promised prom-ised to make "animal aricul-tuie" aricul-tuie" a cornerstone of his ad-iv.:.".. ad-iv.:.".. stratum, if elected. The , present administration is already al-ready busy sliiKitu-.g at higher lewis of livestock production. Lxperts in the agriculture department de-partment think the L'nited Stateri sb.uiild aim at a cattle popul.iiion io.(ii).Lii) head above the all time p-.ak reached o ears ago, Mr. Keetch said. T!:at would txxist total numbers num-bers to '.'."v," i.i J and permit annual slaughter of approximately approxi-mately 3'i.1" head. It grazing resources are fully us. d. say the experts, the goal could be reached in about 10 years. Cattlemen are being urged by CSDA to show "confidence in the future" by holding back more breeding stock and marketing mar-keting fewer animals than the number of calves raised. Livestock Live-stock au'horities predict that producers who want to buy st.)ck this fall will have strong competition from slaughterers. They hxjk for the number of feeder lambs and of stocker and feeder cattle for market to be l-.ss than a year earlier. Sheep numbers at the end of this year could show a moderate moder-ate drop, says Charles, A. Bur-meister, Bur-meister, L'SDA livestock expert, but he thinks the downtrend in sheep numbers is about ended. Rebuilding of flocks, he says, will be confined mostly to western wes-tern states and Texas. |