OCR Text |
Show GREATER DEVELOPMENT 1 THE LI ESTOClv INDUSTRY. Ogden, Utah, April 2 Renewed confidence that 1919 will bring greater development of the livestock industry in the western states and particularly In the intermonntain territory embraces in Utah, Idaho, Nevada and western Wyoming is ex-preessed ex-preessed this spring by livestock men who are arriving at the Ogden Union stock yards. This confidence is based upon the well maintained price level, the demand for cattle, sheep and hogs, the good condition of the ranges. and the prospects of a sufficient suf-ficient water supply to develope good feeding .crops. Anticipation that the business of livestock feeding will be developel much more rapidly in . the inter-mountian inter-mountian states than ever before is expressed by grain men whose mountain states interests are now being be-ing ceutralied here. The reason for this belief is that they see thocom-bination thocom-bination of alfalfa, molasses from the various sugar factories and screenings screen-ings from the grain handling plants as a balanced feed that will be utilized utiliz-ed by intermountain livestock men entering the feeding business and all produced in the intermountiiu states. World prices for livestock are higher now than even during the war period, due largely to the great demand de-mand for pork and fats in European countries, where the herds have all been so badly depleted that America must supply meat tor two or more years. This condition as to world prices is reflected in the Ogden, livestock live-stock market where there has been an advance in prices until hogs are being sold at $16.75 to $17.50 per hundred. Cattle prices have been maintained at the same level and there is no change in sheep prices. No lowering of price levels is ant.ici-cipatcd ant.ici-cipatcd in the hog market, although local stockmen do not expect that thre will be any upward shift in the immediate future. ' |