Show 1 I 1 e e 72 61 to J CI N I 1 t CT t J A 1112 IP U LOS ANGELES july 26 1927 many drastic changes have come about in the preparation and distribution of meat eat food supplies in the past few years changes along these lines have been progressive being aimed to keep apace with the constant raising of standards on the part of the consumers commensurate with the more ore extensive buying power represented by the purchasers of foodstuffs generally A recent step in this direction which has attracted a great deal of attention has been the stamping of meat carcasses to designate the grade of animal producing the carcass and acting as an assurance to the consumer that the standard of quality conforms to regulations laid down which must be met by the various grades in raising the standard of the product handled through the packing channels anti and delivered to the consumer hiuer of course the reaction is felt clear back along the line through the marketing mai and feeding channels to the th e source of supply represented by the livestock breeders bleeders bre eders the tendency throughout the cesi western states at this time is toward bet beta ter breeding and a gloat deal was lus been accomplished particularly among the larger producers but the securing of proper blood lines by the smaller producers presents a moie snoie difficult problem pi plo blem in many cases the volume of business justify the acquisition of the proper character of sires and for this reason the scrub sire has hung on longer than the situation froman economic standpoint bould warrant A good deal of progress ress has been made in england and scotland in meeting this problem by the building up of a system of community sires in some cases this is accomplished through the government or by the owners of large estates who furnish community sires to their tenants upon the well founded theory that through the medium of better breeding of livestock the estates would produce more abundantly and bring a better return to the owners in the united states there have been scattered efforts along this jine in some cases railroads railroad js having li ainz furnished high bred sires io 0 encourage encourage better breeding and ii in sonic some communities particularly in dairy daily sections the work has hai been carried on asa as A county program however theresias there jias beeri been a backof lack cf of concerted movement along these th ese lines and immense possibilities of teco gains are possible if community high bled bied sires could b be furnished either through county couitt org organizations bureaus boiking along alon 9 1 educational lines civic organizations tins baal banks s idd anil ther other im institutions sti loc located abed in livestock eto producing sections who NOW are directly Jilter interested ested in the we welfare liCare of the industry |