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Show HJiews Vy From Farm-Ranch THROUGH THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF UTAH BY WES DICKERSON The General Council of the American National Cattlemen's Association, composed of the presidents of affiliated state associations, as-sociations, met recently in Denver Den-ver to discuss problems facing the industry. It was indicated fom the best information available avail-able that there doesn't appear any way to avoid a short supply of beef for a period of several weeks as soon as the bulk of the range run is over and before the new crop of shorWed cattle is available to come to market in any volume. This shortage impends according accord-ing to the Association secretary, despite the fact that there has been a tremendous increase in breeding herds throughout the country.. The Department of Agriculture' Ag-riculture' experts are now estimating esti-mating that the total number of cattle on hand January 1, 1952 will be in the neighborhood of 90 million head some 5 million head more than the all time hign of 85,573,000 on January 1, 1945. To help meet this threatened beef shortage, the Council urged urg-ed cattlemen generally to market mar-ket as many cattle as possible this fall that are available for beef. This can be done, however, only if Congress sits pat on the Act as extended effective Aug. 1, and doesn't amend it so as to permit the reimposition of packer pack-er slaughter quotas. F &R A larger lamb crop will be produced if ewes are gaining in weight at breeding time. This "flushing" can be accomplished by turning the flock into fresh pasture, or feeding Vfc to 1 lb. grain mixture daily for two weeks before turning in the ram. Lush legume pastures, such at alfalfa, ladino or other clovers are not recommended during the breeding season as ewes tend to settle slowly and the lambing period will be spread over a longer period. Pastures containing contain-ing mostly gass will produce bet-I bet-I ter results. WE'VE GOT MORE American industry is in a much better position to supply this country's needs, both civilian ci-vilian and military, than it was at the time of Pearl Harbor. We've now got many more plants, newer equipment, and we've found quicker and better bet-ter ways of making things. Some of the larger companies say they are set to turn out twice as much goods as they did during I World War II. |