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Show Wiews From Farm-Ranch THROUGH THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF UTAH BY WES DICKERSON Those who have fed cattle to sell should consider, selling better, bet-ter, grades during the months of February and March. Continue Con-tinue with calves and light yearlings, year-lings, for which you have good pasture, to sell in August and September. Man,y Questions are asked about the outlook for cattle, such as, Should I borrow money to finish wintering cows, two-year-old steers, calves, short yearlings? If your program was sound to start out with, in most cases the answer would be yes. Demand for cattle will be high in the spring, according to the outlook. F & R Wool price is the big question as shearing time approaches. The military take will influence influ-ence greatly, other domestic use will be cut. Indications are that the price will continue high, and could go' up. Most folks have been talking on the basis of $1 per pound. F&R Early brooded chicks, I mean February or March, stand to enjoy a profitable market next' fall. Feed price squeeze will j force culling. Do not sell your high-producing pullets. F&R Huge slash of 9 , per cent in spring pig crop now official. Pigs . to sell in early August shouid make profit. F&R No one with an efficiently operated family-sized dairy farm has any worries. Buy more good milk cows if you have the feed and. the facilities to take care of them. Every dairyman should strive to. build his dairy herd to at least 20 high-producing cows considered a one-man operation. , F&R Enterprises rated with the risk higher for the year 1952 are as follows: beef cattle, potatoes, po-tatoes, poor land, speculative investments, broilers and tur keys. Low risk enterprises for this year are: small grains, hogs dairy cows,-sheep, laying flocks, productive land. These are not given in order of high or low risk. - ... |