Show NEWS IN BRIEF dry weather during most of july seriously retarded the development of commercial truck true crops rainfall came in many of the areas late in july and the first few faw days of august crops were re revived and the outlook for yields of crops maturing during ding the late summer and fall was improved over much of the producing area from michigan and indiana eastward the moisture supply is inadequate to carry crops for to long without additional rainfall in the western states stales conditions are fairly good except that a shortage of irrigation water threatens in some localities according to frank fank andrews state agricultural statistician ranges are in poorer condition than for any year at this date except 1934 as far back as 1923 both teed feed and water are arc becoming too scarce for tile the safety of the range animals up to date however feed has not been scarce enough to reduce proportionally tio nally the condition of cattle and sheep the present range condition is 1 s due first fi gt to freezing weather in june which killed a large portion of the forage on the summer ranges most of these ranges are in the higher altitudes from to feet above sea level prospects for a good rate of hog marketing this summer call attention to the fact that the old packing season of the livestock trade no ion longer er holds good reports colin kennedy in successful farming i ng for august whether due to shifts in hog raising and marketing or to changes in market outlets and eating habits or both recent years have seen radical changes in the handling of the hog kill A lot of pork that used to be stored is now being sold fresh in cuts and shapes not dreamed of a few years ago even hams are in packer hands days instead of months thanks to the quick curing methods and the per of the remainder that formerly went into long time cure and storage is finding its way into cans or into sausage |