Arizona republican., 1910-08-08
SHR|NKAGE
 IF MEATS Shortage Of the Country's Animal Food Supply 4 HALF YEARS SHOWING
Though Last Month of the Period Presented an In creased Movement Com pared With Earlier Ones, Lighter Than Year Ago.

| Washington, August 7.-Commercial | movements of live stock and meat products for the first half of 1910,
 as reported to the Bureau of Statis-
 tics of the Department of Commerce
 the shortage of the animal food sup ply in the country. While the June ' movements were in most cases heav- fer than for the earlier months, the
 record for the first half of the year,
 both in the domestic and foreign com
 merce, indicates d considerable shrink
 age in the commercial supply of some of the prime necessaries of life Livestock receipts during June at primary interior markets, 3,039, 7SO head, for the first time since January showed a gain and exceeded even the June, 1909, receipts of 2,952,S head Of the total 651 ,679 head were cattle;
 101, 400 head, calves; 1,5S2, ,692 head. hogs; 6S3,6SS head, sheep; and 2O.321
 head. horses and mules The June receipts of hogs, while decidedly high CT than in either of the three pre- ceding months, still continue much below the average for like periods in earlier years. while the cattle figures
 exceed the corresponding 1909 and 1908 totals. The shortage in the commercial supply of livestock is
 best seen from comparison of the half yearly figures, which totaled 16,- 463,756 head in 1910. compared with 19,OS1,7 ,725 cad in 1909 and 2O,S2O,39 head in 1908. The loss of over 2Js
 million head, as compared with 1909, is due almost entirely to the smaller
 number of hogs brought to market. Assuming that the average six months receipts for the last years at the primary markets represent the nor
 mai commercial supply, the shortage in hog receipts thus far in 1910 is almost 25 per cent. However the larger average weight of the animals reported for the present year offsets, to some extent the loss in numbers. The distribution of this loss in hog receipts is far from uniform. Chicago, shows loss of S1 per cent, as com pared with the above average; Kan sas City, a loss of 26 per cent; Omaha loss of 20 per cent, and St Louis, loss of only per cent. The cur tailment in the commercial supply of cattle is less pronounced. the months receipts for the present year being about per cent below the average half-yearly receipts for the preceding five-yea period. It should | be stated. however, that the cattle fig
 ures for Omaha and St. Louis include the receipts of calves. Inasmuch as the months receipts of calves for
 the present year at the markets | which report them separately were l over 22 per cent larger than the aver 
 age months receipts for the pre-
 ceding five-year period, it follows that | the receipts of cattle at the leading markets were really lower than stat ed above, and the losses. as com pared with earlier years, correspond | ingly larger As compared with the aboVa ayarapa tha racefntc of Shean at the leading markets, 3,S2O,256 head, show a loss of over Il per 1 cent It is noteworthy that the de- cline in the supply of sheep began | after 1906. that of cattle after 1907. and that of hogs after 1908.
 Livestock receipts for June at the four principal Atlantic seacoast cit ies, S19,754 head, were larger than for any other month of the year, and 1908. totals of S65,57O and 92O.- 236 head, respectively. The aggregate livestock receipts at these four cities for the first half of the year, s,S65,- 200 head. likewise show a decided de- cline from the corresponding 1909 and 1908 figures of 4,457,OSO and 4,SO5, 1895 head. Here also the largest loss is shown in receipts of hogs, while the number of calves marketed shows substantial increase over the figures