Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-01-15

tp1u NluutN tlllS-lud same lndl
| Mrs. Crandal has twice publicly recon-
mended. Foster Milburn Co.. Props,
Buffalo. n. Y.
commended and its continuance was
suggested. A law to prevent hogs
being allowed to run at large was
urged by the resolutions.
Attention was called to the fact that
the state has been offered the Ada
| County fair grounds as a gift provided
that 1t maintain them and use them
for conducting a state fair. The ae-
ceptance OF this gift was recommend
ed and the recognition of the Gem
State fair as the official state fair
was urged The Poland China Futur-
ity show at Caldwell last year was
commended and similar futurites by
other breed associations was recon-
mended, in Gn additional resolution
suggested by Mr. Goodspeed at the
time of reading the committees re-
port
Calling attention to the fact that the
exports of meats from the United
States the last year have been the larg-
est in history and that the outlet for
| packers products has been good and
| that hog prices have been very low, the
| resolutions asked for q federal inVesti-
cation of the so-called packers trust
and their control of livestock prices,
Q. =. Henderson, offered the amend
ment that an investigation of all trusts
be recommended but Mr., Hubbard
said that nothing could be gained by
wide shots. MIR. Hubbard asked that
they make q rifle shot of 1t and aim
at the one institution that has APP
parently injured tho swine industry.
Mr.. Memberships amendment was lost
and the resolutions were adopted as
read. A resolution deploring the death
of former president ]. NJ. Royston was
also passed.
As Buyer Sees Hog Business.
Virgil Patterson, buyer for Cudahy
& Co. Los Angeles. with headquarters
In Pocatello, upheld the idea advanced
by Mr.. Hannah earlier in the session.
advocating the production OF a hog
that will bring op price on the mar
ket. What the packers want, said the
speaker, is a young animal. weighing
from 175 to 225 pounds, light in bone,
well bred, not stunted but blocky. He
said the reason for low prices was the
ldCl lndt tH6 nORIdlSSTb IOTCeO on tne
buyers undesirable animals on which
the buyer was forced to lower his
price He predicted that next year
there would be scarcity of hogs in
the state for the reason that, owing to
the high price OF grain, farmers have
preferred to sell off their hogs and put
their grain on the market rather than
feed. II growers would not do this
every now and then, and the hogs
We're put on the market more evenly,
the packers could not control the price,
he said.
MIR. Patterson's address was very in
structive. He said that Los Angeles
will always want Idaho hogs, but the
raisers must produce the kind of pork
that the packers require. He said that
he was not boosting any breed but that
he wanted to get away from the strict
ly bacon breeds as much as possible.
. He said that a compact. blocky hog
that has been crowded from birth I'M
til 1t is about 200 pounds in weight
> will cut out nice lon and ham that
any family will BE glad to buy. A hog
that will produce a lot of fat or meat
that must be put down in dry salt
pack is not wanted because there Is a
very limited market for dry salt or
= fat meats. lie said that his company
had formerly gone to the Missouri
river and Denver markets for it's sup
plies of live hogs for the Los Angeles
plant, but that It prefers the Idaho hog
TO the middle western product because
the hogs raised on alfalfa and fatten-
ed on wheat or barley are of good
flavor and have a lower per cent of fat
meat than the strictly fed hog.
Mr. Patterson said that the southern
California climate is not favorable ia
the heavy consumption of fat meats,
the system does not require it. The
whole country will someday be popu-
lated with people, a large percentage
of whom are retired and who will no,
produce their own pork; to get this
trade, Idaho hogs must conform to the
! requirements of their trade He said
that If it was not for California COM
petition in Idaho. Portland would have
probably been stealing Idaho hogs
Later he said that when Frye comes
into southwestern Idaho to buy hogs
California cannot compete in the west
orn part of the state because of the
difference in freight rates
MIR. Patterson presented the pack ers
side of the hog industry in a gentle.
manly way that won him the friend
ship OF his hearers and his arguments
about poorly finished hogs and hogs
that have been stunted in their growtt
met with favor by the experienced
growers. He predicted that hog prices
will rise steadily and that the breeder.
" will get good prices for all the brec
: gifts they can furnish in the spring.
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t Services at Caldwell.