The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1919-01-03
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Local ahccpmcu report no losses 20
fnenk ~ on the ranges so far this
winter. Most 81 tho herds owned ~
aud about Price are ranging on tho
-est dcsert whore the feed h said e.
hc good.
Grand county's first shipment Of
hogs o. the outside were loaded NJ
Thompfona fcw days ago for the
soit Lake city Union stockynrds. n
prices are satisfactory other shin.
menta are 10 follow.
Three Grand county ranchmon are
out some ninety head of cattle whirh
they recently turned over 60 Howard
iloud. alias Barr. Tor had checks. The
victims are Thomas n. Foy. Peter
Jones and several others. The Officers
are looking FOR the buyer. lie IL sup
posed 20 be now on tho coast.
one thousand breeding ewes arc boz
ing distributed among the farmers 81 |
Rock Island county. Ills. through the |
cooperation ~ the county farm bu-
reau and county agent. These owes
will be- placed on sixty-siN farms ana i
VIII form ccntcrs Tor developing sheep
growing. Purcbroi shropahirc bucks
are being placed with practically az
the new flocks
The fact that the live stock grow.
orn Of the intermountnin country TO-
day occupy higher position t'inn
ever before In the M 'rkett 81 the
United States ~ strpnc ind1rseinnni
~ the fat stock shows ccnauctod an.
nuniiy by the intermountain stock
Show association al North Salt Lake
City. rhe third annual show. u o. nn.
nounced. win take place during thc
first week ~ April. 1919.
Secretary \. w. Mcclure Of the Ma.
tionai woolErowerH association says
relative 20 beef exports. During the
fiscal year ending Juno 80. 1915. our
total exports of beef aud beef pr5
duties 90 Europe. including that used
Tor our own army. amounted Co Ggs..
$4,000 pounds This looks like n
volume OF beef hot when q
We compare u with our total annual
production u dneS not appear - im-
poriant The total annual production
nf beef In the United States 10 about ,
nino hundred million pounds. our ca
ports, therefore. represent little less
han 7 per cent Of our total produc- ,
Ion The normal fluctuntion In beef =
production u greater than these eX- h
ports"
Hos shipments from Utah have In 7
'reahed 30 per cent over last year,
according 20 j. II. Manderfield, man "A
yer 81 the Salt Lake Union stock @
ards. Many sections OF the state d
which heretofore have paid little at q
ention To the hoEralsing industry
ave found II 10 be n profitab BILE busl- g
ices The thing which has Increased 3,
log production the most Is tho way the d
little growers have combined their Ia
york and shin a. carload lots" says y
They have done this II
Vor since last January and Il has h
aved them enormous expense. Form %
rly so per cent az the hogs received 4,
4 the Salt Lake city stockyards were al
rom Idaho, This season up 10 date Il
he bulk % the hogs came from Utah "a
arms. The records show hogs COM h
ne from nifty 90 hundred miles
rom railroad points. These avs O.
lipped 10 the yards Washington Sd
"a dlr0n counties are proving very %,
rogresaive IN this respect" II.
That big dividends follow invest pl
rents in cattletick eradication work A
shown by Investigations during the b.
~ year by the United States de- "a
artmeut of agriculture The expense a
cks Is repaid from twenD' 10 fifty ef
mes The cost of makmr the uacss- d'
,ry number OF clippings arles from a.
My eishetecn 20 flfty GEMS fnr each II
nimal and one canvass showed an
,erage estimated Increase ~ S9.7C In
llue az tho tickfree cattle. More 90
IAN that. the eradication OF the tick. lye
conducted under federal super. ~
sion. permits the Introduction of az
ghclass beef and dairy cattle sud on
Ie establishment OF a more profitable y
70 stock industry. Emphasis Is also s S
aced by the department on the nest
r clear understanding Of the pTr-
'ae OF tick eradication and the neoes- gr
~ for strict compliance with regu, hr
tions 10 insure thoroughnesg. BY
operating with the government in
0 work farmers receive tho numer- su