New Britain herald., 1922-11-21
STOCK REPORTING
 SERVICE 0F GOVT.
Department Has System Of Con- pihng Information of Animals

Washington. Nov. 2t.--A new live stock reporting service for forecast ing current livestock production, marketable supplies and commercial movements has been organized by the Department of Agriculture. The serv- ice will cover the Corn Belt and the western rAng0 states and will func- ton through state statisticians nl- ready connected with the Depart ment's crop estimate work. The CO., operation or many railroads. stock yards, packing plants and producers ' organizations for furnishing data as A. basis for ferecasting has been ob- tained.
 The new service is part of the De- partment's program for collecting and disseminating information bearing up- on agriculture, in an effort to in- fluence the organization of the farm business on sound economic basis. It is believed that statistics on pres- ent and prospective livestock produc- tion and information of current mar ket movements will enable purchas- CTS better to correlate supply with demand. thereby preventing gluts or shortages and the attending fluctua- tions in prices.
 Reports Proposed.
 The following reports are pro- posed, to be issued from time to time: Monthly reports on changes in numbers of live stock on farms, semi annual pig surveys in March and No vember, monthly reports of receipts and shipments of live stock from the Corn Belt and western states, month ly reports showing pasture and feed conditions in the rangN states, the condition of live stock expressed in percentages of normal. and live stock prices on the range in territory dis tant from markets.
 ' Estimates of the number of cattle on feed will be made December 1, January 1. and possibly February 1 of each year, the estimates to be con fined to areas where cattle are fed for market chiefly in the Corn Belt states. Estimates on December and January l will show the number of sheep and lambs on feed estimates on March l will show the probable spring move ment of sheep and lamps from Cali fornia, Arizona, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia. A final report of shipments from these states will be made in July or August
 To Make Estimates.
 Estimates will be made of the calf and lamb crop in the range states, the first report to be made about July with final revision on January of each year. Plans for making similar estimates in the Corn Belt states may be developed later A semi-annual estimate of the prospective supply of cattle for spring and fall delivery will be made in February and August.
 Other reports will be an estimate of the prospective movement of grass fed cattle from southern Texas, in February; an estimate of the lamb crop of California and the early lamb crop of Arizona, Idaho and Colorado, in March; a report on the condition of pasture in Kansas Flint Hills and short grass areas, in March and April: an estimate of the prospective move- ment of grass fed sheep from western Texas. in March; the grass fed cattle movement from California, in May; the number of cattle which have gone 'iohi scAC cOutlCIH otdtc5 tO OkIdnO- l ma, Kansas and other northern pas- lures, in June; the probable number of fat and feeder lambs available for shipment from Arizona, Idaho, Wy oming. Colorado and New Mexico during July and August, in June; the number of grass fed cattle moving to market from Kansas Oklahoma, Montana. Wyoming, in July; and report of the calf crop of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona in September.