East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-12-01
NEW STOCK MARKET
REPORTING SERVICE
GOVERNMENT PLAN
Will Cover Corn Belt and West
ern Range; Crop Estimate
Department Will Handle 1t.

| casting current llNt-StOCk plOuuCIlOn
marketable supplies and commercial
movements has been organized by the
Department of Agriculture. The ser.
vice will cover the Corn Belt and the
! western range states and will function
| through state statisticians already cor
ncCted with the departments cror
estimate work. The cooperation OF
many railroads, stockYards, packing
( plants and producers organizations
for furnishing data as a basis for fore
casting has been obtained.
Aid to Farmer
The new service is part of the De-
rartment's program for collecting and
disseminating information bearing
upon agriculture, in an effort to in
fluence the organization of the farm
business on sound economic basis.
IT is believed that statistics ON pre-
sent and prospective live stock pro-
duction and information of current
market movements will enable pur-
chasers better to correlatc supply with
demand, thereby preventing eluts or
shortage and the attending fluctua-
tions in prices.
The following reports are proposed,
to he issued from time to time: month
ly reports on changes in numbers of
live stock on farms, Semi-annual pig |
surveys in March ana November, !!
monthly reports of receipts and ship /
ments of live stock from the Corn Belt |
and western states. monthly reports
showing pasture and feed conditions
in the range states, the condition of
live stock expressed in PERCENTAGES of
normal, and live stock prices on the
range in territory distant from mar
lets.
Estimates of the number of cattle
IN feed will be made December /,
january 1, and possibly February 1
If each year, the estimates to be CON
ined to areas where cattle are fed for
market chiefly in the Corn Belt states.
estimates on December and January
will show the number of sheep and ,,
ambs on feed; estimates on March |
viii show the probable spring move
nent Of sheep and lambs from Cali
ornia, Arizona, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Vest Virginia ana Virginia. A final
eport of shipments from these states
will be made in July or August
Estimate No. of Calves
Estimates will bd made of the calf
nd lamb crop In the range states, the
irst report to be made about July
nth final revision on January / of
ach year Plans for making similar
in the Corn Belt states may
e developed later. A semi-annual es-
mate of the prospective supply of
lttle for spring and fall delivery will
made in February and August.
other reports will be an estimate of
le prospective movement of grass fed
title from southern Texas, in Febru-
y; an estimate of the lambs crop of
tlifornia and the early lamb crop of
rizona, Idaho and Colorado, in
arch; q report on the condition of
-Sture in Kansas Flint Hills and
ort grass areas, in March and April
estimate of the prospective move
ant of grass fed sheep from western
Xas, in March; the grass fed cattle
)Vemcnt from California, in May; e
2 number of cattle which have gone ID
I'M the southern states to oklahoma,
lnsas and other northern pastures,
June: the probable number of fat U
Il feeder lambs available for ship A
mt from Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming. Il
dorado and New Mexico during July
d August in June: the number OF
ISIS fed cattle moving to market n
I'M Kansas, Oklahoma, Montana, n
yoming, in July; and a report of the \
f crop of Texas, New Mexico and
iona in September