Excerpt from The Livestock Situation, Vol. 29: November 1941 Despite the large increase in cattle slaughter during the past 6 months over that of a year earlier, cattle numbers are expected to show a considerable increase during 1941. The total number of cattle and calves on farms at the beginning of 1942 probably will be only a little smaller than the record high number reached in 1934. Cattle numbers have been in creasing since 1938. If this upward trend should continue for a year or so longer, marketings at the end of that time would.be exceptionally large, and this would almost certainly result in very low cattle prices. Hence, the long-time position of the cattle industry will be greatly improved if numbers do not increase much more in 1942 and later years. The national goal for cattle and calves in 1942 is one of increased marketings rather than increased production. As indicated in the above paragraph, the long-time outlook for the cattle industry will be improved if marketings and slaughter are increased next year. A slaughter of this size will about offset the likely increase in numbers next year resulting from the calf crop and probable imports. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.