Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1913-06-26
SIGNIFICANT MEETING
Of Stock Breeders--N., c. &
st. L. Ry. Host.

Inc meeting at JACKSON last
week of the officers of the County
Live Stock Associations along the
lines of the Nashville, Chatta-
uooga u st. Louis Railway west
of Nashville, and Others interest
ed in the Improvement of stock
breeding on the southern farm,
convened at the instance of the
Industrial Branch of the N. @.
u st. LIS Traffic Department,
was a significant gathering. 1t
was attended by men represent
ing the general farming class to
whom the great army of beef
consumers of America must look
for future supply; by actual
breeders of thoroughbred stock
who must furnish the farmer
blooded breeding animals for
grading up the common herds of
the country, and by bankers and
business men who are directly
and indirectly interested in the
success of the movement looking
to q wider range of meat produc-
ton on the farm.
The most significant aud inter-
esting features of the conference
were an address by M. A. Tray
lor, Vice President of the Nation
al Stock Yards National Bank,
Chicago, and an address by Il. f.
Bisbee, Vice President of the st.
Louis National Stock Yards,
Chicago. During the course of
these addresses it was shown that,
considering the alarming short
age of live stock in the United
States, especially with respect to
cattle, with the correspondingly
high prices OF beef and other
meat products, together with the
| steady decrease in acreage yield
of all grain crops, If the Ameri-
can farmer is in the future to
supply the food for the tables of
American citizens something
must be done to establish q sys-
tenn of live stock farming which
will insure an increased food pro-
ductlon commensurate with our
rapidly increasing population.
Emphasis was placed upon a
statement recently issued by the
Department of Agriculture at
Washington, showing that in
January, 1918, there were 49,
100000 fewer beef cattle on
American farms than on January
1st, 1907, although In the same
period the population of this
country had increased 12, 900, 900.
1t was also shown that while 494,-
600 head of cattle were exported
from the United States in 1906,
only $4,000 cattle were exported
in 1872. q decrease in exports
during the past SIX years of 93
per cent.
In view of the recent agitation
relative to storage Of food pro-
ducts, st might be interesting to
observe that at the close of De-
cember, 1908, there was in cool
ers in this country two hundred
and sixty-two million FIVE hun
dred thousand pounds of beef.
This stock had decreased by De-
cember, 1910, to one hundred
thirty-fve million six hundred
thousand pounds, q decrease of
almost so per cent, and while no
figures have been published fer
1912 it is estimated that probably
the entire stock on hand at the
close of last year did not exceed
thirty-five million pounds consid-
ering alone the decrease in the
number of cattle in the United
States, the decrease in our ex-
ports of all cattle and beef pro-
ducts and the decrease of stocks
of meat on hand, with the admit
ted increase in our population
we certainly cannot be mistaken
in the assumption that the supply
is wholly inadequate to meet the
demand.
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