The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-12-11

report asserted that the use Of the
funds loaned for productive purposes
on the farms covered by the mortga-
ges should be insisted upon.
Mr.. Houstons report reviews the
investigation of the marketing and
distribution system and while the
study Is not yet sufficiently finished
to admit OF final conclusions the work
thus far shows the need OF re-
organization OF the distribution pro-
cess He says:
During the present grass season.
for example, Chicago has received
Mexican, Canadian and Florida cat
tie at about the same time. Steers
raised in California by an Oregon
operator have been shipped through
Denver to Omaha and their beef sent
to points on the Atlantic coast. Hogs
raised in Illinois and sold in Indian
apolis have been slaughtered at Bos-
ton and a part of their cured bacon
shipped to Los Angeles. Michigan
dressed veal calves expressed to
South Water street commission
houses at Chicago have been return
ed to the identical shipping points
from which they came to ill orders
from local retail markets"
Houston .cEc pragS
for an additional emergency appro-
priation of several million dollars on
account of the recent outbreak OF
the foot and mouth disease among
cattle. He says that if the interval
between the last and the present
session of congress had been longer
the department would have been
without sufficient funds to meet the
situation.
"The department" he said, "has
pursued its former policy of purchas-
ing diseased and exposed cattle at
an appraised value, and of slaughter
ing them and burying them 1t has
established very strict quarantine.
The expense OF this task will be
very great and j. will be necessary
to ask congress for an emergency ap-
preparation of several millions of dol
lars. The interests at stake are vast
and justify any reasonable expendi-
ture"
The report sets forth the activities
of the department in establishing
grain grades, and in the initial ad-
ministratiOn Of the new cotton fu-
lures law. which the secretary calls
the "iirst definite, systematic, legal
approach to the solution OF difficult
problems in this field Of distribution"
The secretary recommends consider
alton Of legislation TO establish a
permissive warehousing system for
grain and cotton. He pointed out
that the warehouse facilities for cot
ton in the south are not centralized
"If the warehouses now In exist
ence." said the report, were remod-
eled so as to comply with the un-
derwriters' requirements, and were
bonded, and if adequate business
methods were adopted the financing
of the cotton crop would be mater
tally improved Such a system would
furnish relief in times of emergency
and would form a useful part OF the
normal distributive system. 1t is
probable that a federal law for per-
missive warehousing system would
stimulate this desirable development"
While the production OF grain gen
orally showed q great increase IN
the crop of 1914, the report pointed
out the production of corn showed
no increase and the meat production
showed a distinct decline. In this
connection the secretary pointed out
"lamentable neglect OF live stock
production in the south
The secretary's report includes a
table giving the census figures Tor
1899 and 1909, showing that in all
products except corn and meat AM
mails there has been q marked in