Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1914-01-17
Mutton Famine Predicted at
WOOlgrowers' Meet on Ao.
count Of Alleged Reckless
Marketing.
ONE SHORT CROP rs
ENOUGH TO DO 1T
Supply Diminishing and De.
mand Increasing Says Poole
Chioagoan Speaks on Rail.
road Contracts.


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Salt Lake city, Jan. IA mutt
ton famine WAS predicted hers to-day
/ by J D.. Poole editor OF the Chicago
Live Stock World, in an address bee
tore the National Wool Growers as.
lFuciatiun, meeting in annual session.
| During the next five years. he said.
| the scarcely would become acute.
Ar. Poole said that for the last
/ five years the west had been mar
kctiHE eve lambs ln the same rocls-
less manner as d sent heller calves
90 the butcher from 1900 10 1910.
Good authorities. he said estimate
that eighty per cent OF tho eve
iloCkH of the west are over aged ami
that bad winter would scatter their
curcnsscs over the ranges thus pre-
cipitluing "a mutton scarcity that n
unS event. can not long be delayed
zone short lamb crop" said Mr
Poole. would put both lamb ana
mutton in the same category as
lobster and terrapin."
MIR. Poole took issue with certain
magazine writer's who have mini
mlzed the cost of raising sheep and
who have. hc asserted, crroneuusiy
said that the western sheep raiser
had an easy time of L., that sheep
On the ranges required no shelter,
mat nature had done everything in
the provision of food supply Tor the
sheep ana thdt the government had
done much Go help nature IN heap
Ing benefits ON the sheep grower.
AN organization composed ot
ment retailers has cnunciutcd. some
what persisiently the same chit
mcra," said Mr. Poole. During
the compilation OF the present tariff
BIN its representative made them
selves distinctly audible in Washing
ton demanding that the western
grower be deprived ~ his bonanza
by Legislative enactment and the
markets of the United states thrown
open to the producers of the world
Admit Canadian sheep and South
American and Australian frozen
mutton. they clnmurod. and cheap
meat viii be- assured
"rut results show that this meas
uro merely defeated the object aimed
nt Instead of increasing the pros
pcctivc supply, IL precipitated Haul
dation of a wholesale character
Both east and west Of the Missouri
river. timid growers. ncediess
alarmed no threats of Invasion OF
the domestic market by Canadian
sheep ana frozen mutton from the
Antipodcs. sacrificed their holdings
IAN through the summer of 1919
a procession of breeding stock troop
ed 90 the stock yards, quitting the
market and demorulizing prices, un-
ul at the inception OF the free trade
era. the native sheep industry has
been almost as effectively crippled
as IL was by the Wilson bin Mean
while Canada, Instead of mitiwaiing
the consumers condition. has been
actually purchasing mutton in the
United states as 20 per cent of th,
sheep Killed in western Canadian
provinces last year were grown south
cot the International boundary
CHEAP abundant corn mutton has
proved an irridesoent dream and an
the free traders hnvo accomplished
n To put Cd Drmp in domestic produc-
tlon
"a prediction not open Co serious
uispute Dr. that mutton supply is al.
minishing and consumption lucrcas-
ms nll the world over ror years
the process of liquidation has ueen
n FUN swing both in North aud
south America"