The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-10-22
Increased Consumption Abroad
and Short Supply In Amer
lea Taxing Resources,
They Say.
URGE GREATER PRODUCTION
Beef Barons Say Time Is Com
ing When ALI Industries Will
Be Under Federal Sup
ervision.

Chicago. Oct. 20.-Shortage OF a meat
the European war, George L. Mccarthy,
secretary of the American Meat Pack
ers' association, asserted before the
Ninth annual convention OF the associa-
ton which opened today. Europe will
o exhaust its W food supply and
then will drain the world to feed Its
huge armies and helpless populations.
be felt the world yer. Taken n con-
nection with the fact hat this coun-
try Is extremely short of food animals,
the prospect for an abundant supply
either in the United States or abroad Is
not encouraging"
Light on the diminishing beef sup
ply the waning herds on the American
cattle ranges, methods to be adopted
to induce farmers to raise more stock,
and the effects of the war on the cost
Of food products, Is expected to be shed
at the convention.
More thar 700 representatives OF 500
packing and supply ouses are attend
ing the convention.
L. II. Cash, of st. Louis, heading a
delegation which seeks to bring next
years convention to st. Louis. said the
young men of today have a good chance
to get rich raising hogs. -.
Among subjects for consideration Will
be a request for the government to
make an appropriation to stamp out
tuberculosis in cattle and have the tax
removed from oleomagarine.
Forsees Federal Supervision.
James Craig, jr., president of the as
ISOLATION predicted the time when ev-
cry industry in the country would be
under government supervision.
THE most notable developments OF
the last year." said he, 'in respect to
the supervision and control Of our
business by department officials prob
ably are first the new life that has
been put in the federal food and drug
law by the energy and enterprise Of DR..
Alsberg, of the bureau of chemistry,
and second, the avowed intention OF
the bureau of animal industry to CO.
operate with him in the enforcement OF
this law"
The speaker said the enforcement of
this law must be commended for the
elimination of unnecessary hardships
on the packer. Conflict Of state law,
however, he said, vas a castastrope.
James L. Cole, of Chicago, said large
areas or which cattle might be raised
lie idle, that more and more farmers
are turning their hay n corn directly
into cash instead of feeding live stock.
He added thai one reason for this was
hte difficulty Of financing breeding
operations and suggested that postal
savings on which the government pays
2 per cent could be loaned to cattle
men at 8 per cent and that this would
revive the waning industry within 10
years He attacked the law which gives
certain water rights to homesteaders,
asserting that for every water course
given over to the private ownership OF
q homestead. the country Is deprived
of 1000 cattle.
The removal of the tariff tai from
cattle in the hope of augmenting the
supply, the speaker said had proved a
| joke. Disease has largely reduced hog
| production, he said.
The report of the executive COM
| mittee touching animal disease declared
that 5000, 000, 900 worth of livestock is
lost annually through ~preventable
diseases. The government, however, it
was stated, was doing excellent work in
combating this waste.