Arizona republican., 1916-01-26


 along practical lines should be taken
 tc secure a fiVe-day stable market, and
 work has already been started along
 these lines It was also agreed that definite steps should be taken to in- sure-if necessary under government supervision,- complete publicity as to marketing conditions. prices and stocks of meat on hand; and that the work of the bureau of markets should be con tinued and extended so that ways and
 means might be devised to secure more real competition and allow the fullest operation of the natural law of supply and demand.
 This important marketing situation will be presented to you during the convention by Mr. A. F. DeRicqles and Mr. E. l.. Burke members of our special marketing committee. who have given this matter most exhaustive at tention. l am also glad to advise you that the executive committee of the Cattle Raisers association of Texas have appointed a very able committee to attend this convention and confer with us on this matter and we hope that members of that committee will address the convention on this sub iect.
 There is probably no question be- fore the stoclNmen today of greater importance, and 1 trust that you will take definite and appropriate action thereCE.
 The address dealt fully with the foot and mouth disease and the steps ! that haG been taken for it's eradica- 1 ton.
 Public Lands and Grazing On the very important subject of | the public lands and grazing MT 1 Heard said:
 Tt is very gatifying to be able to report to you that there is now a gen. 1 eral disposition on the part of the | sheer men of the grazing states to CO., 1 operate with the cattle men in securing without delay some definite form of 1 federal control for the unapprOpriated, | unreserved public lands which will substitute regulated intelligent use for 1 the present system of indiscriminate misuse. This federal control will mean, if carried out along lines of good 1 judgment, the elimination for all time of the friction which has so often hap pened in the past between sheep and 1 cattle men; the encoura cement of better breeding, the development of additional water supplies. and the pro- duction upon the vast public grazing 1 lands of this nation of a greater amount of animals annually When we realize that. according to
 the last government figures, about | S0000,000 acres is still included in
 tt.is great public pasture of Uncle 1 Sam's, an area nearly one-siXth of the | United States, excluding Alaska, and i greater in extent than the combined area of Germany. France and Belgium, we begin to appreciate that we can no longer trifle with this question or Dat of it's just solution.
 l During the past year many eVi- l dences have been shown of the awak- l ened interest of public opinion in this question. As an illustration of this | awakened interest. was asked by the Review of Reviews to furnish them ar article on the public grazing lands, which appeared in the September issue Of that magazine As a further illus 1 tration of the increasing co-opera tiOn ! between the sheep and cattle men. I l had the honor, on their invitation, to 1 address the National Wool Growers 1 association OF the subject: Tine 1 Public Range and Plans for Its Con- tror at their convention this month ! in Salt Lake City.
 ! Late this spring Secretary Hous- toni who has become greatly interest ed m this grazing land question, made careful inspection in company with MT. A. F. Potter. associate United | States forester. of the conditions eX- isting in many of the grazing states, and seemed impressed with the need of handling the public grazing lands under some system of government control similar to that employed by the forestry service in handling the grazing lands within the forests | Early in June MT. T. w. TOmlin- son, secretary of the National associ- ation, joined me in Washington, where, by previous arrangement, We l had conferences with Secretaries 1 Houston and Lane, Mir. Potter, the | associate forester, and Assistant Sec :etary of the Interior MT. Jones, Tel ative to the adVisabilitE of submit 1 ting to congress a comprehensive and i constructive measure which should ] combine, after the general classified ton of the unappropriated and un- reserved lands, the principles em- l bodied in the range homestead and the Kent grazing bill, which combi- nation bill you will observe was recommended by the committee on grazing and forest reserves of the ] American National Live Stock associa- i tion.
 | There seemed to be some difference | of opinion as to whether the admins | tration of such a measure should be entirely in the hands of the Interior de- partment or whether those features which refer to classification and ini- | tiation of title should be handled through the interior department, and
 the administration of the leasing
 features placed in charge of the ue partment of agriculture. As a result, 1 however, of this conference Tn Wash ingtoa, and at the suggestion of As l siStant Secretary of the Interior MT. ! Jones, I formulated a bill which was later discussed in conference with many members of our association in close practical touch with this ques l ton, including most of the members
 of our grazing lands committee | Messrs. William Kent and Carl Hay den members of the uuhlic land com