Arizona republican., 1917-12-05
OFFICIAL CALL IS
 ISSUED FUR LIVE
 STOCK GATHERING

Official call for the twenty first an- nual convention of the American Ma tional Live Stock association to be held at the convention hall, in the Utah Hotel Salt Lake City, January IA, 15 and Is, has been issued by President L T. Pryor of San Antonio. Copies of the call are being sent out from the office of Secretary T. w. Tomlin- son, at Denver. to all members of the association, to all other live stock as sociatiOns and to stockmen generally. Notice is also given in the call that the fifty-fourth annual convention of the National Wool Growers associa- tion will be held in Salt Lake City inn mediately following the closing of the livestock convention. The Wool Grow CTS will be in session three days, Jan uary IT, IS and 19. Attention is also called to the fact that the National Western Stock Show will be held in Denver. January 20 to 26 inclusive.
 In order that there may be a repre- sentative attendance of all persons in terested, railroads are arranging to publish one and third fare rates from practically all points in the west. The dates of the sale are so arranged as to cover the attendance at both conventions. The final return limit has been extended to January 2s, so ss to allow a trip to the Denver stock show if desired.
 Of particular interest to stockmen of Arizona is the announcement that not only can the trip be made at the re- duced rate either via California or Denver. but that the usual winter tourist rates will he effective from Arizona and Texas points, which will nprToit ri Salt Lake City, and the return by the way of Denver to point of origin, or vice versa. This would afford an ex- cellent opportunity to see much of the country and not to double back upon the route al any point.
 F.. C. Parsons, 1923 Kearns building Salt Lake City, is chairman of the committee on arrangements and he has agreed to secure hotel accommodations for all who attend the conventions. In addition special entertainment for all the visitors is being arranged by the committee of which MT. Kearns is the head. Headquarters for the associa- tion will be established at the Utah Hotel, where Secretary Tomlinson will have temporary office during the convention and where the stockmer are requested to register and receive badges. The executive committee vii meet in the committee room at the Utah hotel at 10 o'clock Monday morn ing, January IA. Meetings of stand. ing committees will also be held or January IA and during other days oi the convention.
 The subjects to be considered by tho stockmen in convention cover a wide and varied range. They include, ac- cording to the executive announce ment:
 Efforts of our government to stim- ulate the production of live stock, anC what live stock producers should do policy of the United States Food Ad. ministration toward the protection o producers; effect of the war on tht stock industry; better utilization of animal feeds, so as to produce mea animals at a lower cost; terms of tn, federal license of meat packers; in VestigatiOn of the meat industry nov being conducted by the Federal Trad, Commission; work of the Bureau O Markets in distribution. of Livestock and meat statistics; livestock condi | tions in foreign countries; necessit, | for an accurate federal census of liv
 stock; effect of the drought in Texa | and the Southwest: the cotton see, meal combine, and what steps shoul,
 be taken by the federal government t | regulate the supply and price of cot ton seed cake and meal; land designa tions under te 640-acre stock -raisinj | homestead bill: reservation of driv
 ways and water holes; classification | and disposition or control of the re
 maining public land not desiganted a applicable to filing under the 640-acr
 law; some proposed changes in tn | grazing regulations on the nationa | forests; extermination of predator wild animals; poisonous plants; wor
 of the Bureau of Animal Industry i
 the eradication of ticks; inspection O
 meat, hides, and wool from foreig
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