El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-08
EUROPE DEMANDS
AMERICAN MEAT
DR.. G. G. Young Says There
Is a Great Market
For America.

FOR America.
ant Corona. y. NJ: r. L. Slaughter
| Dallas. Tex: F Norwood Hail. FL Paso,
! Lee Bivins, Amarillo; l. ". Anderson
/ PecOs. Tex
Young Risks Life for KarakuIes-
/ DR.. c c. Young. of Belen, Tex, who
! was on Thursdays convention program
( for an address. "Hybrids in Central
| Asia" sent his manuscript to be read.
I He said he had been called to Wash
| ington on business connected with the
: karakul sheep industry. which he has
for which he had risked everything.
many times even his life. DR.. Young S
address in part follows as read by
! secretary W L Amonett:
Fur Bearing sheep Win Favor.
We have a federal law prohibiting
the Importation Of livestock from Asia,
and Russia as well as Bokhara pro
hibit the expectation of karakul sheep,
and il required some ten years or
steady efforts 10 induce our bureau Of
animal industry to forget the same
long enough to permit the landing for
strictly experimental purposes of Few
head of karakul sheep, but l must say
that after a few years OF experiment
ing by the bureau with these animals
and the issuing of the first bulletin,
il was comparatively an easy task to
secure permission TO introduce the sec
ond and third flocks-
The allied nations in the great war
would have been at the end of their
resources long ago had ii not been for
the United States. At the beginning
OF the war France had 5z5, 600 horses
suitable for military purposes. 1t is
estimated that Germany had go, O00.
We have shipped to England and
France since October, 1914. a total of
SIS. 600 horses and the shipments are
continuing France alone has paid us
SSSe,000.Oo0 for horses We have still
few million horses left, but the
greater portion of the cream has gone
TO Europe and there has been destroyed.
II is our duty to pay more attention to
the breeding Of better horses in the
southwest for they will be sorely need
ed Tor breeding purposes, not only IN
Europe. but in z.merica- and will bring
an unheard of price after the war.
sheep Bound to Bring Wealth.
What has brought up the p-ice on
lamb 10 an unheard of figure in the
worlds history and when did wool
ring the price IL does today? What
is responsible for all of this, If ii is
the world over. and it Will take years
10 remedy this shortage. Therefore. I
say. go into the raising of sheep. for
there is great money 10 be made in
production OF sheep for breeding pur-
poses. for which there will come to |
US an incalculable demand after peace
is established.
The high price of feeo and great /
demand of beef by the armies has |
diminished cattle to an appalling de- |
gree. Often the choicest herds have
been requisitiOned, and this is espe- |
,ially true in Germany. Austria. France
and Italy, Russia suffering even more
than these countries. Nearly all the Q
cattle of Russia were /
raised in Poland and the Baltic prov
noes. and after the invasion by the 4
starving Germans were slaughtered. !
This leaves Russia in q pitiful condi-
ION and she Will look to America TO i
-eplenish her number Of cattle The
nigh price Of feed has caused many |
to part with their best |
livestock, and England will hardly be
n shape TO sell FLOODED cattle to Rus !
ia Where then will Russia Occupy I
ng one-sixth Of the area Of the earth. |
yet her breeding cattle from il not |
rom US?
Argentine Will Get Trade.
What about Argentine doing it? you
VIII ask Well, that country certainly
viii get more than her share Of bust
reeders are producing the finest cattle \
nd other domestic animals in the
-orld and are making efforts to ad-
ertise this fact among Russians Our
reeders are not bestirring themselves.
n TACT they have not even supplied |
Ut state department with the most |
ecesSary data showing the number OF
reeding cattle and horses available.
/
i am sure If all breeders were to
SIX our bureau of animal industry 10 |
Ssist IN compiling certain facts con-
erning the number and prices of avail
bic cattle and horses for breeding ]
we would be met more than |
ali way, FOR can say that after !
ears of experience with departments !
I agriculture Of various countries. I
ave yet to discover a country where |
ne receives more courtesies than right |
ere in our great country"
While yet in its infancy, the rails ,
* OF karakul sheep in the Rio
rande valley will soon become one OF
he leading industries" said John c J
-cNary, of Berino. Mr.. McNary has
large Of large herd Of the foreign {
leep on his ranch The climate of 5
lie southwest makes the raising of ;
lie karakul a success Our company
exerting itself to improve the breed
sheep in the valley"
astersOn Says Association Powerful
r B. Masterson. of Amarillo, Texas,
member of the executive committee,
ates that FL Paso is the greatest Z
", of course excepting his home
'wn- that he has ever visited. Were
not for the power Of the Panhandle 4.
Id Southwestern Stockmen's associ- '
ion" Mr.. Masterson said, the stock {
en- Of the border country would lose {
vice, yes, three times as much stock I
they do today. It is the fear Of the
ers from changing brands and run {
ng off stock from the ranges"
VIII See Contests at Park.
This afternoon the stOckmen will at
nd the Rio Grande Frontiers Days J :