The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-09
CATTLE FOR THE SOUTH.
Plan Evolving to Redistribute the
Country s Live Stock.

OF immediate and surprising interest
To the people of South Carolina is the
announcement from Washington OF a plan
to effect a redistribution Of the livestock
herds of this country along the most
productive and economic lines That tins
announcement may well be Of the greatest
Importance to MS is apparent at once when
it is learned that the government proposes
to take advantage Of the unequaled winter
grazing lands OF the South and Is consider
ing a plan for tile transfer of thousands
of head Of cattle, sheep, and hogs from
the big Western producing districts To
farms in the Southern states.
The undertaking has passed the en-
brvonie stage Food Administrator Hoo
yer and Secretary OF Agriculture Houston
have already announced the personnel OF
general Live Stock Industries Com
mittee which IS charged with the mob'h-
zation ct the nations live stock ais the
next step in the movement ion the wartime
conservation of food products. It Is stated
positively that the committee viii further
a plan for the transfer Of live stock in
large quantities to the South, and that
agents OF the department OF agriculture
viii 60 to Texas and the South Atlantic
states to make arrangements tor the trans
portation OF thousands head OF cattle from
the dry lands Of the Southwest to the
Winter grazing regions of the Southern
states east of the Mississippi Details OF
the plan are not yet available. but It is
said that under the arrangement planned
small farmers may place orders tor live
stock with county agents OF the agrlcul-
tural department, and that Give stock
exchanges viii assist IN the movement
without charge to purchasers.
4 Though tine precise procedure to be
employed is not vet clear, it is evident
that this Is proposition which may
promise big things for the South; and
there is no portion OF the South Wine,
should benefit from it more than the
coastal region OF South Carolina. Here
we have some of the finest grazing lands
in the world aud the one serious impedi
ment to the building mp OF a great live
stock industry here, the cattle tick, is now
fortunately under control. One of the
principals purposes of the government 5
plan for redistribution of the country
herds i. to effect as great a saving as posi-
BILE IN feed: and with that consideration
prominent in the live stock committee
mind coastal South Carolina should appear
TO ii an especially desirable location fo,
some of the Western herds There is n,
! lack Of Winter feed here Nature supple.
many elements OF il in vast abundance
: There can be no doubt that the govern
! ment would view with the greatest favor
any movement on the part Of the farmers
and other interests of this section to bring
live stock here in large quantities.
= The matter is one that ought to be taker
up by the commercial agencies OF TIN
section at once with view to investigat
:. ing its practical possibilities, 50 that. j
J these are as promising as seems to be tn
. case. immediate action may be taken 1
is a long time since any situation has devel
! oped which seemed on its surface at an.
rate, to afford a better opportunity to thi
region With our great tracts OF unuse
land admirably suited for cattle grain
it NAV well be possible by energetic am
!, iar-sighted action to create in a few week
or months great new industry in coasta
/. South Carolina. 1t would be an indtstr
: which once established would be here t
stay. and II wuold 90 far toward solvin
many Of our low country problems, incluC
ing, for example, that Of the boil Weevl
i There Is no community anywhere whic
+ should take keener interest in eNplo
&c ing the possibilities Of this move Of til
Y Government than Charleston Charlesto
News and Courier.