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...some years, in corollary to the trust-busting proclivities of President Roosevelt, the pseudo-monopolistic business of Swift & Co., of the Armour Co., and of the other large packers, lay under cloud in the public mind. True, they had corralled livestock, slaughtering and marketing control into few hands, had almost ruled the meat business of this country. Then came the War, during which the quintessence of centralized control over every commodity was the sine qua non of victory, and the U. S. Army Quartermaster Corps found its rationing problems simplified. General Knisgern, Zone Supply Officer, stationed at Chicago, was especially...
Nevertheless, the company's business turnover is exceptionally rapid. Armour & Co. pays cash to farmers for their livestock and produce, and gets its money back from its 500,000 customers in about two weeks. On its huge gross business, estimated at $800,000,000 for the present year, credit losses are remarkably small...
...Department of the Interior has recently placed the following restrictions on all prospective settlers on irrigation projects : They must have vigorous health, at least $2,000 in capital (or its equivalent in livestock, farm implements, etc.) and two years' experience in farming, preferably irrigation farming...
...Hagenbarth, stockman, was the first witness. Said he: "The livestock men demand that their rights on the nationally owned ranges shall be recognized, defended and protected; and that such rights shall be based on established priority and preference at the time the law now in force was passed ... 20 odd years ago." He continued that at that time the rangers had "just put their heads into a noose" when they concluded with Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, then Chief Forester, an agreement whereby the users of the range pledged themselves to pay "a fee sufficient to bear the cost of administration...
...committee learnedly cogitated the question of trees versus livestock; and then moved with dignity into the leafy shade of the Yellowstone National Park...