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...problem, not everywhere at once but in spots gradually. At first there will appear to be an abundance of beef steaks, veal cutlets, legs of lamb and mutton chops as farmers without forage dispose of their stock. But by 1935 herds will be down to such a point that stockmen will have much less meat for sale. Because of the Government's wholesale slaughter of pigs, pork will be about the scarcest commodity this winter. Where ten pork chops made a 1934 dinner, seven will have to suffice...
...International Joint Commission to which, heretofore, only waterway controversies have been referred. Last week the State Department was happy to announce that the Commission had unanimously recommended: 1) payment by the smelting company of $350,000 to the U. S. to be distributed among the damaged husbandmen, orchardists, stockmen; 2) payment for all possible future damage. It was reported that the smelter is now spending $10,000,000 to abate its deadly fumes. Full of satisfaction, although the Commission's findings must be approved by both countries before becoming effective, said Secretary Stimson: "Every such decision . . . should conduce strongly...
...Federal Government through the years had doled out its domain to its citizens to homestead, to the railroads to develop new territory, to prospectors to exploit. For the asking and a promise to live there homesteaders could, and still can, get 160 acres, stockmen 640 acres. In 1902 when most of the good farming land was gone the U. S. began reclaiming the desert by irrigation. Today some 600,000 persons cultivate 3,200,000 acres of land reclaimed at a cost...
...Wool Growers and Stockmen's Association of South Dakota recently hired two fliers to eliminate coyotes from their sheep-grazing lands. In one day's hunting Charles Orlup and Earl Wilson shot down...
...form of protest, the stockmen blew up 48 vats in Amite County, Miss., during the past few weeks. As a counterprotest the Bureau sent armed guards, and finally machine guns, to the spot. The only casualty so far was the killing of one cattleman as he was about to dynamite one of the vats. The Department of Agriculture is determined to bring about safe and sane cattle-raising, even at the point...