A SERIOUS SITUATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1009, 27 December 1910, Page 8

A SERIOUS SITUATION.

\ / : AMERICAN. BEEF SHORTAGE, i.'.-' "A hard winter followed by a dry sum- '' mer played havoc with the new order of j ;■■' beef-making in the 'West," says the "Breeders' Gazette," Chicago. "Mixed herds of the small rancher and the settler have been consigned to slaughter., ; Either extreme could have been weathered I by some hook or crook—either the cruel \ '.'■ . winter, or the blighting summer; but in !' seasonable sequence they, shook loose all ; holds. i ■ i;--: "The-situation is serious. One of the ■best-posted men? on western conditions, .-.-. asked. in this office recently what the I West would do for cattle-now that so. • ; manyjsmall herds have been cleaned up, i answered laconically, 'Do without.'. A ■ more menacing situation would be hard i.' to imagine. The few farmers who have I : profited by. the high prices for beef do-not " • appreciate Vfanything limits real weight - '"''■..- the danger'that comes from public.abj ' stinence fromVm'eat.':Tho vegetarians-have i riot neglected to-:'take ..advantage of', the ;.'■■'/. situation. ; . Journals' 1 and magazines of i' . . great circulation aro congratulating the [■•■':.• public-on learning to'live, without meat, i ''' ' and declaring that too much meat has i . entered into the dieta;ry of our people. ".' This teaching strikes at the fundamentals f' -. lof American agriculture. It is dangerous • 'beyond description. '■ ;..'-.