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stayed in the game know that the winnings are indeed modest 

 and that we possess no magician's art whereby we can supply 

 the demand without the prospect of adequate compensation. 



There are many who are rash enough to predict that the 

 day of cheap meat for the American people is past. The dis- 

 crepancies between feed and market values, careless breeding 

 and marketing, larger farm areas and smaller ranges, widespread 

 disease among swine, serious drouths in the sheep producing 

 states, together with adverse legislation, are some of the factors 

 which have contributed to that impression. You will pardon 

 the digression here, but it seems to me that any business or 

 occupation which is so fundamental to the happiness and pros- 

 perity of all the people ought not to be made the goat of modern 

 legislation. The fact of hostile legislation will do more to ac- 

 centuate the shortage of our live stock than all the drouths and 



Secret, grand champion steer, Missouri State Fair, 1913. Bred and exhibited by 



University of Missouri. 



