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farm, the great free open land, the prairie, the valley, the 

 meadow, and there take np methods new, the modern breeding 

 of the lowing herd, the bleating sheep and the swine that 

 maketh the shrill noise. 



America today, is increasing in population so rapildy, that 

 it is only when brongh t face to face with the condition, and the 

 question of meat supply, that the true state of affairs is real- 

 ized. Nothing will stop the influx of aliens into this hospitable 

 and generous land, nothing will stay the enormous increase in 

 population, and nothing, absolutely nothing, will choke the 

 wail of man for meat. 



What will hapjien? And there is not a fraction of a 

 moment left for doubt. Why, America will not be able to 

 supply her growing millions; she will not be able to export 

 the refrigerator and canned meats that have made her the 

 purveyor of other lands, and the commissariat of the armies 

 and the navies of the world, but she will have to buy for her 

 own people, and at such a price as will shake the very treas- 

 uries of her almost limitless wealth. 



The United States of America have been the base of meat 

 supplies for so long that the name is proverbial, but once let 

 the other nations of the world discover that her supply is short, 

 her breeding industry not producing what her craving children 

 cry for, and watch them put the screens on, watch them de- 

 mand the prices, and then watch the result. 



America is capable of supplying her population, whatever 

 that might be, with double, treble, quadruple and more, than 

 it needs or will need for hundreds of years to come, and Avith 

 the name she has earned, the fame she has achieved as a uni 

 versal provider, is it worth the risk to run the chance 

 of being outdone in the struggle for existence over the ques- 

 tion of meat, when she has wi thin her doors, the resources that 

 only need development along modern methods of breeding and 

 feeding to render her position impregnable, even by the great- 

 est of other stock raising countries. America must not forget 



