100 TTTE WORLD'S MEAT FUTURE 



production and not price that is important at a time like the 

 present. Price control should moan, stabilizing and fixing 

 (trices on a basis which will insure the greatest production, 

 and thus automatically prices will come down. 



The latest returns published by the United States Bureau 

 <'t Statistics in January, 1918. estimate the existing number 

 of cattle in that country at 66,830,000 head, an increase of 

 3,100,000 (or 4-9 per cent) over the previous year's total of 

 63,700,000 head ; and 18-2 per cent more than the low- water 



A United States Shorthorn Bull 

 Champion at thirty-six shows. 



mark in 1913. when only 56,527,000 head were recorded. 

 Sheep were returned at 48,900,000 head, as compared with 

 48.500,000 at the end of 1916. The figures in respect of cattle 

 indicate that steady progress is being made in replenishing 

 the herds of the United States, which had suffered a continued 

 and serious decline for several years prior to the war. 



In other words, the number of cattle on farms is greater 

 to-day than ever before, and this in spite of the fact that the 

 number sent to market for slaughter in 1917 was the greatest 

 in the history of the country. It is not generally realised by 

 the public that the record marketings of both 1916 and 1917 



