Texas Cowboys Shoot Down bown 1 Thirsty Cattle Sun-Baked Sun Ranges and Drying Water Holes Force Slaughter of Herds FORT WORTH Texas July 27 Cowboy Cowboy firing squads In as Teas are mowing down cattle at the rate of more than 1000 a day to I II I prevent prevent- the animals from dying a a. tortured death from thirst and starvation In contribution to the great national sacrifice Texas has shot more than cattle to death on the range in the last six or seven weeks This represents represent nearly a a. fourth of the cattle bought in Texas by the government t under the he drouth emer emergency ency relief relie plan Official estimate that i if the merciless merciless merci mere less drouth continues for a short time longer it will be necessary y to move at least cattle out of of- Texas to prevent them from perishing on the range The condition of the cattie cattle cat cat- tIe tle is rapidly growing worse worse At the present rate of condemning I I animals it may be bc necessary to shoot with rifles and pistols about lout out of the states state's herd of beef bee and dairy cattle These animals will be killed to avoid the cost of handling and transporting them to central slaughtering plants Out of the quarter million or more already bought under the drouth relief relief re re- lief program those not slaughtered on the range have been killed in central central cen cen- packing or canning plants and the remainder shipped to south southeastern southeast southeast- ast- ast ern em pastures where they arc are to be lc I held for canning late later Approximately Approximately a day are being sent to Mississippi An effort is being ma made e to increase the movement of the animals animals ani anI- mals to pasture to 1000 a day As the drouth continues to burn burnup burnup up pastures and feed crops an i Increasing increasing In in- l. l creasing number of requests came from distressed ranchmen and farmers farmers farm farm- ers to the Fort Worth relief relic office an acute situation confronts cattle owners in some of the richest crop producing and grazing areas in the state v Deep artesian wells wens are failing Inthis Inthis in inthis this section V V. O. O Hildrith near had seven out of 17 wells dry He had 1700 head of 01 c cattle and will be forced to reduce his herd 50 per cent