Show IOIE n LIVE IVE STOCK THAN A 4 Y YEAR A AGO GO I er r the first time in many years in information m t shows that all of liv live stock in the United States are i increased in numbers the he real facts contradict absolutely sensational l reports that f for meat for meat and shoes would rise to unprecedented d fig figures res in future r It t has even been beet said that a government t Jl cian Ician pr predicted meat at 50 cents cents a pound and shoes at 1000 within the next two years Such a p prediction is said to be beC J I C unwarranted d Jk- Jk he rte prediction of cent 50 meat and virts shoes 10 was accompanied r f. f e e declaration that France alone has taken from from America horses r within the last ast seven months and that the theat count iQs at war have drawn upon our r sources resources in the same J l 1 a n. n tat n ns 1 o Q tb L umi f of Qt Slates States on January than th there re were a year bethe bee be- be the e Increase being head or 11 j pcr el cr cent So far from c alone having haying tal taken hOl horses es from us the total exl ex- ex l' l since the war war- began have certainly been een much less than thano 0 o 0 and very likely not over Since there are ily horses altogether er in p th the United States the theon the on account of the war is scarcely l alarming Jt t is in fact pointed d out by statisticians hat ci hat S the market value u win irm m horses has actually declined to uc l f that the thee i e is now about 6 G a head less than a y year ar rig agog This decline st it noticeable le in the cotton states and in iri those stat states s which a tl business of breeding horses for sale saje in other sections ti Sai 1 th the number of beef cattle showed an increase 1 per a year ago and an actual increase 1 head hend Hitherto the number dumber cr 9 f beef cattle in ill the UlC q fc td States States' has hils declined ste steadily dily since no There are arc also f c ti cows n the country c u t than H last las Erl t the H inc e s being c c. c jt- jt 01 in c t L Gi however s showed 1 the I r. r ici 1 y t fl 1 g ases 9 G 1 Tg On l r. r 1914 1 i w O tir yit s e. e in n thi col Ol 1 Yi January 1 1 M li h he fact t t at th PlC- PlC L l s l. l for Ol a t day c I rr i- i r ln re rh t tha t o l an demand can m be bei t J I I I Jl demand r J i it I It r Lr j j. j O 11 |