Show i STOCKMEN HIT BY HOMESTEAD LAWS What Is la to become of ot the stockman stockman stockman stock stock- man is the question put by S. S W. W McClure secretary of the National association with offices offices of of- flees in Salt Lake More than acres ecres of land throughout the United States was open to be homesteaded a few months ago Sixty million acres of this has been taken up In the last three months according to Mr McClure This land is being taken up by people people peo pee pie who will raise stock on OD a very small scale if at all said Mr McClure Mc Mc- Clure At this rate what Is to become of the man who would raise thousands and thousands o of ot head of ot sheep or cattIe cattle cattle cat cat- tle tIe to feed the nation on this tills same land One section of ot land will produce grazing the year round for fifteen head of cattle or seventeen head of af sheep Several thousand head could be raised and marketed while the small farmer fanner Is tilling this land and getting It into shape to produce a crop which will yield very small profit to the man and to the nation Much of this land which Is being taken up If given a thorough examination examination examination nation will be found good for nothing but grazing he continued Mr McClure suggests that If a commission commission com corn mission were appointed by the president prest- prest dent to Inspect all homestead lands and determine beyond a doubt whether er it is fit tit for agricultural purposes It would greatly simplify matters a few years hence and at the same lame time net the government not Dot le lest b than a year |