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Show ' SHEEPMEN SEE BIG YEAR AHEAD ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Jan. 2S W Sheepmen of the far west, facing fac-ing what some predict will b on of the brightest years In their hLs- ernment today to protect their stock from disease and their markets from foreign encroachment , Returning to their homes In 12 western grating states, they, left on the records of the National Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association seventy-second , convention a demand that tha sen- , ate. refuse to ratify the Argentine sanitary convention. Disease Menace A resolution, passed unanimously at the close of the convention here yesterday, declared it "a well established estab-lished fact" that rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease still exist in parts of Argentina, and that any relaxation of embargoes against Argentine Ar-gentine meat would menace United States livestock. The association previously had opposed the reciprocal trade treaty act. It strengthened this stand by urging maintenance of present wool and meat tariffs and asked also that no excise tax of any sort be placed upon products of the sheep Industry. Orasing Rules Other rr solutions Tnarg-ed refusal f the U. S. forest service to permit controlled burning of Pacific coast , brushlands had contributed to an Increased fire hazard in that region ; approved administration of the division di-vision of grazing under F. R. Carpenter, Car-penter, and opposed any reduction in forest grazing allotments except for rehabilitation of ranges. R. C. Rich of Burley, Idaho, was reelected president of the association associa-tion and Salt Lake City was chosen by the executive committee for the 1A38 convention city. F. R. Marshall Mar-shall of Salt Lake City was retained as secretary, and Sylvan J. Pauly, Deer Lodge. Mont; C. B. Wardlaw, Del Rio, Texas, and T. J. Drum-heller. Drum-heller. Walla Walla. Wash, were named vice presidents. |