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Show f&ffi Livestock) gJjjCM'MMICHfO ' S I 11. Pointing out that within . ' last thirty days meat prices increa! j to consumer from 10 per cent to per cent. If the stockmen received " same percentage of increase their V come would show an increase of 0l' one billion dollars. Demands made; ' a restoration of a system of conip;. tive livestock markets existing to 1920. j We are gradually waking up toti 'fact that the agricultural adjusting., i act was intended to benefit the gtu I er but it is up to the grower to ii on their rights. At the most representative gathering gather-ing of stockmen held in many years, members of the United States Live- 1 stock association, at a recent meeting in Chicago, declared the present condition con-dition in the livestock world an acute emergency and called upon government govern-ment officials for immediate action. Declaring that congress has issued a mandate to assist livestock producers, the association pointed out that pres- j ent livestock values are only forty-eight forty-eight per cent of the five-year ' average. j The following recommendations were made to the secretary of agriculture: agri-culture: 1. Prompt and effective action upon up-on the corn-hog program, but on a graduated basis in order not to discourage dis-courage consumption of pork products. 2. Use of public funds to purchase beef products to be disposed of through non-competitive channels and in case of necessity of tax levy on beef or mutton that the funds so collected col-lected be used for no other purpose than to merchandise surplus products through non-competitive channels. 3. That unless favorable reciprocal trade agreements can be made with i other countries and areas of which competitive products such as vegetable vege-table oils, fats, hides and blackstrap molasses are imported, that further restrictions be increased by import duties du-ties or taxes on the articles mentioned. 4. Inasmuch as beef importations during 1933 were 83 per cent more than in 1932 that we immediately stop the importation of all canned beef and that the federal government require the use of American livestock products by all federal agencies. 6. Build up greater consumption of meat through cooking schools and other available means. 6. - Reduce the spread between the amount the grower receives and the amount paid by the consumer. 7. That open competitive channels for the sale of meat fpod animals be served and maintained and that action ac-tion be taken to place country buying buy-ing on the same basis of government supervision as now applies to central market operations, thus establishing a uniform basis for the purchase of raw material manifestly of great importance im-portance to the grower. . 8. Orderly marketing of livestock to be worked out by men of ability and practical experience. 9. The emergency campaign to finish testing all dairy and breeding cattle for tuberculosis including also abortion test, with equitable indemnities. indemni-ties. 10. Immediate announcement of national monetary policy. |