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Show ySit u a.ti.OlLJ misib- r felt ever since cattle prices advanced sufficiently to give the cattleman a profit the f;rst profits he has been able to make for several years. However, How-ever, the extremely high beef market was short-lived and there is now no evidence to indicate that th's country has a beef shortage. Cattle prices during the past sixty days have worked sharply lower, the result of an apparent plentiful supply of cattle. cat-tle. Present average cattle prices certainly cer-tainly cannot be figured as "high" under any manner of reasoning and certainly not from actual cost of production. ' The Argent'ne beef treaty is ready to come before the senate of the United States for rat'fication. The j American and Argentine state de-1 partments have both agreed upon ' all details but the senate must act! before the flow of Argentine beef; into this country starts. Every American Am-erican business interest, whether di- i rertly involved in the cattle business or not, should bring every possible j pressure to bear on our senators in Washington to defeat this measure on two counts: The real danger of j bringing hoof and mouth infestation, into the United States, and secondly,' the acute economic danger to the greatest American agricultural in- duslry, that of beef production. j An element of uncertainty has developed de-veloped in the cattle industry as a result of renewed discussion of permitting per-mitting Argentina beef to be imported import-ed into the United States. Uncertainty Uncer-tainty is caused in the meat trade because of the threat to beef values if Argentina beef is permitted to come into the United States. From an economic an.le alone, there is no doubt but what Argentina Argen-tina beef, after paying present import im-port duties of 6 cents a pound, would cost the beef cattlemen of the United States untold millions (of dollars through further depressing cattle values. But the greatest danger, in the minds of cattlemen, is the admitted fact that there is hoof and mouth disease in Argentina. While American Ameri-can and Argentine state officials agree that no beef from known areas of infection w'll be permitted to -enter this country, cattlemen ami American veterinarians feel that a country which has hoof and mouth disease within its borders should not under any conditions he permitt'd to s'a'p la of into the Unit-'d States. j Thus the two elements, from an economic and disease standpoint, calico the American catth-men worry and tend to destroy confidence in this fundamental industry that of beef production. I Pressure for cheaper beef pr'ces from tin.- populous, areas has been |