| Show keeping up the meat supply the livestock holdings of the farmers of the united stated are already too low it would be unfortunate if their numbers numbe s be diminished further under the pressure of the present demand for food an early increase of the animal products of the country should be made such an increase must come chiefly through the enlarging of our feed supply by more successful methods of feeding and through more complete control of contagious diseases milk production should be increased fully one fourth by more liberal and intelligent feeding pork production could be increased substantially through the fall litters better care and feeding the poultry products of the U S could be doubled within a year Cont contagious agiou diseases of farm animals take a i toll of more than a quarter of a billion dollars andua annual ly more than half of this loss is due to controllable contro lable diseases such ai as blackleg hog cholera etc farmers should operate cooperate co with the government in the eradication of these diseases |
