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Show WORLD FACING MEAT SHORTAGE - Chicago, Oct 10 Shortage of a meat supply faces the world as a refUll of the European war, George L. McCarthy of New York secretary" nf tho American Meat Packers' association, asso-ciation, asserted before the ninth annual an-nual convention of the association which opened here today. "Europe will soxm exhaust its own I food supply and then will drain the I world to feed its huge armies and i helpless populations," Mr. McCarthy Bald. "The results will bo felt the world over. Taken in connection with tho fact that this country is extremely 6hort of food animals, the prospect for an abundant supply either ei-ther in the United States or abroad is not encouraging." Light on tho diminishing beef supply, sup-ply, the waning herds on the American Ameri-can cattle ranges, methodB to be adopted to induce fanners to raise more stock nnd tho effects of the war on the cost of food products Is expected to be shed In the convention conven-tion More than seven hundred rep reaentatlves of five hundred packing and supplv houses are attending the conuuiion E. T. Cash of St. Louis, he-ddlng a delegation which seoka to bring npt year's convention to St. Louis, eald the young men of today have a good chance to got rich rahdng hogs. |