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Show NEVADANS CHOSEN TO DIRECT LARGE LIVESTOCK BODY SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. s. The United Stock Growers' association reP- resentative of the livestock interests oi twelve westorh states, decided at the closipg M-aslon Cli its convention! to change the name of the organisation organisa-tion to the Range Stpi k Growers' cun- vention. R. C. Turrit in and Vernon, .Metealf, both Of Nevada were elected p'resldeni and secretary, respectively. (Vernon Metealf was formerly an officer offi-cer In th United States forest service headqudrters In ogden and resigned to organize ihe Nevada Livestock Growers association I. .... Resolutions adopted vA tin- concluding con-cluding session included one following fol-lowing t lie Immediate placing of an embargo on wool ami wool products and the levying of an import duty sufficient to equalise equal-ise the cost of production in the United States with that of countries coun-tries From where importation Is made! plus n compensatory duty offsetting any difference in ex-change ex-change rates. Another resolution called upon congress to enact at the earliest moment a permanent tariff upon meat animals ai'd their products. 1 sufficient to place the American producer npnn an fequajitj American markets with producers whose product is exported to this country; nnd that congress be urged to pass an immediate em- j bnrgo on flic Import ition of meat animals and their products pend- ', Ing the passage of the tariff legislation legis-lation above sugges'ed. The convention also passed a resolution urging upon the public agriculture appropriations committee com-mittee 'the necessity of avoid-Ing avoid-Ing every possible increase In fees i f-ir grazing until such time as existing producers are in a fair I way to avoid bankruptcy." |