Show PLEDGE AID TO COUNTRY enaire benl enl IRE RESOURCES OF SHEEP AND INDUS TRY PLEDGED TO AMERICA number of f subjects of importance to Flock masters discussed at national Wool growers association convention at salt jike bike silt salt lake city the entire resources of the sheep and wool globing grobli 9 1 industry of america are aie pledged to alio tile i service of the united states government to the end that the great world war may be won on for foi liberty and justice tills was tho the keynote of broad pa 1 sounded by b president frank J in ills annual address before the opening session of the fifty dourth annual convention contention of tile the national Wool growers association in tills city on january 17 that the wool producers of the united states are behind the president ident and the administration for victory Is the sentiment tint that pervaded the convention vent ven tion lon and the thread that ran through every address by officers ind and delegates to the condition convention president treated a 11 number of subjects of ital vital importance to the wool ool interests intel of tile the countr and among aill ig them three ot of national till puit port including aig possible action by tile the government lit in fixing and controlling the price of if wool the federal food ad tra tion meatless day with relation to consumption of mutton and ana lamb mid and operation of 0 f to tle acre holli homestead estead law I 1 iw with its relation to the of the we lesterl sterl states stales opposed government plan lie ile voiced for foi the convention coment lon a sen sell agai against nsf the government fixing the lie price of wool unless it first fart gi grants inta honing hearing to the wool producers on oil tile the in itter taci of cost of production before tit nt tempting to establish it a price mi hagenbarth gave gae issuance assurance that the tit wool producers are aie perfectly willing milling that the government go eminent if war ar nc lie cassity tc alti requires it 11 it price and estal lish control over OLI tile the price pi lie of wool but declared that the woo linan asks the consideration of being heard on oil the subject of cost of ct production be fore such action was aa enlen aken tit ahe wool ool producers lie in said lid did not want ant the government gos eminent to fix a 11 price in ice on oil kvool ool upon advises advices and restrictions of middlemen and dealers dei leib aho vho ho know alno nothing of pro pio jn in i relation elation to afie ane governments day I 1 ta alie to president of tile called attention to I 1 its effect upon the consumption of mutton and lamb and urged that there theia should be it change lit in tills this program lilli would relieve the restriction lesti lotion upon this class of meat me it he pointed out that no mutton or 01 lumb lamb la Is exported loi for military use and that the ex e V poi or tatton tation of oe lamb products pio ducts from tj this 11 13 calill try Is practically nothing leefer ring to the general impression which lil cli went cut out over the country that there was vas a government bit bai upon the con of lambs even outside af of tile the meatless meat lebs day dj restriction president hagenbarth noted that this standing of food regulations regulation had resulted in serious loss to the producer of fed iambs lii cambs nibs ile he urged d that the government eanni ut food administration should take prompt and effective e measures to counteract tills serious idea and to secure and encourage greater dou of fed lambs to relieve the present condition lind and its as it a means of further conserving pork and beef products the homestead law effect of the gio acre acie homestead law upon the sheep growers was treated nt lit considerable length by bi the president of the association ile he saw in tills law and its operation the ultimate uld destruction of the sheep and wo wool ol 01 in austry lu in the western states where tills this law is effective en edthe lind and urged the necessity for government action suspending tho the operation of this measure suie at least during the period of the war the hie fifty fourth annual convention conent lon opened with un an attendance of wore more than 1000 delegates and visitors swift Is speaker louis F swift head of the gwilt packing interests in chicago was one of the speakers of national imports importance nee who addressed the convention mention co urging the necessity for co operation in every way possible between the brodu cers and the pickers packers in the matter of meat food conservation and increase to meet the demands of the war conditions joseppi 1 P cotton of the meat division of the federal food administration I 1 also addressed the convention I 1 emphasizing uie the necessity for consert inythe count countus coun tys rys meat supply dr john it II mohler chief of the bureau of animal industry of the goverline go vernine eminent nt told the convention of the work beling belli done by the federal bureau lit in its effort to aid the sheepy sheep men 0 n in the matli inetter i of increasing the production of shep sheep oad dad wool at tile session ses lon of the notional N association ag I 1 avns raised for the lied C choss 1 by the sale on the convention conventi oil floor of 0 a blooded rain donated for tilts tills purpose by the wyoming association so in ili addition ten dpn ranis rains ivere donated to the livestock by the state Wool growers clation for sale at the rant ram show lit ili salt lake next nest fill fall the proceeds of the sale to be turned tinned over to the red cross among the alst most important of 0 tho resolution was against the use of shoddy in the manufacture of clothing for the military forces of the united states another was a resolution asid asking ng that the meatless day ban upon ii mutton jutton and lamb be removed tit at least temporarily and that the food atio encourage increase d consumption of tills this form of meat fo food 1 as a means of conserving a p pork ork and beef supply A resolution was presented calling upon the national government to sus pend the operation of the nere acre law tit nt least during the period ff f the war one of the most important am resolutions to the wool producers was one protesting against the government fixing it a price on wool anti and inaugurating go eminent control of wool price pi tee unless the producer Is first given a henring hearing on oil the matter of cost and production the election of officers resulted lesul ted in the retention of present officials of the national association including president frank J hagenbarth Hagen baith of salt lake A J knolln knolan of cl aits ty as second vice president 11 1 I powers of flagstaff ariz ail its as vice dent r F D of helena mont as treasurer and lir br S IV mcclura of stilt like lake as secretary addresses were nvere ili made ade lit at the alie afternoon noon I 1 session by minor ferry will C barnes barnes of washington D 0 of the united states forest set se service vice ivice on our national forests J it II edgheill of stilt bait like lake chairman chii liman of the ca committee which dinv inv obligated grazing glazing 14 in hie file southern states W S ayers aveis of chicago chief of the industrial Indus hial department of the lie new orleans great ore it northern them rall railway way tin and A R G of weiser idilio idaho en ca biange and its value for sheep interesting history lii story of the sporadic and its as yet pt unsuccessful efforts to es Ish a sheep and wool kvool g rowing liti ini austry lit in japin was related lit in tin an lid address by dr issa ura boklo japan lapail ii commissioner of livestock for the japanese Ja pinese government gov eminent dr tant mina spoke poke on the subject of 61 in ili tit alio orient IN W G Ills bassel sel president ident of tl alie ie als cousin cousin advance association to told 1 I of tile the visit to last fall of president frank J Ragen hagenbarth barth of the Natio national nul Wool groM is association at that time a sheep and wool company was organized with a capital of tills now has a foundation of breeding bleeding ees and four other corpo rations are organized for similar dvork 1 11 A delfelder of verton wyo spoke poke of the necessity of providing funds for the use of the biological survey lit in the of lf predatory pie datoo animals advocating that a tax of 1 per head he be placed on every dog iv IP tit the country of which lie said there are aie president A K sessums of tit the 0 georgia landowners association said that lie he represented till an organization of more than 1000 men owning several Ili million lillon acres of idle land in georgia federal activity in the extermination of predatory animals was the subject of an all address by E W nelson chief of the biological survey of washington D 0 the animal losses in livestock in the united states attributed to wild animals and rodents lo dents lie he said amount to more than the hie bounty sy system teni lie he declared has proved a eliminating camin losses loses to live stock montana has paid more than in an effort to eradicate predatory prod tory atory animals fro from m the ranges and Is still suffering heavy losses he said bringing intelligently before the convention the necessity of the strains and of paying more attention to the quality of wool produced professor V F U marshall of the bureau of animal industry washington D C vilo Is familiar with the work anti results of the experimental station tit nt Liy amie wyo spoke on oil tile subject of government sheep breeding expert sue n t W orga organization niza tion of sheep raising as it n war ar industry ith government gov aid anti and for tile the support of tile fie government was the keynote of resolutions adopted tit at the closing session of the fifty fourth I 1 annual convention of af the national Wool growers association the opening of national faiks carls for grading during the period of tit the war 11 absolute b so I 1 U ite disapproval of contracting conti acting for wool previous to shearing con condemnation detrina of the use of substitutes for wool in ili soldiers and sal sailors so llois lors equipment government aid by ex p in grazing graying in different sections ind and the utilization of isolated tracts of land and publicity to the statement that it no abstinence from mutton and lamb is asked otherwise than ali IP on meatless dai days were among the important resolutions adopted by bv the conic convention maion appropriation hy by congress of at least st sl for the alie esterl extermination ul nation of if poisonous plants a I 1 federal wn war r tax tn on logs clogs the he funds fund of which to bo be combined with appropriations appropriate ions front from each state for tle tile elimination of stock killing dogs predatory animals more restricted use of grazing graying per permit in ili national nation il forests nix ail e i the lie plen plea for pr cial chil attention on nn the part of the pac packers rs till and retailers to 0 o devise ways and tin menns of making more suitable Mit sul table cuts of ments meats were outlined ili 11 the resolutions |