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Show (COUNTRY EDITORS WERE RIGHT AND THE Hl'KEAUCRATS WRONG. Several weeks ago a spokesnan of the department depart-ment of agriculture at Washington, I). C, delivered de-livered an address in which ho scolded American farmers for the tuthless slaugUer of calvos, citing cit-ing statistics as to the number of calves butchered, butch-ered, and arguing that Tamers should raise 'these animals anil thus adtl to the meat supply I of the country. Immediately, and in almost (every agricultural section of the United Slates, I there was a protest and explanation by the country coun-try editors who aie in reality in closer touch 'with the farmers than are the department chiefs jiu Washington. It was explained in the country press that tin1 male calves of dairy breeds do not make profit-nable profit-nable beef animals that the grown animal will not sell for enough to pay the cost of production. Tills explains why a latge proportion of the calves are slatighteied, and the other slaughter-lings slaughter-lings were explained by the fact that many fawn-icrs fawn-icrs cither have not the feed or other facilities for 'raising even female calves and hence send them 'to the butcher. Now the food administration has secured reports re-ports fiom the stockyards in nil the principal centers and finds that the country editors were light. The farmers did not ricsrrvn the scolding latlministcied to them. |