Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1914 — PREDICT BIG MUTTON FAMINE [ARTICLE]

PREDICT BIG MUTTON FAMINE

Wool Growers Told Scarcity in Next Five Years Wilt Become Very Acute. Salt Lake 1 City, Utah. —A mutton famine was predicted here by J. E Poole, editor of the Chicago Livestock World, in an address before the National Wool Growers’ association, meeting in annual session. During the next five years, he said, the scarcity would become acute. Mr. Poole said that for the last five years the west bad been marketing ewe lambs in the same reckless manner as it sent heifer calves to the butcher, from 1900 to 1910. Good authorities. he said, estimate that 80 per cent, of the ewe flocks of the west are over aged and that a bad winter would scatter their carcasses over the ranges, thus precipitating a mutton scarcity that in any event cannot long be delayed. “One short lamb crop." said Mr. |*oole. "would put both lamb and mutton 1n the same'-category as lobster and terrapin.” :- y ~ . Charles A. Butler of Chicago, in an address on the legal relations of sheep shippers and railroads, declared that all the live stock contracts hp bad ' seen carried .provisions contrary to the federal laws.