Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1917 — To Move Cattle South to Save Them. [ARTICLE]

To Move Cattle South to Save Them.

Atlanta, Aug. 27. —To save the beef industry of the United States from a rapid and serious decline incident to the high cost of grains and feeds, the federal government is turning to the south. C. J. Goodell of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States department of agriculture, has been assigned to the southeast and will have other assistants in an effort to move cattle out of the range regions of the west to the semi-range regions of the south. Cattle raisers of the west are discouraged over the outlook, according to Mr. Goodell, and are serious menacing the future of the beef industry by sending the breeding stock to the slaughter pens. Western growers with thousands of cattle have been writing government authorities about possibilities of leasing pasture lands in the south. They are especially intedested in the cut-over pine lands and the greatly increased acreage of velvet beans in the south this year. Government agents in the west are locating live stock that can be bought. These they are grading according to quality so that a buyer in the south can order by mail with assurance of getting what the government authorities represent them to be. Mr. Goodell reports a large number of farmers in the Gulf and South Atlantic states ready to co-operate. A single farmer in south Georgia states he is psepared to take care of 25,000 beef cattle.