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...does pork, lard, eggs, beef. Fat corn-fed steers have risen in the past fortnight from a $8.50 per cwt. to $9.50. Top price for hogs last week was $5.60, best level in three years. Meanwhile, however, the stock yards have been overrun with gaunt, stumbling beasts which stricken farmers can no longer feed, and this is why the price of ordinary meat-on-the-hoof has gained little. Government purchases of relief cattle may run as high as 12,000,000 head of livestock (including sheep and angora goats), more than one-half of which will be slaughtered. Such...
...previous acreage control measures, we were immediately able to plant feed crops . . . and purchase . . . the herds of drought-stricken cattle. . . . Since there are 7,000,000 head of cattle in the country in excess of the number needed to maintain an adequate meat and milk supply, even this disaster is not unmanageable...
...last week over 40,000 cattle were unloaded in Chicago's stock yards. Half of them belonged to the Federal Government-emaciated beasts shipped from drought-stricken farms where neither food nor water was left for them (see above). As they were driven down the chutes from the cars some wobbled weakly. They were shot and their skinny carcasses dragged away for conversion into tallow and fertilizer...
...Government, trying to save the cattle of drought-stricken farmers, the partial loss of the great Chicago stock yards as a shipping point was serious. For the packing houses it was less serious. Even in ordinary times the packers buy some hogs direct from concentration points in the cattle country. Shipments of "direct" cattle, private and Government owned, continued and soon began to increase. Chicago's commission men, who normally receive the bulk of the cattle and over half the hogs on consignment at the stock yards, virtually shut up shop. Their own livestock handlers would have struck...
Upstairs panic-stricken State functionaries tore about with flying coattails, locking the thin, white doors that were now the Cabinet's sole defense. Swinging rifle butts like battering rams, the invaders crashed down door after door, advancing slowly and methodically through the vast building and making up batches of hostages as they went. "This lot is to be shot first, if we are attacked. That lot next...