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Improvement of the Quality of Live Stock through Extension Activities

Armour's Livestock Bureau

Abstract

In these days when public consideration of live stock problems is devoted to questions of quantity and surplus, one approaches the question of improving quality with a high degree of temerity. The phenomena of unsatisfactory live stock prices since the War have placed market experts rather than breeding experts in the saddle, and the long-time viewpoint, essential to shaping and defining the qualities of live stock which will be wanted when the hoped-for good times return, has not been characteristic of the animal husbandman with a leaning toward economics.

In fact, no one is subjected more immediately to the scornful charge of impractical idealism than the man who would devote attention today to improving either the efficiency or number of his animals.

The apparent inconsistency of crop or seed loans and wheat benefits under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, of live stock loans and pre-slaughter of millions of pigs, and of appropriations for irrigation projects with simultaneous acreage rentals to take fertile land from production have been pointed out frequently.