Image 33 of El Paso herald (El Paso, Tex.), February 27, 1915, (HOME EDITION, Livestock Feeding Section)

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Livestock Feeding Section Cattlemen s Annual Edition Srturday February lVeatyeventli 1915 Days of Selling Cattle For a Song Have Disappeared Onlv Good Prices For the Cattleman In the Futi THE COWBOYS ON A ROUNDUP ELl MILLIONS ARE AVAILABLE FIJI THE FIGHT OH CATTLE DISEASE Urgency Deficiency Bill Provides 2500000 for Waging War on Foot and Mouth Disease Will Enable Govern ment to Make Prompt Payment to Owners of In fected Herds Infected Area Greatly Curtailed CHEAP BEEF IS III IF P BEEF SHORTAGE IS FERINE WASHINGTON D C Feb 27 Two and a halt million dol lars U now available for f Ight m the foot and mouth disease under th urgent deficiency bill signed or president Wilson on January 21 t p to the first of the year the epi demic had rost the federal government i 19000 Of this sum 1840000 rep i est nts the federal governments share rf the cost of slaughtering affected 1 ertle and reimbursing the owners for heir loss of Which the government I avs half and the individual state the t emainder Figures of the agricultural department show that exclusive of the work in Januarj 101 ITS animals hare 1 en slaughtered