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One important factor is food, especially meat and wheat. Only an
unusually favorable season can produce for us as much wheat as last
year. Our meat and forage supplies are low, because in times of food
scarcity, grass crops are necessarily sacrificed. Gentlemen, you can do
much to help increase the meat supply. In developing your ranches to
increase your output, I want to urge as a patriotic duty that you
increase your good pasturage and your winter feed supply as rapidly as
you can. I could not urge this in peace times, because rapid development
is never the most economical. But in this time of stress you cattlemen
can help the nation most by increasing your output to the maximum. There
is no other way for you to give to the nation that will count so much. I
therefore urge that you brush aside all questions as to the economically
best method of increasing pasturage and forage, and to devote all your
capital and all your energy to doing this along any lines that are
sure.

FLORIDA AS SEEN FROM A TEXAS STANDPOINT.

_Address by W. N. Waddell of Fort Worth, Texas, before the
Florida State Live Stock Association, January 9, 1918._

_Mr. Waddell started to working cattle on the Texas ranges in 1875, and
has been in the cattle business for himself since 1881._

_He was chairman of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission of Texas for four
years, and for a number of years has been the Texas representative of
the Live Stock Exchange National Bank of Chicago, and of the Chicago
Cattle Loan Company._

_After spending a week in Florida during August of 1917, Mr. Waddell
returned to the State in November and spent considerable time
investigating the opportunities for raising cattle. This address gives
his views on the advantages Florida possesses as a cattle-producing
state._

In order to understand or to be able to appreciate a proposition of
almost any character it is necessary to approach it by comparison, and
in making comparisons touching Florida I wish to state that I have
traveled over the range of the five northern states of old Mexico; I
have traveled over the southern part of the range belt of Arizona; I
have traveled over about half of the state of New Mexico and virtually
all of Texas, and I find in Florida conditions favorable to the
production of live stock that do not exist in any of the states I have
named, which constitute the great range belt of the Southwest. In Mexico
there is very littl