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the way and lead them safely in it.

And now, gentlemen, we will proceed to the program our Executive
Committee has provided. I hope that our meeting together, the messages
which will be brought us from abroad, and the various discussions in
which we ourselves shall engage, will serve to hearten us for our work
and help us to feel, amid the toil and perplexities of our daily task,
that in providing a more copious supply of food for the world, in
causing two blades of grass to grow where one grew before, and in
transforming these blades of grass by the mysterious and wonderful
processes of nature into the thoughts and loves of men and women, the
orator's speech, the poet's song, the statesman's wisdom, the soldier's
fierce energy, the mother's brooding care, and the babe's new life, we
are doing our part to support and render more rich and worthy this
wondrous human drama and are partners with God in the work of his
earthly kingdom.

FLORIDA SUITED TO EXTENSIVE CATTLE RAISING.

Texas Ranchmen Declare Conditions Ideal for Cattle, Sheep and Goats.

The impression made upon a prominent Texas ranch owner who recently
visited the great cattle ranges of Florida was that Nature has been too
good to the cattle industry in this State to encourage improvement in
the crude methods of breeding and handling stock which have been in
vogue for years, for the cattle owners have made money without trying.

Among those who spent a week during the latter part of August inspecting
range conditions were M. Sansom of Fort Worth, president of the
Cassidy-Southwestern Commission Co., director of the Federal Reserve
Bank and owner of large cattle ranch interests. * * *

Mr. Sansom expressed his impression of Florida's opportunity for raising
cattle in these words:

"The only trouble you have in Florida, Nature has been too good to you.
If it had done half as much for Texas the Government officials would not
now be worrying about the future meat supply for the United States and
our Allies. I have seen Texas when the cattle were no better than the
grade I have seen on this trip. We started twenty-five years ago to
improve our herds and stayed with it, until today we furnish some of the
best breeding and feeding cattle for the Northern States.

"Florida now has very great advantage over pioneer Texas, as you can get
some of our good breeding stock and make rapid progress breeding up your
herds. The Osceola Cattle Co., in Osceol