The Kansas City Stockyards to-day held 47,000 cattle, the largest number concentrated here at one time since 1924, stockyards officials said.
'Many cattleman, it was said, have been forced to' kill unestimated thousands of cattle because the animals were so weak from starvation and lack of water that they had not the strength to make the Journey from the ranges to the rail-
Other thousands have died of the famine and the loss to. western ranches will run into tens of mil-Hons, it was forecast—United Press.
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