The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-12-13
PUTTING SHOTS AT THE KAISER

BY E. E. Richards President Poultry Association
We are going to win this 1t is going to cost treas
billions of dollars besides the lives of hundreds of thou
ands of bright young manhood but shall win To win
this the quickest and with the least loss of lives must
provide the food for Napoleon said can army marches
on It's stomach This means that must be well
voned to reach its greatest efficiency In the times that
passed. could largely subsist the country
through which passed. but there living upon
try through which modern armies passing There is
living upon the Greek Balkan states Saonica that
Lloyd George said time the food supply of
this wars greatest necessities The greater part the food
supply must from the United States not only for
100000 and more boys the and navy but shall have
feed people at home and must also supply the Allies who
are fighting this worlds greatest battles
Mr. Herbert Hoover the nations food administrator asks
for poultry Chickens turkeys ducks and geese Mr.
Hoover pleads as follows
Important Message Every Pouterer from Herbert Hoover
Head of the Food Administration
To the American Poultry Association and Producers of Poultry
and Eggs in the United States.
We short of red meat Our soldiers and Allies
quire than before We advocating in every
household every hotel and restaurant in this country the sub
stituton of poultry for red meat Increased production OF
poultry be effected much faster than beef pork and NUT
ton. While want increase in all the latter, must have
quick response in poultry and poultry products There is
great of poultry feeds from every household and every
farm 1t requires little labor Cannot the poultry raisers of
the country help by providing the increased supply need
HERBERT HOOVER.
What do help this worldwide emergencyP
Every farmer raise and better poultry and do it
far proaby by disposng of all surplus males by keep
ing only the yearng hens and the earliest and best matued
pues thus keeping dead heads sackers to
what should go profitable producers It is
dispose of laying hen puet that is just about to lay
Keep the hen house and clean Repair the roof the win
dows and stop direct drafts that possible by knot holes
cracks Too much glass and enough open front bad
Write state station for needed information
Every state in the Union except Florida and Wyoming main
tain poultry departments which pleased to aid the home
folks with their poultry problems.
Poultry is profitable No of meat supply is rapid
cheap Every pound of poultry produced will help in
sending pound of meat to the boys that fighting
your battles Every should carefully culed flock
of not less than hundred fowls The larger the farm the
larger the flock and such flock should be maintained largely
from economical Poultry viii pick up ninety per cent
of its living from scattered and wasted grains They
scavanges consuming large part of what would otherwise
be lost Poultry will prove valuable in eating obnoxious bugs
grasshoppers and insect pests that would otherwise
destroy food that is valuable To the dweer in avag
city, we'll kept flock of dozen twenty five good laying
hens will prove profitable They be kept from the lawn
garden kitchen and table o all of which makes the choicest
kind of poultry feed with but small addition of grain
During this next every effort should be made raise
and every pound of poultry flesh possible
the easiest and quickest ways of helping increase food pro-
ducton and that what dbooded American do
to help his country during the period of the Every pound
Of meat produced will help put bullet the kaiser Do