The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1917-11-22
More Pork.
Sows Must Be Bred at This Time in
Large Numbers in Order to Insure
Adequate Meat Supply.

To win the war we need more
meat. To get an increased meat sup
ply quickly hog breeding must be in
creased materially throughout the
country, and in certain States an in
crease of from 25 to so per cent in
the number of hogs is recommended
by the United States Department of
Agriculture.
The situation is of great import
ance. We must have plenty of meat
for our armies and the armies of the
allies in the field, and sufficient meat
for our civilian population and the
civilian population of the allies at
home.
To have this meat, breeding ami
mails must reproduce themselves so
the offspring will be available for
slaughter in the future.
Hogs can be increased quicker than
any other kind of live stock.
Therefore larger number of sows
must be bred now than in recent
years.
Feed Crops Are Abundant.
In addition to the fact that there
is an imperative demand for more
meat as war measure, it should be
taken into consideration that we now
have an abundance of feed crops
corn( oats, and barley-with which
to produce this necessity increase in
the number of hogs. The demand for
meat is certain, and it will be profit
able to the farmer to market some
of this heavy grain supply on the
hoof
The increase in the number of hogs
J for various States, as recommended
ply the department, is as follows: Mis-
s"2uri so per cent, Alabama 80, Iowa
ch Kansas 25, Indiana 20, Illinois 20,
er Csissippi 20, Arkansas 20, South
TT"'ina Is, Ohio Is, Kentucky Is,
ce ssee Is, Maryland 10, North
at 1o u, 10, Michigan 10, Nebraska
ad H. IT, Virginia 5, and Georgia 5.
es Sc needed for the entire
~ County, IS PERCENT and is covered
~ tSos ~ w thooo aDo scheSle. Other States
ar toam tn,,'a,. 'nUH sO,,,s +Lmed tould breed no
No,
10 Inc result 0nthese \ereases will
at be to provide sHcientI WIN
make the meat tina is abSsllnais 10
x. sential to the feeding of outeiy. es-
be Much Bacon reeded. Wles.
nd Pork can be transported more
in lily and economically to troops irf
ed field than can any other meat. GIN
ms supplies of bacon must go to the b9
,te in khaki at the front. Unless no.
- larger number of sows ;~oera
! a. ~---.~e, .~... -.-..---svis bred, I
tie amount of meat we VIII require."f Ne
'p- year will not be available.
re- The estimated number of hogs
in 100000 less than it was a year a
.r- IN this country; and in the face of II
G. we need more hogs than ever befo,
How can we get them? By breedi,
-. sows at once.
m Expectation of Pork.
o. The expectation of pork produc
.d mas increased since the war began ar
j.. will continue to increase during n
,e length of the war. The foreign cour
. tries are devoting their farming ener
gies to food and feed rather tina
~ livestock production, but they mus
~, nave meat and they must get a larg
" part of this supply from US.
!" During the last three months he
'e price of hogs in the United States las
- been, on an average, more than twce
's as much as the average price for he
IS five years from 1911 to 1915. In WV
II OF the large crop of feedstuffs in
st sight, however, it is believed ,at
e farmers will see the wisdom of tx
e ing every reasonable step to incr.se
the supply of hogs and hog produs.