Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-28
AIMS TO INCREASE
PORK PRODUCTION
State Secretary of Agriculture
Plans to Utilize Large
Quantities of Soft
Corn in Ohio

Corn in Ohio
Especial l)-In line with
the United States food adnlinistra-
tion's program of increasing the pro-
duction of pork and as a means Of
utilizing the large quantities of soft
corn in Ohio, N. E. Shaw, secretary
of the state department of agriculture,
and DR.. Theodore A. Burnett, chief of
the bureau of live stock industry, an
nounced plan whereby feeder and
stocker hogs can be shipped from the
Cincinnati stock yards to farmers in
Ohio for feeding purposes.
Instead of permitting the slaughter
Of hogs at 100, this plan will enable
farmers to put them on the market at
300 pounds. On account of the great
amount of soft corn in the hands of
Ohio farmers there is a great demand
for this size hog. The corn cannot be
marketed.
Stockyard hogs always are more liza
BILE to infection from cholera, but the
state has taken every precaution
against the spread of cholera through
the distribution of these hogs.
A veterinarian employed by the
state will be stationed at Cincinnati.
All light hogs leaving the yards to go
out to Ohio farmers will be treated
with hog cholera serum and dipped
into a disinfectant solution before be-
ing shipped.
Farmers interested in the plan are
requested to write the state Yeterin-
airy department, Columbus.
| Drys Jump into Action.
Twenty-four hours after passage of
the federal prohibition amendment by
congress, drys Of this state jumped in
to action to make Ohio the first state
of the union to ratify it.
An immediate fight will be under
taken to line up dry majorities in
both senate and house of the present
Ohio general assembly with view to
ratification at once without waiting
for the election of a new legislature.
Present members are to be put on
record, one by one. Dry leaders will
sound the legislature by personal in
terviews with every member Of both
branches.
II dry majority can be attained
and seems assured, the drys will call
upon Gov. James M. Cox to summon
the assembly into special session to
ratify the amendment and put Ohio
first on the list of states giving the
proposal a favorable vote.
Should the drys fail absolutely in
their effort to have the present as
sembly align itself On the prohibition
side, they then will concentrate their
efforts on a sweeping double-barreled
fight next year.
They will go ahead with their cam
paign for state constitutional amend
ment, and also will carry into every
county campaign for election of g
dry legislature to ratify the amend
ment in regular session next winter.
Calls Ohio Draft Men.
Announcement of an emergency
call on the selective service system tc
furnish men at once for coast artillery
posts has been received by state draft
headquarters from Washington. Ohie
is required to provide 900.
The movements will be completed
in five days, beginning Dec. 19, anC
the local boards from which the mel
shall be chosen are left to state head
quarters. Maj. w. S. Pealer said here
that the men will be, chosen from
those boards which are furthest be
hind in supplying the first rs per cen
~ fIni ho+ o..
from Akron and some from Cleve
land.
One hundred men are to go to For
Morgan, Ala, and 800 to Jackson Bar
racks, La. The fact that the ney
draft regulations become effective be
fore completion of this movemen
does not affect the emergency order
May Get Less Sugar.
The state food administration ha
just called attention to statements is
sued by the Michigan-Ohio beet suga
committee through Ohio sugar broker
that further curtailment of beet suga
in the Ohio and Michigan territory
in prospect.
The curtailment is proposed tha
other sections of the country wher
consumers either have been withou
sugar entirely or have been limited t
the purchase of from one-quarter of
: pound to one pound a week.
The statement says there are man
, wholesale and retail dealers and col
, sumers in the Michigan-Ohio distrit
who do not seem to realize the in
, portance of the food administration
, orders to reduce sugar consumption
Governor Distributes Coal.
Gov. James M. Cox has assume
, control of every pound of lake CO.
signed coal standing on tracks in Obi
, Distribution to relieve sufferiD = is b
ing made hourly wherever ne CO.
can be found The Ohio fuel admi
istration is the distributing agency.
Fulton Wins Suit.
Secretary Of State Fulton, who &C
0 ed as his own attorney, won victor
: in the supreme court when the cou
j held against Howard N. Snedeke
Bellaire, who brought suit to comp
+ Secretary of State Fulton, as chi
i election supervisor, to appoint him
q member of the Belmont county ele
ton board.
Snedeker and George W. Kell
:, were recommended by different mel
: bers of the county committee al
= Fulton contended it was option
- which he should appoint. Kellar w
appointed.
. Red Cross Drive.
4 Ohio Red Cross workers went ''in
the trenches again-this time to
cover the top" in Christmas me
/ bership drive for 100000 more R
Cross members. The campaign W
u end Christmas eve and on that mig
it is expected that every person