Meade County news., 1917-11-15
The Department of Agriculture
Seeks to Increase States
Output rs Per Cent.
MUST HAVE HOGS TO EAT CORN
Farmers Must Feed This Years Big
Crop in Order to Produce
the Full Benefit.

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M. Rommel, chief of the animal hus
bandry division of the United States
department of agriculture, who spoke
before the Kansas conference on hog
production held at the agricultural
college and attended by representa-
tive hog producers from all sections
OF the state.
In order to prevent an extreme
shortage of pork in the next year, the
production in the United States must
be increased Is per cent" said Mr..
Rommel. "The department of agri-
culture has made an estimate based
on the corn crop of just how that in
crease should be distributed over the
United States and it is thought that
Kansas should breed 25 per cent more
sows this fall than she did last fall.
There is an increase of 500,000,000
to 750,000,000 bushels of corn over the
1916 production. If we do not have an
increased pork production next year,
some Kansas farmers are going to be
left with a lot of corn that they can
not dispose of.
THE farmer has a big corn crop
and if he wants to get out of it what
1t is worth he has got to keep on do
ing just what he has done in the
past"
Figures were given by Mr.. Rommel
estimating that 100000 more hogs
were slaughtered in 1916 than in 1917,
and that there were 100000 more
hogs on the farms September l, 1916,
than on September l, 1917.
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viii Be Librarian at Camp Funston.
Willis H. Kerr librarian at the Nor
nal School in Emporia, who has been
In charge of the library at Camp Fun
ston since October J., has been ap-
pointed camp librarian, with general
supervision of all the library work of
the camp Mr.. Kerr will receive no
salary.
Wellington Papers Meree.-H. L.
Woods of the Wellington Daily News
has purchased the Journal, his only
rival in the daily field in Wellington.
The list of the Weekly Voice, pub
lished in the Journal office, was pur-
chased by the Monitor Press.
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Motor Car Killed Woman.-As re-
suit of injuries sustained in motor
car accident recently, Mrs. Frederick
Welt is dead at her home southwest
of Atchison.
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Frank Schneck on ParoIe.-Frank
Schneck sentenced to the state peni-
tentiary at Lansing for life for the
murder Of his wife, Jane Schneck, and
their two children in this county in
1906, has temporary parole from the
prison. He and other prisoners were
released on short time paroles to as
sist Leavenworth county farmers who
were unable to obtain farm hands.
Schneck'S parole will expire Novem-
Der 10. He has been in. prison since
1908. Mrs. Mollie Stewart, convicted
of the murder with Schneck and who
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been out on parole more than year.
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To Direct Women's Work.-Mrs. H.
X. De Long in Atchison county, has
been appointed director of women's
work in the Southwestern division,
consisting of seven states, including
Kansas and Missouri
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Old Resident Dies.-Percival Cru
yer, Sc years old, resident of Jack
son and Atchison counties forty-five
years, is dead at the home of his
daughter in Holton, where he was Wis
iting.
Had Bomb Scare.-A stick of dy-
Mantle was found on the Missouri Pa
cific tracks in the heart Of Council
Grove recently. On one end of the
stick was a small wire, while the other
end was broken ds though from a
fall 1t is thought 1t had been wired
to the brake rod of freight or pas
senger coach and become loosened
when the brakes were set.
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Leavenworth Gets Conference.-The
Kansas conference of Charities and
Corrections held a two days meeting
at Emporia recently. Next years
meeting will be held at Leavenworth.
Officers elected were: J. X. Codding,
Lansing, president; Walter A. Jones,
Emporia, first vice president; G. A.
Hosford, Wichita, second vice presi-
dent; NJ Bodenhoffer, Lawrence, sac
retary-treasurer.
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October Broke a Record.-October
1917, broke one weather record. The
twenty-ninth was the coolest night re-
corded in forty-four years. The tenn
perature went to Is degrees, which is
the lowest temperature for October
since 1873 when it went to 161s de-
grees, and 1869 when the temperature
was Is degrees.
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Killed by Fail.-Arthur E. Bucler
was killed in g. fall from a derrick at
q coal mine south of Pittsburg recent
ly. Mr.. Bucler was master mechanic