Baxter Springs news., 1917-10-18
SAVE THE SOWS
Suggested as a Slogan for Farm
ers Who Wish to Prevent
u Threatened Meat
Shortage

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ture, Is like killing the goose that
laid the golden eggs.
When pork IS selling at lS
cents or more q pound on the
hooi, the hog breeder may be
tempted to turn into cash oil that
he can sell; yet the department
points out that the value of q
brood SOW which will produc such
high.priced offspring is proper
tionately increased and she SHOULD
be kept as the source Of further
and future profits.
Since the beginning of the war
the number OF swine in all the
countries has decreased, and the
decrease has been marked in
some of the belligerent countries.
In France, for example, in the
three years just before January !,
1917, the number Of swine de-
creased 1912 per cent; during
1915 the number in Germany de-
creased S1.47 per cent.
Situation Critical
Breeding stocks are being de-
pleted, and the department says
that the situation is already criti-
cal and threatens to become very
serious if the country continues
to be drained of It's meats. Hogs
furnish meat more quickly and
cheaply than other stock can;
the meat shortage, Therefore, can
most readily be met by swine
production. 1t has been calcula-
ted that the possible increase
from one sow is LOOP pigs in four
years, on the supposition that all
litters consist of six pigs, that all
live, that half are females, and
each gilt farrow at one year and
every six months thereafter.
Cut Feeding Expense.
Another cause of the depletion
of breeding stocks is probably in
the high cost of feeds. While
concentrated feeds have gone up,
the department says that some
of the expense of carrying breed
ing stocks may be cut down by
the use Of green fall forage crops,
pasture, alfalfa or clover hay.
Brood sows may be maintained
in fair condition at comparatively
little expense by the use Of such
feeds. By sowing in the corn,
or as a cover crop on land which
is likely to wash, sowing rape, or
planting a root crop, the cost of
wintering sows may be reduced.
In brief, the department strongly
recommends q campaign to save
the sows as one means of helping
to meet the threatened meat
storage.
The Influence of the Church
CBy Rev. Jno T. Brovn)
Judge Faucet, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, once said: II have tried
twenty-sev N hundred cases and
not a single person convicted was
at that time or ever had been
an active member of any church.
/ have said to hundreds of boys
and girls, l am going to allow
you to 60 free for the time being.
If you will join some Bible school
and report to me every Monday
morning with a signed statement
that you were there ! will not
compel you to pay the penalty
for your crime" He said that
he had never put a boy or girl in
a Bible school but what they re-
formed. Church and Bible
schools are the two greatest re-
straining institutions in the
world. Looking at it from a
financial standpoint it would pay
US to have churches and Bible
schools in every community in
the land. Your criminals do not
come from the church but from
the world. The boys and girls
you see Sunday morning going
to the Sunday school are the
ones that are to become our
missionaries, judges, preachers,
lawyers, statesmen, doctors and
honored citizens. From the boys
who stand on the street corners
and smoke cigarettes Sunday
morning, who tell smutty stories
and go to the swimming pools,
we recruit our thieves, murderes
and vagaboIids.-The Reminds.