Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-04

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There will be ~ large or possibly .
larger number than usual Of brood
sow1 but there probably will not bs
so many pigs a. in other years. Hos
raisers. like other people, are extrava-
giant with what they possess In plen-
ty. and this year the plentiful article
Is soft corn. Tankage and millfeed
and other feeds usually relied upon to
balance the corn ration are. and Will
continue-to be- high in price and many
will use them sparingly, II at all, and
strictly soft corn diet will never re-
suit in satisfactory pig crop"
Another man lamented the fact that
the packers In the market always
have taken advantage Of shippers on
days Of heavy receipts and wants some
assurance that his increased offerings
will not be the means Iof price cutting
that would necessarily put him out Of
business as hog raiser. He will ne
deavor to raise about the usual num-
Der next year.
One prominent pork producer was
away from home but his wife was in
formed as to his ideas and Intentions
He wants to know what to figure as
the price OF his product. Insists that
other business men know often months
in advance just what an article they
handle will cost them and what they in
return are to receive for it and that
they couldn't long remain in business
II this we're not true. The farmer,
however, is expected to trust to luck
and go into the hog raising business
with all his might regardless Of con-
sequences. What this old farmer IL
actually doing is getting ready to raise
every pig he can, leaving it to Uncle
Sam to see to 1t that he be given a
fair chance for reasonable profit and
pay for his work
Another farmer who has raised and
marketed $4,000 worth Of hogs in the
last twelve months Is preparing to
duplicate the feat in the coming year.
There is heard everywhere the state
ment that the country needs the hogs
and the motive Of the farmer in salts
flying the need y not entirely 4 matter
OF profit SO far as this section of the
country is concerned.
George Hafkey a farmer in the
Chester neighborhood. has two silos
on his farm. He fills them at the
usual time, feeds out one and then re-
fills It with stock fodder, leaving the
other untouched until spring He be-
iievss that the second filling. II prop
erly made, that is, il enough water is
added to the corn as It is put into the
silo Is as valuable for feed as the first.
These silos have capacity Of $50
tons each, therefore the owner Is en-
abled to put into them the enormous
amount Of $50 tons Of feed each year.
An object lesson on the feed raising
possibilities on an Iowa farm.
A news item in the Times Republic
can recently told how a Poweshiek
county boy. drafted for military serv-
ice had to be almost carried up the
stairs, to the examination board and
who succeeded in so impressing the
doctors that he was dismissed with
little further attention. but that
very soon afterward he was found
to be working in the fields. The
matter was reported and the
young man taken to Camp Dodge.
A few days ago visited the boys
nome. The young man was there in
a chair bv the stove. His mother
brought the exemption certificate OF
the Camp Dodge examiners It was
AMI final. The appear
ance Of the boy. the story Of the par
ents and the certificate Of exemption
left no doubt in my mind that the news
item. doubtless sent to the paper with
no intention ~ nf,r{o~ - 100000
man. nevertheless worked great In
Justice AS no names were mentioned
in the article none win be given for
the reader who recognized the identity
In the news special will have no dif1i-
Guilty in doing the same thing here.
c e. WILSON.