Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-23
VIEWS AND NEAR-vlEWs.
HINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
The Wolf mt tho Door-rurlsey. Pay OF
MortSnEe-SOme Hog
Raising.

NatsinS.
we arc regularly told about this
Time Of the year." says Farm Life, in
heart-to-heart talk with it's con-
stituents. ito do our duty by the freight
cnr--to load it heavily and unload it
speedily. so that it may go on it's way
rejoicing to the next man who is wait
ing. There is danger that we minimize
the present freight congestion by
thinking this is the same old trouble.
and that ii doesn't amount TO much.
any way. We have heard the cry Of
wolf good many times, and nothing
disastrous ever happened. But let us
not he deceived. This year the wolf is
really upon tho lock--thc wolf or hun
ger and OF cold. 1t is hard to get
wheat TO the mills, and. perhaps. even
harder to get coal TO the city yards So
let's keep the cars moving. If every
individual does his part the national
problem Of freight congestion will be
rendered much simpler Of solution"
Columbia Tenn. correspondent
furnishes the manufacturers Record
Win this suggestive Christmas story:
When one lone farmer gets for one
livestock waSonload or turkeys from
his place sufficient revenue to pay off
the mortgage on tho farm, that may
be construed as individual prosperity,
TO say the least. Nevertheless, this is
the record OF farmer In "A Middle
Tennessee county. The occasion was a
call from the produce dealers TO bring
in Thanksgiving birds The farmer
placed go head OF live turkeys in his
wagon and drove eight miles to mar
kct. The weights on this load were
figured at the opening market price
"a
went home with n S7o0 check in his
pocket"
Down in Texas there has been or
gan'zcd Il company with S35o,o0o capt.
tai stock. incorporated under the name
of the First National Hog Company. 1t
may be that some such company may
spring up in Virginia, and its Quitting
may he OF interest. oven suggestive.
The general manager explains as fol-
lows
This company's plans include TO-
ono rods oc wovenwirc fencing. which
will he sixty inches high around the
outside Of the ranch and thirty-nine-
inch fencing for subdivisions. Three
ranchhouses and five houses for Next
can labor barns. machine sheds. black
smith shop and corn cribs will be of
the usual construction used in the
South. The two silos will b. rc-en-
forced concrete. The elevators or grain
warehouses will be of concrete con-
struction with a capacity of 10000
bushels OF grain. The watering system,
will consist of 1900 foot a-tcsian
well. with several hundred rods OF UNI
dcrsrcrnd pipes leading TO various
parts OF the ranch"
or course. hog raising on a large
scale and meat packing Is the business
of the First National Hog Company.
The part foreign trade is takin-- in
The winning of the war will be the
general theme of the convention OF the
National Foreign Trade Council. a call
for which has been issued. The meet
ms will be at Cincinnati in February.
Co ordination OF the foreign trade ac-
tivities Of the nation is the main pur-
nose for which the national trade roun-
Gil was formed 1t is Il nonpolitica1
organizations: its function is invcstiga-
tory and advisory. All Americans en-
gagged In. or desirous of entering over
seas commerce, as we'll as firms and in
dividuals. are invited to take part in
tho Cincinnati convention.
Richmond and some other Virginia
cities will be represented in this Feb
ruary meeting.