The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-08
Kansas Has Plan To Fatten Up
Hogs for Market.
Larger Profits Thru Elimina-
ton of MiddIeman.
SELL PIGS IN OTHER STATES
Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri
Farmers viii Take Them.
In This Way the Feed Will Be
Properly Distributed.
Kansas is to have a pork drive.

Kansas is to have a pork drive.
The drive concerns the bringing of
the Kansas hog raiser and the Iowa,
Nebraska and Missouri farmers to-
gether thru the elimination of the
middle men and commission mer-
chants. 1t means that the Kansas pig
which will not be fattened thru a
shortage of corn in many counties of
this state. will be sold to growers in
other corn states. And in this manner
the piggie will soon become full
grown porker and produce ham with
which to help whip the Germans
Under the plan as outlined in the
state house today, hundreds of thous-
ands of pounds of pork will be con-
served, the market will not be flooded
with understood porkers and the far
mers of Kansas and other states Will
make longer profits The plan will
bring farmers of various states togeth-
er on a common plan and their de-
mands will be met without the pay
ment of royalties to middle men.
Not for Packer.
Letters received by J. C. Mohler,
secretary of the state board of agri-
culture, indicate that many Kansas
hog raiSers feel that they must dis
pose of their crop of spring pigs. ow-
ing to the poor corn prospects and the
lack OF OLnGr 1aLIen1nS lSouS. vi eat
waste and sacrifice will result if these
pigs are sent to the packer. The
packer doesn't want such immature
stuff in the first place. and the world s
need for meat and fats requires that
the young pigs be brought to matur-
ity carrying the largest amounts of
pork that plenty of good feed and
careful feeding Will make possible.
Because of these conditions, the
state board of agriculture addressed
officials in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and
Nebraska to learn of conditions there,
and to ascertain whether the farmers
of those states might not be in posi-
ton to buy and fatten these pigs. thus
saving them from premature slaugh-
ter, and increasing the meat supply.
Responses are to the effect that the
prospects for big corn crops in Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska are
excellent, and that farmers there will
probably want all the young pigs they
can buy Furthermore, inquiries
from these states have been received
by Mr.. Moh1er, asking where pigs
might be secured, in what numbers,
their weights, ages, prices, and ship
ping points. Any Kansas hog raiser
who feels that he must dispose of his
young pigs should at once communi-
cate with the state board of agricul-
ture, at Topeka, giving full inforTna-
ton, and an effort will be made to
connect him direct with probable buy
ers in these other states, thus saving
commissions.
at is not only a patriotic duty to
cooperate in this movement" said
Mohler, but it should mean more
money for both the man who has pigs
to sell and the man who wants to buy
them While the state board of agri-
culture is urging every one to hold
fast to breeding stock and to make the
largest use of forages to save grain,
it is realized that pigs cannot be fat
tened unless there is sufficient guam
tity of grain, and those who are COM
PEELED to sell their pigs should do so
with the idea of placing them where
they will do the greatest good to the
nation as well as bring the greatest
returns to the SELLER