Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-12-26
men ARE SPENDTHRIFTS
WOMEN DO NOT wAsTE-HOw WE MUST
CONSERVE
Dr. Porter Tells of the Problems for Solution
in the War-Eeonomy and Better Meth
DDS Necessary

Editor Censor: There is much talk about
conservation these days and much money is
the most wasteful and extravagant nation
on earth. They used TO say that forty millions
Frenehmen could live well on what forty
millions people wasted Our women were late
ly educated in the art Of canning food, and /
hope the cellars well stocked with canned
meats fruits and vegetables. Later came the
Hoover pledge cards ] sent to Madison the
three pounds of cards delivered here and be-
leve many ladies failed to send in their cards,
and yet | believe those women and nearly all
other women in this county are well Hoover
lied and saving in every way they eal-
Women have always been better economists
than men. There are thousands of men in our
county who are needlessly burning under their
noses. from six to sixty cents every day.
enough to save from starvation some poor child
In Belgium. Where is the woman who wastes
money like that Yet not a word from HOoy-
err about this terrible waste. Not only that.
hui thousands Of the richest acres of Vernon
county are devoted 10 raising, not food crops,
but the most deadly plant that grows. The
Egyptian government says to the Arab farmer,
You must not raise tobacco. Your six mil
lion acres needed for raising food for your
eleven million people" II seems to me that
in this crisis when we are expected 70 feed
half the world our rulers should be as wise as
those of Mohammedan Egypt.
! walked four miles and back over the coun-
try recently | saw milch cows grazing on the
frozen stubble; pigs six and seven months old
weighing 20 to so pounds others as old that
weighed over 200 pounds acres of corn stalks
standing in the field. that in the silo would
have made 80 cent butter, 10 cent milk and As
cent eggs dozens of calves and yearlings. poor
and pot bellied filling up on the dead grass and
corn stalks. Some silos had not been opened
Hoover called for a meatless and wheatless
day and he will get them. But why don't the
powers that be get after the other end of the
problem The German would do II. Say to
the farmer, THE place for those mich cows,
these cold zero days, is in a warm clean barn
The nation needs more milk butter and cheese.
and you viii get more if you give them comfort
and don't let them adorn the dung pile all day.
Let Hoover tell the farmer. IF you cannot
feed a respectable pig in seven months 70 make
il weigh lao pounds you must quit raising gs-
You cussei fool the pig let alone and allowed
20 hunt food enough can double that weight
The nation needs pork and you must do better
The time TO put growth on to a pig or any
other animal is during the growing period of
that animals life" Then that pig is entitled
TO a warm pen and good bed Of straw. There
are thousands of poor pigs tonight shivering
out in the frosty ai- without good bed or shell
ter, losing in weight. and eating half more
corn. How many pounds Of pork are lost and
how many dollars worth Of barley are wasted
in Vernon county because Of this cruelty
There is great loss in feeding an Unbalanced
ration TO all farm animals Iae manure 5
piled M. its nirtogcn goes heavenward and
another great loss occurs. That manure Is
needed 20 raise big crop next year. ! wish
they could Hooverize every stock owner 50 he
would see TO il that every poor dumb animal
these bitter cold days and nights. third less
food will be needed by such animals. Salt the
mich COW tablespoonful daily and she gives
has a good warm stable and bed Of straw
you ten per cent more milk.
Why not prepare the hens for winter lay
ing7 My wife has already got one pullet lay
ing She says there is profit in keeping
hens all winter unless they lay, They get
boiled onions and onion tops in mash 70 kill
vermin you know. Onions once week,
good dish. viii Kill pin worms, tape worms.
lice and every other inhabitant in and On
chicken. child or pig. Diphtheria prevails and
onions eaten might be a better preventative
than the bag Of asafoetida and sulphur | wore
as "A rosery for months in childhood.
See this, dear reader. has 20 do with conser-
walton. Let us be saving Of what produce,
hut let US feed better. shelter the stock better
and do all we can to produce more meat. more
milk, eggs for the world is starving and
the farmer is the savior Of the race
& v PORTER