The Tupelo journal., 1917-11-02
TWO WAYS TO
|, SOLVE HOG PROBLEM

we are to maintain our supplies
the allies, says the food admin
% 10 uoaeuIqmoo e 10 'sesInoo
'ator, we have only one of two
we must reduce our consump-
of pork products to the prewar
NAL or better; and second, we
st increase our production. II
discontinue exports, we viii move
German line from France to the
antic seaboard.
Pork products have an influence in
present world situation wider
III one would ordinarily attribute
them. The human body must
e a certain amount of. daily in
n of fat. Whether this fat is by
,ns of dairy products, by vegetable
or by pork products becomes a
ndary question in time of COM
ge national stress, because pork
Sucts to some degree will substi-
for the other fats.
Increased production in pork fats
be accomplished with a great deal
re rapidity than increased produc-
of dairy products and on a much
re widely extended scale. An in
ase in pork fats can also be made
re rapidly than an increase IN
stable fats. 1t appears to me,
refore, that we must concentrate
the increase in the production OF
y if we are to answer the worlds
wing for fats. Fortunately our
lation during the coming year
Is itself to this end.
Due to the blessings of the AL
shty and the energy of u farm
we have secured n of the lar
/ corn crops in our history. We
10 have abundant crops of oats,
ley, kaffir corn, soy beans, velvet
ms, cottonseed and peanut meal,
we will have a larger supply of
feed than normal. Not all of
Be are hog feed, but they will enter
general feeding question by add
to the general pool of feed.
we aggregate all of the feeding
S, and if we substract the
unit Of fodder grains which we
expect in view Of the present
Ding outlook, we will find II
Standing fact which should give
erican farmers pause: We have
Ay somewhere near the equiva-
of 1000, 900 bushels of feeds
e than last year. This is an in
ase OF. nearly rs per cent-for
h we have no corresponding
aber OF animals to feed unless we
1 to increase them at once. In
words, as u animals have not
pace with our increase in con-
Arates, we have much more feed
year than we have animals to
II it. Therefore, if farmers r to
markets for feeds it must be to
feat extent through an increase
Gnimals.
Che monetary Interpretation Of
situation must be that we viii
lie q low range Of prices for feed
u stuffs and, in view Of the Euro
" situation and our own shortage
sogs, we viii have a high average
~ for pork products. Therefore,
pust he to the vital advantage Of
r. farmer to raise hogs.
his situation is one that can be
sly solved by our suburban pop
ion. If every s~uburbanite took
ibis care a pig and fed it on the
sse garbage, he would increase our
supply and do so without call up
s@ur general feeding stuffs. In Ger
ay 100000 hogs are supported
these means. We need a keep
8" movement in this country
a properly cared for pig is no
insanitary than a dog. Such a
vement would necessarily require
lie changes in village and urban
lances; but the national well
would be warrant ample for such
Nurse of action.
ut If l were a farmer it seems to
with the above facts so well
nded-so evidently in the farm
best interest-before me, l
uld, of my own volition undertake
a policy even were there no
Aotic call. Beyond this, however,
Snow vital for every farmer in
limited States who can to take
himself an additional five OF
logs, a few sheep or a few
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