The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-05-23
SAVE HOGS
AND YOU'LL
BE HAPPY
Government Meat Inspector i'm Mos
cow Points Out the Importance
Of Raising Animals.

f. A. Barber, veterinary inspector
in charge at the Hagan Cushing meat
packing plant in this city for the
United States government, is in posi-
ton to note the vital Importance of
saving animals in the interest of a
greater food production. He makes
the following observations in relation
to hogs in particular:
Be q Food COnservatOr.
The department Of agriculture APP
peals to the patriotism of the farmer
to help conserve the nations food sup
ply by keeping their brood sows and
thereby increasing the pork produc-
ton:
Record prices for swine as we'll as
feed concentrates have been a great in
centive to farmers to leash in" all the
hogs available. That many sows
have been included is evident from the
fact that on April LIST government sta
tistics showed that there were ap-
proximately 8 per cent fewer sows on
the farm than the year before and
further that this is the first year that
the supply has not increased since
1913.
Breeding SOws Are at a Premium.
Hogs are now past the 16-cent level
in the large packing centers; demand
for pork for home consumption and
for export is keen all of which means
that the farmer who does not raise
hogs is neglecting, in this important
respect, to render patriotic service
to his country, by helping increase the
food supply, and at the same time in
crease his own bank account. The
prospects of success never were bright
err, the demand for pork is in excess OF
the supply; at this time the marketing
of SOW that can be or has been bred
is fairly comparable to killing the
goose that laid the golden egg" Breed
ing sows are at a premium and the
demand for young stock is unprece-
dent; millions of farmers would pur-
chase sows to farrow this coming
spring if they could, but that is al
most impossible. Those farmers who
were fortunate enough to have retain
ed their breeding sows will play an
role in placing spring pigs
on the market.
Meat by the Hog Route.
The meat supply of the country can
be increased more quickly by the hog
route" than by any other The coun-
try's need to increase it's food supply
is great, but prevailing prices alone
should be sufficient inducement for
farmers to raise more hogs.
The hog has no rival as consumer
of by-products and numerous I'M
materials which but for
him would be lost, waste and damaged
grain, kitchen refuse, garnering grain
behind cattle and shattered grain in
harvest fields all can be converted in
to pork.
Economic Importance of the Hog.
Hogs fit into the modern scheme OF
farming on nearly every farm. They
require less labor, less equipment, less
capital, make greater gains per hun
dred and in greater numbers and give
a quicker turnover" of money than
any other animal except poultry.
Preventable diseases costs hog rails
ers millions of dollars annually.
The most important of these dis
eases are hog cholera and tuberculosis.
The work of eradication of hog chol-
era during the past three years has
materially lessened the toll taken by
his disease.
The work of eradication of tuber-
,ulosis has been greatly expanded by
, recent appropriation by congress. |