Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-11-24
tRY MNUGANET MuNrmYD

= OL Iu" Mtlirr, who is senior
member of that firm ~ cine
- matugraph producers. aI'u en-
cmy Cus'udiHp-. oil m"u, lhu'h"Ih.
traders. shuwmou aud So''hpb'
farmers. who group their varied ana
profitable activities under TIA" IhIh
name ur 'Th" lot Ranch. we'll
the point -. COT Joe, is smiling i"'-
erantly over a recent dissertation ~
"A leading agricultural Journal "hi'h
tells how one man, "if ms equipment
and maunErmcut are go"n, th'
take care OF 700 hoht
And no wonder col Joe sWII"s.
because on his broad acres "hl'h
stretch between PuncA cay hhp
Bliss. five miles north ana E"ulh aud
twenty miles cast ana "'Sl lh'Ic
are ak months ~ the year whan iWO
mon ARE iaEiug care Of 5000 hOEA.
without a who'll" lot Of equipment
and with MANAGEMENT Whirh II the
acme Of simplicity During ihc re-
maindcr Of the year. when the hogs
are IN winter quarters hnd In me
breeding pens. l, takes about i've
men TO handle them.
This Is the way they manage It on
the Miller ranch. In the spfinRllme
5000 porkrrs are turned into "A IbO
acre field Of alfalfa where they feed,
ps op,y "A hog can feed, until the
corn across the road IL ripe IN the
lata summer Thrn the fences are
let down ON both sides OF tho r0nd
and Mr. PIG is driven across by the
pOrker poker. And again they eat
and wax fat and COT. Joe says its
no trouble u, All for the hogs To do
their own corn cutting and huskInE
Are Now Iupc.
Along about this time the hoBs
are ripe, They are then oH-carTed
and sent TO market and Tor every
single week In the whole year. Coz.
Joe sells u carload Of hogs which
nets the ranch on an average OF
S3,500 per ear.
How he manages 5000 hogs with
out IA single case OF cholera, and
how he manages to have them In
OcuIated without trouble or expense
to himself, Is IA story IN Itself and ioo
long for repetition here. but IL II
Impossible to leave the pigRcry with
out passing on the Information
Cgleaned from Col joe on hog
ology."D that the hog Is not hlthy
by instinct, that neither In he glul-
ton (bccause he Is the only animal
who will not founder hlmselD
and to him daily bath is n neces-
slty. or course. this may be mud
bath. says Mr.. Miller; but then we've
ali heard OF the mud baths OF Mud
layia, where beautiful ladies go TO-
improve their compilations The
point Is, he gets his bath, whether II
he In mud OF water just the same as
the dalntiest bird that dusts himself
along the rOadway--and Tor the
same purpose 49,,
Most hog raisers nVows MT MIL
Ter, keep their hogs In small en-
closure In which they must ehl'
bathe and sleep. while the hog, II ne
had his own way, would nave
but and n ben" like any OF Harry
LADDERS "doch and doris" friends
Hogs and Huns.
It's only mental step from tho
hogs to the Germans, and the Mil
Iers have thirty OF these allen enc
mics helping to till their broad acres
and take care OF their stock.
I'VE got them In the spring" ex-
plalned Col, Joe, when labor be-
came very scarce. | was reading
about the interned German sailors ut
Fort Oglethorpe and suddenly con
ceiyed the idea OF getting bunch
up here to work for us. So l board |
ed a train for the internment camp |
and brought back thirty. And
must say / have never had better
workmen on the place, They earn |
from S35 to 500 a moRth, and keep, |
and there isn't one OF them who |
hasn't n bank accountant most OF
them have Liberty bonds"
They live In a summer camp down |
on the river bank, which was built
by. the ranchers to house. their
troupe OF moving picture people
when, in the pre-war days, they were
furnishing moving pictures OF ron
tier life to one OF the big companies
at the rate OF one week. The larse
basement under the ranch house Is
fitted up as n studio and mere the
moving picture director turned out
his finised product.
AYhen first sighted the Germans
were feeding, and doing II extreme
ly well. in the big ranch dining room
where the Millers feed all the way
form 90 to 400 men daily.
Real Back East" Service.
And speaking OF dining rooms, one
session in tho dining room OF the
beautiful stucco mansion which the
Millers call a ranch house. Is an oc-
casion "ne'er to be forgot The
meal, IL It's dinner time. will equal
In abundance, In variety and quality,
that which could be obtained In any
New York cafe, and It's service--out
there on that big ranch whore roam
the buffaloes and the blanketed In
dams and where no womans mana
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS