The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-12-05

flames e. Hoover, geOlogist, form
er High Point boy, who has located in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is doing well,
recently visited Miller Bros ranch as
a guest of Mr.. Miller, sends the editor
a write-up of the wonder "101" ranch
which he thinks will be read with in
terest by those who in times past
have witnessed Miller Bros. Wild West
shows which only give faint idea Of
the magnitude of the great "101"
Ranch ''at home" The article follows
,-Editor7:
(By Margaret Murphy
Col Joe Miller, who is senior meme
ber of that firm of cinematograpL pros
ducers. alien enemy custodians, oil
men, ranchers, traders, showmen and
scientific farmers, who group their va
ried and profitable activities under to-
firm name Of "Tne 1O1 Ranch".-Wes
the point is, Col. Joe, is smiling ISL
erartly over a recent dissertaf on inS q,
leading agricultural journaE whiElS
tells how one man, eff his eQJ ats snt-
and MANAGEMENT are good" can G.
care of 200 hogs.
And no wonder Col. Joe smiles, be-
cause on his bread acres which
stretch between Ponca City and Bliss,
FIVE miles north and south and twenty
miles east and west. there are six
months in the year when two men are
taking care of 5000 hogs without a
whole lot of equipment and with man
agement which is the acme Of sim
plicity. During the remainder of the
wear. when the hogs are in winter
quarters and in the breeding pens, it
takes about five men to handle them.
This is the way they manage it on
the Miller ranch. In the springtime
acre field of alfalfa where they feed,
as only hog can feed. until the corn
across the road is ripe in the late
summer. Then the fences are let
down on both sides of the road and
Mr.. Pig is driven across by the pOrker
poker And again they eat and wax
fat, and Col Joe says its no trouble
at all for the hogs to do their own
corn cutting and husking.
Along about this time the hogs
are ripe. They, are then box-carred
and sent to market, and for every
single week in the whole year, Col.
Joe sells a carload of hogs which nets
45he ranch on an average OF, SSsagQ gpaeeF plaes
How he manages 5000 hogs with
out a single case of cholera, and how
he manages to have them inoculated
without trouble or expense to himse self
is a story in itself and too long for
repetition here, but it is impossible
to leave the piggery without passing
on the information (gleaned from Col
Joe on "hogolOgy.'D that the hog is
not filthy by instinct. that neither is
he a glutton (because he is the only
animal who will not founder himself)
and to him a daily bath is necessity.
Of course, this may be a mud bath,
says Mr.. Miller, but then we've all
heard of the mud baths of Mulavla,
where beautiful ladies go to improve
their complexions. The point IS, ne
gets his bath, whether it be IN mud or
water just the same as the da1ntlest
bird that dusts himself along the road
way-and for the same purpose.
Most hog raisers, avows Mr.. Mil
Ter, keep their hogs in small en-
closure in which they must eat, bathe
and sleep, while the hog, If he had
his own way, would have a "but and
a pen" like any of Harry Lauder,s
'dCch and doris" friends.
Hoas and Huns.
It's only mental step from tne
kcg3 to the Germans, and the MllIerS
hanle thirty of these alien enemies
helping to TIL their broad acres, and
take care OF their stock.
we got them in the spring, eX-
planned Col. Joe, when labor became
very scarce. l was. reading aDout tne
interned German sailors at foft
Oglethorpe and suddenly conceived the
idca of getting a bunch up here to
work for us. So I boarded train Tor
the internment camp and brought back
thirty. And I must say l have never
had better workmen on the place'
They earn from $35 to 500 month"; !
and keep, and there isn't one OF tnehl
who hasn't a bank account-and most
Of them have Liberty bonds
They live in a summer camp doWn
on the river banks, which was putAI
by the ranchers to house their troupe
Of moving picture people Wnen, III
the pre-war days. they were M Iurnlsnlne 1se
moving pictures of frontier lie TO one
Of the big companies at the rate OF
cne a week. The large basement un-
der the ranch house is fitted up as
studio and here the moving picture
director turned out his finished pro-
duct
When first sighted the Germans
were feeding and doing it exceed1ngly
well, in the big ranch dining room
where the Mil1ers feed all the way
from 80 to 800 men daily.
Real "Back East" Service.
And speaking of dining rooms, one
session in the dining room OF the
beautiful stucco mansion which the
MiIlers call a ranch house, is an oc-
casion meier to be forgot" me
meal if it's dinner time, will equal IN
abundance. in variety and quality that
which could be obtained in any New
York cafe. and its service-out there
on that big ranch where roam tne
buffaloes and the blanketed INDIANS
and where no woman's hand is mani
fest-will be perfect. There Will prop
ably be, fried chicken (ah yas,m tnat
real Virginia fried), or roasteo Cui-
Key Or baked ham. and Frencn peas
which Won NAV think, from their
diminutiveness and quality and abso-
luto uriforro;tv came in a. can mark /