Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-01
AMES IS NOW
AFOOD
MORE THAN 1000 At SHORT
COURSE TALK TO IMPROVE
AND CONSERVE FOOD.

0AS DSeu CQIQoo lQIO z war IOOQ COn-
seFvation camp by the more than 1000
short course visitors who are regis
tered for Farm and Home Week. A
hundred or moro lectures and demon
STATIONS are gwen daily on how to
save food, or how to produce food BY
breeding more livestock or growing
more farm crops or some other angle
Of the conservation question.
So interested Were tho farm women
in food conservation that when Miss
Anna Ba1rows of The food administers.
ton 1T Washington, d. c.. talked in the
morning on fat saving, every one Of
the $50 seats in the big chemistry lee.
ture room was taken, over fifty extra
chairs were filled. standing room was
all occupied and dozens Of women
vere turned away because they could
not get in.
Hss Under oise.,sslen.
The part that the hog is playing and
is going to play in the food question
meeting in the afternoon. Methods Of
better feeding, corn substitutes, use Of
pastures and prevention Of disease
were discussed by Dean c. F. Curtiss,
John n. Evvard and Dean c. H. STANCE
Of Iowa State college and w. ]. Ken
nedy Of Sioux City.
War in Europe, with its problems
has taught US that we must get rid
Of the scoop shovel method Of feeding
hogs" said Dean Curtiss. "The farm
q today is using his lead pencil to fig.
ure out his profits. He is finding out
that II he must produce pork at a
profit, he must substitute other feeds
in place Of grain. He must make bet
tor use Of such forage crops as a.
falia, rape and clover. He must Learn
to make better use Of roughage ON the
farm that formerly was mostly wasted.
while there is no certainty about
the future OF the hog business, do
not believe that conditions in pork pro-
ducuon will be affected to any great
extents I don't believe that We win
raise the Is per cont to Is per cent
more hogs next year that the food ad-
minist1ation has asked us to raise.
Under conditions today We will do we'll
il we raise the normal amount. There
Will % 0tXOn8 Ick0NS0uVN " ooAA ZIG
grain. But l feel sure the hog mon
Of Iowa will do their best"
Must Use Better Methods.
In speaking on Pork Production for
the Futzre." Mr.. Kennedy declared
that Iowa farmers needed to use bet-
ter methods in taking care Of their
hogs. About 80 per cent Of all hoSB
fASrowed in Iowa die before they are
Q month old, he said, and this waste
III method needed TO be stepped. The
average litter raised IL I'VE. A little
more care would raise this number to
six and Iowa could have its increased
pork production without much extra
effort other than good management,
care and feeding Of brood sows and
brood.
Turner's must feed les eo0osa-
trstsd foods, especially during the
SIMMER months declared Mr.. Ken
nedy. prom the middle Of May to
the middle Of September, a1faah and
rspe must take the place OF corn and
Grains to . large extent"
Interest in Dee Keeping
Much interest is being taken in bee
keeping. Over fifty practical bee keep
ers arc attending the first short course
ever given for beemen. They are con-
fident that the bee industry offers for
next year the greatest prospects in his
tory for making q profit and at the