The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-18

Ing for two years, said in German:
well, the war is over for me-"
of pork. Their industry netted them
a tidy profit of $S5,OO0.
In suburban towns it is suggest
ed that community liberty livestock
units be started in a fashion kindred
to that OF community gardens and
that enough piedgers be secured to
purchase carload of steers, sheep
or pigs, which may be turned over
to a farmer who will be paid by the
pledgers for their cars and feed.
There are hundreds Of thousands
OF people that may not be circum-
stanced SO that they could raise
themselves any of the livestock al
ready mentioned, and ye, might find
it possible and convenient to engage
in the growing of chickens. 1t has
recently been disclosed that there
are in this country substantially
100000 farms upon which there is
not single chicken.
This means not only 4 chance to
raise many millions OF chickens. but
an opportunity to swell our food
stock by billions OF eggs. Here is
another way to enlist with the lib
erty livestock campaigners, and
those that recruit this army OF vital
ly necessary workers can win dis
tinctiye recognition and gain tokens
that shall mark their competitive
excellence.
1T is imperative that we keep in
mind the food value o. milk, be
cause there is nothing that can re
place it in the human dietary at Ger
tain stages of lie and under 4 num-
Der OF circumstances.
"Out West, on the ranges. the
cattleman's creed of late has been
cash in while the cashing is good,
and this in measure explains Just
why we are millions OF head of cat
tie short in our herds compared with
the high tide mark OF 1907. No won
der, then, Mr.. Hoover has said we
are selling our animals faster than
We can grow them
During recent years VIC have tax
en- about 100000 feeceS annually.
and the pulled wool taken from
sheep and lambs slaughtered for
meat brings the total clip up to the
equivalent of about 40,00000O
heeces. Ii all this wool were suit
able for military use it would sup
ply only 100000 men. The pro
applied with simple shr Dish shrdl II
duction OF wool in the United States
has remained practically stationary
from 1914 to 1917, while imports in
creased 48 per cent and the estimat-
ed net supply increased only about
Il per cent.
Without amplifying this subject
needlessly it is manifest that we
cannot begin too soon nor work toe
hard to re-estAblish our focks ot
eight years ago. Not only do we
need a great deal more wool than
we can now secure from native re-
sources, but lamb and mutton have
become much bigger factors in our
national dietary than was formerly
the case. This has been made more
conspicuouSly so by the augmented
prices for pork and the increased
charges for beef.
No Flocks in the East.
Strange as it may seem, the East.
ern states, which used to be our
principal sheep-raising section, have
been substantially denuded of flocks
and in the days OF their presence ir
abundance they were raised primar.
lily for their wool. The transfer ot
the industry to the West altered the
order OF attairs-sheep are grown
there now in the first place as 4
source of food and their wool is al
incident in the business.
The thing that should be done
and which can be done, is to restore
the millions of head of sheep to the
pastuer lands of the Eastern state.
and thus to augment our supplies Of
lamb and mutton and swell by lust
so much the available wool-every
pound of which will be at a premi
um. Where the fleece sold but Z
comparatively lew years back at hal
dime pound, it is now bringing
three-quarters of a dollar, and there
is a persistent opinion among those
best informed that native wool will
command a round 100 cents a pount
before the current year comes to {
close.
80 much for criticism and tht
disclosure of conditions as they. pre-
vail here in our prime livestock de
partments. The question may bt
pertinently put What can we dc
about it? There is a remedy, but i
demands widespread and very gen
erous cooperation.
Liberty bonds are giving us il
large measure the financial thew
with which to wage battle for worlC
democracy; the Liberty motor il
counted upon to turn the tide o
aerial supremacy in our favor anC
to permit us to carry the war righ
into the heart of the enemy's coun
try; and the Liberty Live Stool
League, which urge, promises, as