Arizona republican., 1919-04-13
By Frederic J. Haskin

By Frederic J. HaskIn
 SAVANNAH, Ga, April 10.-The two figures in Georgia affairs which arc the subject of most talk and spec ulation at this time are the Georgia hog and the Georgia negro.
 The Georgia hog, fattened on such delicacies as peanuts, velvet beans and sweet potatoes, is attaining popular ity. both at home as farm product and in the northern markets as ham and bacon, which promises wonderful things for the future. It shows the Georgia farmer how to break the grip in which cotton has held him for a century.
 But this rosy future is much depen- dent upon the Georgia darky as upon the Georgia hog. And the negro has just returned from war. Apparently he has not yet decided just what he is going to do, and since the wheels or industry in these parts cannot turn without him, this hesitation is a matter of keen and widespread interest.
 At present according 10 reliable ac- counts, most of the dusky heroes are engaged in telling what they saw and experienced in France and in trying to trace the ultimate consumers of those allotments which they made in haste before leaving. One returned colored soldier, according to local re- port, went to the chairman of his local draft board and respectfully asked to whom he had assigned his allotment
 Why, to your wife, Sam," he was told.
 Vas, suh, nah wife" Sam agreed. But would you-all mind tellin' me what's her first name?"
 However, soldiers were by no means the only ones who married and made allotments rashly and in haste, and not all colored soldiers were rash and nasty in their choice of war brides. One wife of a colored soldier still in France drew five hundred dollars on account of allotments recently and invested the whole sum in a mule, a blow and a piece of ground so that her lord might go to work immediately upon his re- turn.
 And when the colored man does go back to work he makes better terms than he used to. His days work used to be, in his own words, from can't see to couldn't" meaning from before daylight to after dark. Now he re- fuses, quite rightly, to work more than ten hours day, and gets more for the ten-hour day than he used to get for fourteen hours No one planes the negro for bettering his lot all he can, of course, but they wish down here that he would quit being hero as sooI as possible and get down to work.
 The war is responsible for the pres Nf hA hot iT, V.eyia as well as that of the colored man. In 1916 there were only 1900, ,OOO hogs il the state of Georgia, and the people were paying s4O,OOO,OOO a year for pork products from other states. Il was then that the food administra- tion and the department of agriculture sent out the plea that each section raise as much of it's own meat as pos sible, thus saving transportation as well as adding to the meat supply.
 The way Georgia responded to this call is shown by the fact that there art now 3,043,000 hogs in the state, and the export of pork products exceeds the import, which has already fallen tc s15,000,000 a year.
 This gain in quantity is not by any means the only gain. A few years age there was the merest scattering of higf grade hogs in Georgia. Today the Du- roc Jersey and Hampshire hogs arc being raised and sold all over the state and numerous farms have been estab- lished for the purpose of supplying the farmers with blooded stock.
 The fact of the matter is. that ir responding to the hurry call for in creased meat production, most of th Georgia farmers discovered for the frs time how finely their section is adapted to the production of hogs, and hoy much better it is to have two sources of income instead of one-the one hay ing always been cotton.
 Putting ham and bacon on a hog i what make him valuable. Mere fat pro duces only the lower grade of pork pro ducts, and the valuable "streak O lean is the result of mixed diet.
 Now Georgia farm is the very plac where a hog can get mixed diet Al most anything will grow down here