The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-09

course. he asserted hy these IaaoreyS
at very many isolated points. having
regular and well paid jobs at these
shallow mines by reason OF quick and
regular removal of their output they
are WORKING with viii and hut for tho
tractor trucks, IL would have been i'm
possible. Not only is this large sup
ply bound to affect the situation favor
ably, but it has already helped 70 ease
the union strike situation. by destroy
ing the strange hold the strikers
would otherwise have had on produce
zion at the big congested unionized
centers.
HOGS AND CHOLERA
Coming as be did FROM great
grain and meat section Mr.. Van Heyde
was asked about those crops, and he
zaid wheat prospects were never bet
ter and that for miles and miles in
the whole belt wheat fields were now
looking like green velvet beds He
was interested in being told that North
Carolina was becoming = great meat
producer. and that hog cholera was
the chief enemy now. 1t having broken
out around Greensboro ytrulently In
the past week Pity, pity he ex-
claimed, but It has already played
havoc In the great pork growing re-
Etone Of the west A friend in cen
trail Ohio told me only last Wednes.y
days that he had lost I'LL .hcgs with
IN
each, and that fAEstlser geSt IT, waY
rorse- How had Il y west for hs
did not call Ohio western state at
all Mr.. vanHeyde said large hog
breeding corporation at Springfield.
had travelling circus tent electric
ally lighted to hold auction sales of
breeders SO the busy farmers in the
devastated cholera sections could at
tend ar night.
AT one of these night sales in
Springfield recently ne saw buyers
from western states. Illinois. Kansas,
Indiana. etc, rreediIy bidding against
each other. Bears he said brought
all the way from $500 to $500 one
bringing rs hi~h as sSo5 the night he
was present, and brood sows selling
from $3.50 to s4ee. only an Eli cot
ton farmer in the far south who has
been visited by the boil weeviI, can
apprec:ate The condition of an all corn
Illinois farmer whose hogs are dead
from cholera just at harvesting" he
naiyeiy explained
GROWS ENTHUSIASTIC
Fsut Mr.. NanHeyde, speaking of con
dttions IN the south became enthusias-
tic. His mission for the world league
against alcoholism and for home law
enforcement requires his presence in
all sections. and he completed a tour
of Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas
Nuvemhes / s. In these states he fonad
the cotton crop very good. even in
The oil boil weevil section farmers
by divers'fying crops were making
home supplies, and nearly as much
cotton under new systems of cult
walton. the better prices bringing more
money for reduced cotton pounda-e
Labor was demoralized at the first
of the picking season. but later there
was little trouble. and when he left
heard little complaint and the fefds
were fast changing from white to
brown
He found business men. especially
the big saw mill men. in Arkansas and
&labama, and the Alabama Iron and
coal operators, especially interested
In having enforcement OF the prohi-
bition law, for they all stated that the
greatest kind OF improvera emit had re-
suited from prohibition. and the great
est foes to increased production in
their lines OF work. we're the blind
tigers. noonshiners and bootIeggera
But we have the tlnest country on
earth. the best people, and the fairest
land he concluded. II thought \
never saw a prettier sight than was
the snowy white fields of the sunny
south in November, or the wavins
miles of billowing green OF my own
west In December. but the blue hazed
and green valleys and or
chard views of Virginia. and the wheat
capped hills and brown covered bot
toms Of Piedmont North Carolina
passed through yesterday. capped the
climax"