Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-18

blame except yourself; but If you are working
for some other fellow you are sure to blame
him. with more or less reason. The labor
problem is simply this fact operating on a
large scale. In other words, as other author
tiles have intimated before, the idea seems to
be to get back to a system which will give
every man some control over his means of
livelihood, thereby encouraging him to fight
with himself instead Of with the rest OF us.
We do not wish to hang any responsibility
for the above wind amming on Mr.. Traer but
he makes eloquent argument that the hog
is one of the leading methods of achieving that
needed economic independence. With proper
eye for publicity, Mr.. Traer says to take Florida
for instance. Here it is possible to raise two
or three crops of forage every year, 1t is also
possible to raise two filters of pigs in a year
without the use of artificial heat. man can
buy excellent land for twenty-five dollars
acre, says Mr. Traer, provided he keeps away
from the sections where the real estate oper-
ator is most abundant. In such sections, he
says, the same kind of land sells for one
hundred dollars an acre. With one hundred
provided he has executive ability and industry,
he can found a fortune.
The Florida climate and the incredibly pro-
life hog magnifcently cooperate in this glo-
rious achievement. But main credit is due the
hog. Hogs breed at the age of ten months,
have two filters year, and ten or twelve pigs
at litter. Mr.. Traer figures out on piece
of paper with a lead pencil that the happy
owner of this one old sow and ten acres of
land, having purchased the services of a high
grade boar, may with luck at the end of his
second year have 81 SowS and may have sold
in the meantime II bears. This seems in
credible, but Mr.. Traer is an authority and he
did the arithmetic. The deserving settler will
meantime be toiling on his ten acres, produc-
ing enough turnipS, peanuts oats and other
crops to keep his growing porcine family alive.
Now and then he will pause to shoot dose of
hog cholera serum into each one of them. He
will not lead an easy life, but the limits of
his ultimate wealth measured only by his
energy and generalShip
Mr.. Traer believes that survey of the
United States will show that rural prosperity
is directly in proportion to the number of hogs
found in given section He points out that
Iowa, which is the richest state per capita in
the United States, is also a great hog-producine
state. And Iowa is place where the
wealth is we'll distributed. 1t is said % be
the one state in the union where there are
enough motor cars SO that everyone can get
his foot off the ground at the same time. 1t is
the direct anttheSiS of the great eastern man
communities where the per capita
wealth is nearly as great, but few persons
have got the most of it,
And in Iowa there 100000 hogs. In
a word, nearly everybody has got a few of
these prolific producers and therefore nearly
everybody has got at least little money. The
hog, after he is dead becomes a manstay of
corporate capital, but alive he is the little fell
lows friend We have cattle barons and sheep
kings, but no one has succeeded in mOnopo-
LIKING the business of raising hogs over enor-
nous areas, and in squeezing the little fellow
out;" because it is too easy to start hog farm
ing. 1t is above all BUSINESS where it is easy
for the little felloW to squeeze in.