The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1944-05-11
Swine Industry Develops
Feed Conservation Plan
c. D. Carpenter Helps Hog Growers Solve
Problems; Program Tailored by Coopera-
tive Business Men of Agriculture.
By BAUKHAGE
Ne,ps Analyst and Commentator.

WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, d. C.
When I learned that a former feed
man had been the moving spirit in
drawing up the present swine pro-
gram which you'll be hearing about
shortly. l recalled an adage once
heard in London:
THE profit in the mustard bust
ness is in the mustard you leave on
your plate"
That was the statement once
made by a famous British mustard
manufacturer. In other words. the
consumers waste is the producers
gain.
The proposition seems logical
enough and nobody could blame the
mustard-maker for hoping that you
and 1 would be as profigate with
our condiment as possible. On that
basis. I was recently surprised to
learn that the government had
called in a man in the feed business
and paid him a dollar a year to help
solve the feed problem. I wondered
If it wasn't just possible that maybe
the consumer was going to suffer.
I had a talk with some members
Of the department Of agriculture
after I learned that this gentleman
had done so much for the poultry
raisers that they picked him to help
on the swine program which is as
closely connected with the feed
problem as the fly is with the fly
paper.
why should you pick a man
whose interest it is to have the
farmer consume IS much feed as
possible. when there isn't enough
feed to go around now?" I asked.
This whole program" the gov
eminent official told me. lis worked
out by the swine industry itself; the
men who produce the hogs. the men
who process them, help feed them,
distribute them. That's the point.
The government merely c~ooperates.
You had better talk to Mr.. Car
penter."
I did.
Dollar a Year
Clifford D. Carpenter carries the
title of special assistant to the chief
Of the feed and livestock branch Of
the food production administration
Of the War Food administration"
For that long title. he gets the short
fee of a dollar a year. He has no
desire to remain a public servant.
He wants to get back to his bust
ness. But he is enthusiastic over the
present swine program which he
and his colleagues Of the industry
have worked out. a part Of which is
the conservation, not the waste, OF
feed.
/ asked why, when his business
was to sell the farmer a. much feed
as he could?
Because" he said, the success
Of the feed business lies in having
efficient customers, not careless
wasters. One Of the ways we
helped to increase the poultry out
put was to teach the farmer to stop
waste. For instance, you have no
idea how much was saved by hav-
ing the farmer put a rim on the
edge Of his feed troughs so the
chicks would not spill almost as
much as they ate. and what saved
even more than that was something
much simpler-we got the farmer to
all the feed receptacles three-fourths
full instead of trimming"
He went on at some length on
this subject, especially emphasizing
that the interests Of the consumer
and the producer are the same in
the end and each profits by the
others efficiency-that, he pointed
out, is the benefit derived from bust
ness in government, one Of the good
results which many persons feel will
come by having businessmen in the
many government agencies.
Profitable Patriotism
The whole swine program has
been tailored by the businessmen"
of the swine industry and that in
ckldes the farmer who raises the
hogs, for he is a businessman, too
has to be If he succeeds.
Last month, in Chicago. a group
Of these men got together, repre-
sentatives of hog farmers, the breed
ers. the veterinarians, the packers.
the feed men, the equipment manu-
f%acturers - everybody interested in
the whole cycle from the shoat's
Arst squeal to the dining table.
Its patriotic to make your herd
profitable was the slogan this
group worked out which was a SEN
tence with a two-way kick-you can
turn It around and it Is Just as