PAGE SEVEN Livestock Subcommittee of the Agricultural 4 STEADIER HOG MARKETS PLANNED Advisory Board, together GIVE LIKE THEY ARE GIVING witjj special swine members and the representatives of the packers, to Improve Following is the Appeal of a Returned the present unsatisfactory situation, K. of C. Man, Who which has unfortunately resulted Knov.'s the Needs of Our because of the injection of uncontrollable Hog Producers and Packers Confer With Representatives Boys in France. factors. We ask the producer to co-operate of the Food Administration and "Do what needs to be done November with us in a most difficult task. NATION NEEDS DAIRY 11 to 18, when the United^* RAVAGES OF SHEEP KILLERS The members jof the Conference -Agricultural Department and Adopt War Work drive is pulled off, like were: Dairyman Will Be Doing an American soldier! It's the Producers—H. C. Stuart, Elk Garden. Dog Owners Can Greatly Lessen Menace New Plan of ReguSation. Duty by Developing Keifers—-Xi«ts finest simile I know," said a returned Va., Chairman Agricultural Advisory to Industry, Aiding Production on Care Needed. K. of C. man who spent Board W. M. McFadden, Chicago, of Animals. a year with the boys "over there." 131.: A. Sykes, Ida Grove, la. "Walk up to do your share for (Prepared by the United States Department In accordance with the policy of the Food Administration since Its foundation .John M. Evvard, Ames, la. J. H. Merjcer, •'Prepared by the "United States Department of Agriculture.) them with your head high, yc.ir Live Stock Commission for Kansas to consult representative men in the agricultural industry on occasions of Agriculture.) No dairy calf that gives promise of step firm and a chcerful smile on J, G. Brown, Monon, Ind. E. C. Owners of dogs can help prevent the of importance to special branches of the industry, on October 24 there was a profitable milk producer phonlrl he your lips—as our boys march into jBrown, President Chicago Livestock ravages of the sheep killers whose onslaughtes sent to the market to be made '-to convened in Washington a meeting of the Live Stock Subcommittee of the the hell of flame in France! {Exchange N. H. Gentry, Sedalia, Mo. have been found to be one of meat. Although meat is in demand, "Then give as they give on the Agricultural Advisory Board and the special members representing the swine John Grattan, Broomfield, Colo. EuIgene the greatest evils preventing the upbuilding these calves will serve the better tattle-field—without a thought of Funk, Bloomington, 111. Isaac industry to consider the situation in the hog market. of the wool and mutton industry if allowed to grow and produce self, unstintedly, whole-heartedly, [Lincoln, Aberdeen. S. D. C. W. Hunt, The conference lasted for three days, and during this time met with the in this country. gloriously! milk and more calves. The dairyman, Logan, la. C. E. Yancey, W. R. Dodson.. The dog rightfully holds a strong executive committee of the fifty packing firms participating in foreign orders "The more generous we are too, will be doing at patriotic duty by place in the minds and affections of now, the more joyous will be their developing the heifers, and in addition •'or pork products-and with the members of the Food Administration directing Food Administration—Herbert Hoover, men. The owner of a good dog finds in home-ccming after peace is de he will be building up a more profitable foreign pork purchases. F. S. Snyder, Major E. L. Roy, G. claced," said this returned welfare a n,ost faithful friend, but it some- herd if he uses good judgment in ^H. Powell. The conclusions of the conference were as follows: times happens that the dog most highly worker. "These boys of ours will caring for his young stock. Careful Department of Agriculture—Louis producer and the insurance of an adequate esteemed is also one that kills and The entire marketing situation has probably be needed overseas for attention during the first two weeks D. Hall, F. R. Marshall. future supply. worries the most sheep and is the most at least two or three years. And #o changed since the September joint often means the difference between a The packers present and others These foreign orders are placed God only knows how vital is the cunning in obscuring the evidences of sickly, undersized, stunted anim 1 and •'onference as to necessitate an entire sharing in foreign orders were represented upon the basis of cost of hogs to the need that this saving welfare service his guilt. A well-bred dog's habit of a large, well-developed one, when it .Iteration in the plans of price stabi'?ation. by the elected packers' committee. packers.- be extended during that period. lying innocently #sleep in the front enters the herd as a milking cow. The current peace talk has Those represented were: As the result of long negotiations It means health, sanity, all Immediately after birth the navel of ilarmed the holders of corn, and there Packers—Armour & Co., Chicago,' between this body and the Packers' that is wholesome in their lives. the calf should be washed with an antiseptic aas been a price decline of-from 25 Committee, representing the 45 to 50 111. Cudahy Packing Co., Chicago, III. "Stay with them with your'* solution and tied with a sHk cents to 40 cents per bushel. The fact packers participating in foreign orders, Morris & Co., Chicago, 111. Swift & wholehearted support until they thread in order to prevent infection. together with the Allied buyers, Co., Chicago. 111. Wilson & Co., Chicago, that the accumulations of low priced come walking down the gangplank. For the first feed the calf should have all under the Chairmanship of the 111. John Agar Co., Chicago, 111. corn in the Argentine and South Africa the first milk from the cow aucx cub­ Fdt)d Administration, the following undertaking Armstrong Packing Co., Dallas, Tex. "And thank God you've got would, upon the advent of peace ing, and should have its mother's has been given by the packers Boyd Dunham & Co., Chicago, III. chance to do something concrete and liberated shipping, become available milk for a week.thereafter. T'»e signer Brennan Packing Co., Chicago, 111. for them!" to the European market has created the weaning takes place the better, Cincinnati Abattoir Co., Cincinnati, In view of the undertakings on the a great deal of apprehension on but ordinarily It should not bo O. Cleveland Provisions Co., Cleveland, part of the Food Administration with —Do Tour Part— poned later than the fourth ^a„.\ TV.-? the part of corn holders. This decline HEARTY ENDORSEMENTS O. Cudahy Bros. Co., Cudahy, regard to the co-ordinated purchases sooner the calf is weaned the has spread fear among swine growers Wis. J. Dold Packing Co., Buffalo, N. of pork products, covered In the attached, OF FOUR LEADING JEWS ily It Is taught to drink. Y'hen (1 that a similar reduction in the prices Y. Dunlevy Packing Co., Pittsburg, it is agreed that the packers fed from the pall eight to tc^ of hogs would naturally follow. Moreover, Pa. J. E. Decker & Sons, Mason City, participating in these orders will undertake or four or five quarts, of ml'.L. y. Give Full Approval to United War 1 Wool and Mutton Are in Great Dements—Don't the lower range of corn prices not to purchase hogs for jess la. Evansville Packing Co., Evansville, fresh and warm from the cow, and divided Work Campaign for Funds to Let Dogs Worry the would, if incorporated in a 13-to-l ratio, Ind. East Side Packing Co., East than the following agreed minimums into two feeds, are sufficient. Help Americariv Soldiers. Sheep. St. Louis, 111. Hammond Sta.ndish & obviously result in a continuously for the month of November, that is a The feeding times should be as neat :y daily minimum of $17150 per hundred Co.. Detroit, Mich. G. A. Hormel & falling price for live hogs. In view yard during the daytime is no proof regular as possible, and at first it is advisable Following are endorsements of four pounds on average of packers' droves, Co.. Austin. Minn.: Home Packing & of these changed conditions many that the same dog does not kill sheep leading Jews, prominent in public affairs to feed more than twice a dr y. excluding throw-outs. "Throw-outs" Ice Co., Terre Haute, Ind. Independent »wine producers anticipated lower at night. The amount fed should be constant, of the United States, who give to be defined as pigs under 1'!0 Packing Co.. Chicago. 111. Indianapolis J5ecau.se of the economic loss occasioned and to insure this, scales or nvvi fir trices and as a result rushed their their full approval to the United War pounds, stags, boars, thin sows and Abattoir Co., Indianapolis, Ind. by sheep-killing dogs, and because %gs to market In large numbers, and Work Campaign for funds with which ing cups should be used, as vaviaiUm skips. Further that no hogs of any International Provision Co., Brooklyn, such dogs bring the whole of to bring the touch of home to American tends to get the digestive rrrans out liis overshipment has added to and kind shall be bought,' except throwouts, N. Y.: Interstate Packing Co., Winona, soldiers: tlu ir kind into bad repute, the true admirers of order. At all times the u" :^t care ^vavated the decline. at less than $10.50 per hundred Minn.: Iowa Packing Co., Des Moines, Louis Marshall: "The union of all and friends of this animal should be taken to prevent an-, festive bviie information of tlie Department la. Powers Begg Co.. .Jacksonville, pounds. The average of packers' these organizations in making a joint should help to further any steps likely disorder, as all such t'-'-'^e hinders fAgriculture indicates that the supply droves to be construed as the average 111.: Kingtin-& Co.. Indianapolis, Ind. appeal to the American people for the to result in the limitation of the activity the thrift and dove' ment of of hogs has increased about 8 per of the total sales in the market of all Krey Packing Co., St. Louis, Mo. Lake funds necessary to carry on their essential of these.discrediting members of the calf. Calf scours is thr common hogs for a given day. All the above Erie Co.. Cleveland. O. Layton cent., while the highest unollicial estimate Provision activities, is the most inspiring a noble race. One of the most practicable indication of indigestif to be based on Chicago. Co.. Wis. Oscar Mayer Milwaukee does not exceed 15 per cent, increased demonstration of a homogeneous people methods of accomplishing this The following named c.uitions. We agree that a committee shall !stappointed & Pro., Sedgwick and Beethoven that the world has ever witnessed. production over last year. On result seems to be to place upon dogs to a great extent, tend prevent by the Food Administration streets, Chicago. 111. J. T. McMillan It will not only result in securing the the other hand, the arrival of hogs scours: such a tax as will reduce the number to check the daily operations in the Co.: St. Paul. Minn. Miller & Hart, means for effective work, but every Feed regularly. (fcuring the lasi three weeks in the of superfluous ones and result in few®' various markets with a view to supervision Chicago, 111. J. Morrell & Co.. Ottumwa, dollar contributed will help every man Be sure that the milk 's always being kept by persons who cannot or seven great markets has been 27 per and demonstration of the carrying la.: Nuckolls Packing Co., Pueblo, who is fighting under our flag for the sweet and warm., will not give them the attention necessary cent, more than last year, during the out of the above. Colo. Ogden Packing and Provision entire American people." In feeding use only elejv "'1s. to prevent the formation of habits lorrcsponding period, demonstrating The ability of the packers to carry Co.. Ogden,-Utah: Ohio Provision Co., Dr. K. Kohler, president of Hebrew Feed the calf a little than it and associations that lead to sheep the unusually heavy marketing of the Cleveland, O. Parker Webb & Co., Detroit, out this arrangement will depend on Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio: "It wants. kill|ng. Mich. Pittsburg Packing and Available supply. In the face of the there being a normal marketing of seems as if out of this cruel warfare Should the calf become s' reduce hogs based upon the proportionate increase Provision Co., Pittsburg, Pa. Rath Excessive receipts some packers have a new spirit of humanity is evolving. the amount of milk one-hal Mitil the INCREASED NUMBER OF HOGS over the receipts of last year. Packing Co., Waterloo, la. Roberts & Here is our great opportunity to manifest not maintained the price agreed last animal has recovered. Oake, Chicago, 111. Rohe & Bros., New The increase in production appears to the broad humanitarian spirit of month. On the other hand, many The amount of milk fed be gradually York City: W. C. Routh & Co., lagansport, Pork Is Mainstay of Laboring Men and! be a maximum of about 15 per cent, Judaism: let us not miss it! Let the lit* the packers have paid over the Increased until at end of Ind.: St. Louis Ind. Packing Co.. Soldiers—Need for Fats Is Particularly and we can handle such an increase. Jewish Welfare Board lead in this the second week t!u calf re "ps from price offered to them in an endeavor St. Louis, Mo. Sinclair & Co., T. M. Acute. If the producers of hogs should, as great campaign!" 15 to 16 pounds, or three-fou 1 ,rTo ta maintain the agreed price. The result Cedar ltapids, la. Sullivan & Co., Detroit. they have in the past few weeks, prematurely Henry Morgenthau: "American boys gallons of milk a day. Th :he in any event has been a failure Mich. Theurer-Norton Provision market hogs in such increasing of every race and religious belief are (Prepared by the United States Department gradual substitution of ski. r':k for of Agriculture.) to maintain the October price basis numbers over the above it is entirely Co.. Cleveland, O. Wilson Provision fighting' shoulder to shoulder in trench whole milk may commence. an' An increase of at least 15 per cent of determined upon at the September conference beyond the ability of the packerst Co., Peoria, III. Western Packing and and field, and war workers representing grain should be placed bef ihe calf the number of hogs during the year to maintain these minimums, and provision Co.. Chicago fll.: Charles every faith are working together and undertaken by the packers. at this period, and it will nd to 1918, to provide pork, which with wheal therefore we must have the co-operation Wolff Packing Co., Topeku, Kan. behind the lines to give the boys home Another factor contributing to is classed as a leading war food, is recommended comfort and good cheer and spiritual of the producer himself to maintain the break in prices during the month in the supplementary food HOPELESS DESPAIR PREVAILS guidance. Support of the United War these results. It is a physical |lias been the Influenza epidemic it production program for 1918 just issued Work Campaign is support for our impossibility for the capacity of the 'has sharply curtailed consumption of by the United States department own." packing houses to handle a similar pork products and temporarily decreased Abram I. Elkus: "Military experts of agriculture. Pork, the program over-flood of hogs and to find a market the labor stuff of the packers I have talked with attribute the indomitable points out, constitutes more than onehalf for the output. The packers are anxious •.? about 25 per cent. GERMAN SOLDIERS REALIZE DE- spirit, of our troops largely of all the meat produced in thcUnited to co-operate with the producers The exports of 130,000,000 pounds «i FEAT IS INEVITABLE. to,the efforts of the seven great organizations States and it is the mainstay in maintaining stabilization of price ?i of pork products for October compared which co-operate for the of the ration of laboring men and soldiers. and to see thai producers receive a i'i with about 52,000,000 pounds morale and happiness of the fighters. The need for increasing the supply fair price for heir products. in October a year ago, and the They are as important ®s the big guns of fats is particularly acute. -Animal (Signed) THOS Iv WILSON. Letters Taken From Prisoners and export orders placeable by the Food nd airplanes. Every dollar given to fats can be increased more quickly Chairman .Packers' Committee. Dead Men Conu.n Gloomy Administration for November, amount the United War Work Campaign is a by increasing the number of hogs than The plan embodied above ivas adopted to 170,000,000 pounds as contrasted Tidings. dollar invested in mora'e. Let us all ,.«•••# in any other manner. An increase of by ihe conference. with the lesser exports of stand behind the war workers behind from 5 to 50 per cent in hog production The Food Administrator has appointed ii'i 98,000,000 for November, 1917. The the men behind the guns!" With the British Army in France, in 18 states is indicated as especially a committee, comprising Mr. Thomas v'V increased demands of the allies are —Do Tour Part— Aug. 27.—Many letters taken from desirable. The following measures are E. Wilson, chairman of the Packers' continuing, and are in themselves 4 READING Aim IN FRANCE recommended for increasing pork production. prisoners and dead Germans indicate Committee Mr. Everett Brown, 'proof of the necessity for the. large that hopeless despair is beginning to president of the Chicago Livestock Exchange 4* production for which the Food Administration prevail on the German side of the P^ade Fcssible By Work of American The increase in the number of hogs & Major Itoy of the Food Administration, asked. The increase in ex•port line. A letter written home by a German Library Association. in the Northwestern states should be Mr. Louis D. Hall of the demands appears to be amply who was stationed in a to.vn larjre. In the New England states, Bureau of Markets, to undertake the sufficient to take up the increase in Foundation of Dairy d. whir': has now been captured said: "I found your boo as everywhere, where only about two hogs are kept supervision of the execution of the hog product! m, but unfavorable market "The war has been lost for some from the seaport bases to the front per farm, the increase also should be plan in the various markets. Commission conditions existing in October afford nibble at them a little. At time nly those high up are failing to Hno tranche?.," so Raymond B. Fos-iicK. great. men aire asked to co-operate in no fair index of the aggregate the third week the substitu admit it." Chairman of the Commission on Pork production will be increased carrying out the plan embodied in the skim milk will be complet. supply and demand. The leiter added: "Oh, poor Germany—on'y-the Training Camp Activities, reported to economically by breeding for two litters pnckors' agreement. It must be evident changes milk can be incr It must lie.evident that the enorinous dead at the front have the authorities the American Library a year, by saving through better that offers by commission men to o" after until 20 pounds or 2V shortage in tats in the Ceutial forgotten this swindle." Association on his recent return care a larger dumber of the pigs farrowed sell hogs below the minimum established day are fed this amount Empires and neutral countries would Another letter said: "This cannot from France. "I found them in dugouts by growing pasture and forage above is not fair, either to the when fed with th sufficient immediately upon peace result in additional last much longer." thirty or forty feet below ground, producer or the participating packers. crops by using wastes, especially hay. If skim milk is pier demands for pork products Still another German wrote: in cow-barns where 6hrapnel had Mr. Brown has undertaken on behalf town and city garbage by proper rations may be fed, but the added which, top of the heavy shipments 'Our losses from the battle exceed blown parts of the roof away, as well of the commission men in the United of concentrated feeds by the use give proportionstfly better to the Allies, would tend materially ill the drafts. Germany is sure~ to as in substantial huts and tents far Stales I lint they will loyally support of self-feeders by pasturing alfalfa Cornmeal, bran, and Ilnst rc. to Increase the American exports inasmuch iose very soon." back from the" firing line. I found the plan. and other legumes and other forage as no considerable reservoir of mixed in the proportions ol It is a fact that many letters taken them also in hospitals and dressing It Is believed by the conference chat crops by hogging down grain sorghums supplies exists outside of the United and one, make an excellent frcjn prisoners, whether written by stations in scattered villages in the this new plan, based as it is upon a and corn by finishing hogs to States. It seems probable that the ture. This grain when fed them to be posted home or received by training area where our men are billeted, positive minimum basis, will bring better heavier weights up to about 275 present prospective supplies would be of fine clover or alfalfa hay them from civilians in the interior of and even in remote parts of results to the producer than average pounds, and by preventive measures inadequate to meet this world demand ideal supplement to skim rancing Germany, are in the same vein. One France where our forestry units are prices for the month. It does not which will keep hogs free f/om cholera, with the return to peace. So far as it the ration. Calve.'allowed carrying on their lonely but essential German in Berlin chided his brother limit top prices and should narrow tub erculosis, other diseases, and parasites. is possible to Interpret this fact, it appears all the grain thaf at the front about making rapid work. the margins necessary to country buyers that there should be even a eat until they consume thr progress to the rear. He then predicted "And they were all well worn books in more variable markets. It is stronger demand for pork ... products day from this point the feuse that I saw, showing signs of constant that the war was surely- coming believed that the plan should work out BALANCED RATIONS IN NEED after the war, and therefore any alarm his judgment as to wh usage. Indeed, the books are in continual to an end and that with the Allies close to $18 average. of hog producers as to the effect of crease is justified. then making an economic war Germany demand, and-I am sure that it Swine producers of the country will peace is unwarranted by the outlook. The calf, from the timr Hi jh-Priced Grain Makes It Necessary would be ruined. will be a reading army that we shall contribute to their own interest by weeks of age, should a! In the light of these circumstances for Farmers-to Grow More welcome home from France when the Many of these letters were written not flooding the market, for it must he clean, sunny quarters, at It Is the conclusion of the conference/ Roughage Crops. before the British begun their drive. war isjdone." .. evident that if an excessive over percentage exercise, and access to plei that attempts to hold the price,Of hogs Th^continued service of this organization of hogs is^mark.e!ed in any to the price of corn may work out to pure water. (Prepared by the United States Department is one of the purposes of the BUNS THROW SHELLS'C' one month price stabilization and control the disadvantage of pork producers. ofvAgriculture.) The general practice is to 'United War Work Campaign. INTO MASSED TROOPS cannot succeed, and it is 'cer'ain It,is the conclusion that any interpretation With the present high price of grains skim milk for from two to —Do Your -Part— that producers themselves can con of the formula should be a it is hardly necessary to call attention In the latter case, with fa! WITH APOLOGIES TO K. C. B. bute, materially to the efforts-of tlie British Artillery Aids Infantry En broad gauged policy applied over a to the need for growing more nearly time of final weaning'from conferences if tliey will do their marketing long period. It is t'he opinion of the Smashing German Counter balanced roughage rations, by plantingCanada in the spring, whep pasture 0IVE and you'll GET! in as normal a way as possible.-.. conference that in substitution of the /VttelCKS«. ^i'--• v-- peas in oats and soy beans in under this system the ca?make Tlie BIBLE says that The whole situation its existing at previous plans of stabilization the With the British Army in France, excellent growth du 'Reformer's-PREACH it corn -for silage, or by planting thv Ut* Stock Subcommittee of the Agricultural present demands a frank and exp! Aug. 27.-—The German retirement is Business LEADERS declare it ...'. ...... crops separately for hay or seed. tire period without any bre If Advisory Board, together with assurance from the conferees represented--namely. continuing along many parts of the soy beans are planted for hay, the GREAT men LIVE it that- every poss'bio the specially Invited swine representatives, battle front. "The British are overwhelming The youm star? have DISCOVERED it fine-stemmed varieties are preferable. Feed for Mainten: should accept the invitation of effort will re made to maintain a nbog the enemy's rear guards in YOU-know it by experience At present it is profitable to grow the It should be remembered price 'Commensurate with the Food Administration to join with heavy fighting. Reports indicate that Our SOLDIER BOYS have PROVED it crops for seed, and even if the price dairy cow requires appn production costs, and reasqnahie --Hiing the Administration and the packers in at least one counter-attack has been With each glorious VICTORY of seed should go down, they pay Avill per cent of her ration values in execution of the-deria determining the-prices at which controlled broken up by the British artillery concentrating If you would RECEIVE, you must as a substitute for cottonseed meal in and maintain body weig. ed policy of the Food Adia.siis i" W export orders are to,be placed. its fire on massed enemy GIVE the. ration for dairy cattle, as the protein poor cow requires an ever to use every agency in its comr a This will be regularly done. The influence The UNITED War Work Campaign troops. South of the Scarpe the Canadians, contents of these crops is even tion for maintenance. secure justice to the farmer of these orders will be directed driving along the Arras-Albert-Cambrai Gives you YOUR chance Higher than that of cotton seed. If soy The stabilization methods ad.«-tf| to the maintenance of the common object—namely, road, have gained more It may be your LAST beans are used for feed they should be f6r November represent the he's, .=•f. the stabilization of the Ventilation in Stt To PROVE your ROYALTY ground and added more than 1.000 mixed before grinding with some less forts'of the conference, eonc.urre'i price of live hogs tv- as io secure as far Yentilation in our dairseldom To the BOY who is NOW in Franc* Germans, to the British total of prjs oily grain, as corn or oats, or with by ll'O I'uUii AdlJuuiaiUuiuU UilJ tliW is possible returns as It to the overdone. When he GETS HOME, he will Mf oners during the fighting. hominy orjbran. 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