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INCREASE IN PORK PRODUCTION DEMANDED *4* ft S'v m •> Vi'sy. ' ti\ -V *' , ' i '/ rftyy -, • ■ -V '» V 'V'./' GILTS. YEARLING FARMERS INSPECTIN CFrom the United States Department of Agriculture.) The Imperative need for an abund ant food supply this year demands an Increase in pork production. All the agricultural authorities unite in de claring that the live-stock holdings of farmers already are too low and that they must not be reduced further in order to obtain greater yields of staple crops. Fortunately this is not neces sary. Iiog raising can be extended in many sections of the country where it is now of little Importance, and the total supply of human food increased accordingly. At the present time a large part of .,mr pork comes from the few states In the corn belt, where it is the com mon belief that hog raisers possess ad vantages that farmers in other sec :»5ons lack. This, however, is not alto g'-tlmr true. The South, the East and the extreme West possess advantages .if their own. and there is no reason x by the Industry should not be devel open'Ml extensively In those regions. The Sout h has an abundance of veg etation. C'owpeas, soy beans, velvet beans, and peanuts are leguminous crops which do well then 1 and have great value In pig raising. Corn grows rapidly in all parts of the South, and in the subtropical sections the experience of feeders with cassava Indicates that It has considerable value for pork production. In addition, there j GROW GRAIN SORGHUM Dne Means of Increasing Food Supply Needed Just Now. Kafir, Milo and Feterita Are Well Adapted to Dryer Sections of Southwest—Excellent Feed to Fatten Cattle. {Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Grain sorghums, Including kafir, milo and feterita, furnish one of the best opportunities in the dryer sec tions of the Southwest for Increasing the production of food In America this year. Although the grains from these •crops have not come into general use for food purposes, they have consider able food value and may be made Into palatable dishes when ground In mills or at home. However, those grains have come Into wide use for feeding livestock, and It is In this way that »they probably will be most useful this year. Their increased use as feeds would release for use as human food large quantities of the more common grains now fed to animals. Because the section in which grain sorghums may be grown to best advan tage is also the most important cattle raising section in the country, farm * o**s growing the sorghums can combine profitably the growing of those grains and the feeding of live stock. Most • of the cattle now raised in the grain sorghum growing country are shippo»l to the com belt for fattening on corn. The sorghum grains which, because of their relative newness, nre more difficult to market than corn, therefore are left largely unused In the regions of production and must be held until the supplies of corn have been used tip In large part, when the demand for feed grains draws them Into the mar ket. If the growers of grain sorghums will plan to carry more cattle this sea son and to fatten them on home-grown grain Instead of shipping them to the wirn belt to be finished, no difficulty will be experienced In marketing the sorghum grains. A ready market for nil the moat that can be produced this is a year is assured. The sorghum grains make good stock ■feed, having about 90 per cent the feed lng value of com. When these grains ran he produced or bought for less than 90 per cent of the cost of corn. It Is more profitable to feed them than to feed com. The fattening of cattle and other stock In the grain sorghum belt Is made the more profitable by the fact that this region Is close to the source of cottonseed meal one of the most nutritive protein concentrates for the feeding ration. The third type of feed needed for The efficient fattening of stock—succu 'lent material—may be produced by en siling the grain sorghums when the grain is In the hard dough stage. This «dinge is as high In food value as corn silage. Stock raising farmers In the sor ghum belt should plant a targe enough acreage to supply an abundance of pain and silage. Is generally an abundant water supply, the climate is mild, and there is a long period in which green feed is available. These conditions, which also lessen the expense of shelter and winter feeding, permit a long period of pasture and outdoor life. Hitherto, where corn has been cheap and abundant, it has been used so ex tensively for feeding to hogs that there is a widespread notion that it i9 the best feed. Investigations, however, have shown that it has Its disadvan tages ns well as its advantages. When It Is the exclusive grain feed, breed ing stock are not ns prolific as on a varied ration, and for fattening pur poses an exclusive corn diet is not generally profitable. The bog is natur* j ally a heavy and promiscuous enter. He thrives best where pastures are plentiful and grain crops, nuts, or roots are most abundant. He must have water at all times, and shelter in winter. If these conditions are met, hog raising can be made profitable out side of the corn belt as well as in it. Keep Turkeys Separated. If two turkey hens make nests near together, it Is often best to separate them, because otherwise both hens are likely to leave the nests with the poults of the first hatch, and the egg3 which are »lue to hatcli later will be spoiled. CARE F0R f^L mrlements Kec,) Bolts on Binders Tight by Going Over Machine Often—Have Ac cessories Handy. (By H. F. KIDDER. Louisiana Experi ment Station.) The life of the average farm Imple ment is too short. Grain binders last only four »>r five years on the average, while rice binders will perform their functions just one or two years. Most everyone has seen binders fifteen years old still doing good work. Why? Simply because care has been given them. All bolts k»'pt tightened by going over the machine twice a day or even more frequently Is an excellent thing. Further, the operator must be able to run his machine and keep a sharp lookout for loose parts. Jolting will, in time, loosen nuts unless thvy nre set. Robbing one implement for another is had practice. Farm laborers will invariably do this unless strict orders have been given to the contrary. A small room equipped with extra bolts, nuts and other accessories Is a neces sity. By giving attention even to the simplest of machines, its life will be prolonged, and the longer one can use a machine the greater lias been Its earning capacity. PROGRESS OF VELVET BEANS Crop Makes Rapid Strides Once They Begin to Make Vines—Harvest Very Late in Season. (By W. R. DODSON. Louisiana Experi ment Station.) Velvet beans should not, as a rule, l>e planted before the middle of June. They are slow In starting to grow, hut make rapid progress once they begin to make vines, planted In rows wider legumes; five to six-foot rows giv« satisfactory results, with the beanä two feet apart In the row. Velvet beans should be harvested as late In the season ns will permit of the completion of the harvest before frost. The vines continue to grow until frost kills them. If they are not harvested before they are frosted, then it is better to leave them until they are thoroughly killed and dried In the field and pasture them. Thev are generally üum othe p _ ...qq, w cod UflDQPQ WATER SUPPLY FUR HUHStS of Working Animals Should Have Op portunlty of Drinking at Least Fiva Times During Day. Three times a day Is not enough to water live stock. They should have, especially in hot weather, an oppor tunity of drinking at least five times dally—before each meal, and at in tervals of 2H to three hoars apart between meals. The animal that works In hot weather on a five or six hour stretch without water suffers Intensely from thirst. Frequent watering prevents water colic and other ill effects. Never allow 7 the animal to drink when rery hot. Always force him under such conditions to drink a Ufc tie at a time until satisfied* THE NEW GOVERNESS j 1 Ey Katherine Howe / :•:• * : : : CCopj right. 1317, by W. G. Chapman.! Mrs. Warren was deliirhtia! with the .lew governess. Kl sie and Jack were certainly net the easiest proimsitu'n to handle. Jack, the eldest, a hoy of nine years, was self-willed and hot tein pered, and Elsie, two yc was obstinate, and hot! erably spoiled. A suce ; iiis junior, •ere consid ion of gov ernesses bad come and gone in various states of dissatisfaction or disgust, so when the blue-eyed, soft-spoken little Russian applied for the position Mrs. Warren caught at her as a drowning man does at a straw. Sophie Torsky had gentle, well-bred manners, and her French was irre proachable, and Mrs. Warren reasoned that if the children got only a smut tering of these two desirable ncoom plishments it was better than a state of complete ignorance. As was to be expected there were at first, for two or three days, faint sounds of insurrection in the lesson room, hut after that things moved with surprising smoothness. Mrs. Warren was so surprised she determined to see liow it was done. She fourni that Miss Torsky had love, patience and firmness. She seemed to love tin* cliil dren, and had gained their confidence. "It seems almost too good to be true," said Mrs. Warren to lier brother one »'veiling when be bad run down to the country for a week-end with her. "Wliv. it's wonderful, the way she manages those children. John Bayard looked at his sister with a quizzical smile. He felt like «k - - m m Ox lYVy ms. m n y : A 222 & K n Overheard the Excited Voice of Miss Torsky. saying that in face of th® fact that they had never been managed at all, j something like n Judicious effort in ! that direction was very likely to pro duce good results. "She\s rather pretty, too," went on Mrs. Warren. "She has thq loveliest complexion, just pink and white. I>ut you'll see her at dinner. And I warn you. John, don't you dare to fall in love with her !" John's smile this time was rather more weary than quizzical. He was a man of about thirty-five, with a clear cut strong face, not handsome but wholesome and reliable. He leaned back in his chair, and said in a bored way: "Elsie, I'm Just about as tired of hearing that advice as you must be of giving it. Anyone would think j I was about the most susceptible boob on earth." "Oh, no, John; it's just because you're not susceptible that I'm afraid it would go hard with you if you did fall in love. You see, you're no longer a boy, and the measles always are a bit dangerous with grown-ups." "Don't worry," was Bayard's laconic response. Perhaps If Mrs. Warren had not been so anxious about it, the very thing she had feared might not have happened. But she saw by Monday morning it ha»L When her brother started for the train, he announced that he intended to be out again the following Saturday. This was so uu expected and unheard of, John's visits generally being weeks, and even months apart, that Mrs. Warren at once divined the cause. Her first Im pulse was to dismiss Miss Torsky. But no, that was not to be thought of; there were the children getting along so finely, and, besides, if John had fallen In love with the girl, nothing on earth would stop him. So Mrs. War ren decided she must let matters take their course. Sophie Torsky, on her part, seemed quite oblivious to the fact that she was a storm center. Perhaps she talked a little more than usual when Bayard came; bet that may have been because the ideas he expressed called Otit j kind 1 Bayar finie ! j k response of iter own. as well infortiied and had an I thot'irlit whiclt came out in a f fearlessness which delighted and egged him on. Site seemed different from any other woman to him. 1'erhaps she was, and ]>erli:tps it was only something different in him that found response in her. When Mrs. Warren discovered that iter opposition would effect nothing, site wisely determined, to make the best of it. After all, her brother's happi ness was the important thing, and she had no fault to tlnd with Miss Torsky. so for lier brother's sake she decided to help matters along, and to let the girl see that site favored the alliance. O : IMonday morning Bayaril ap peared at the breakfast table, pale and haggard. When he started to leave, he told his sister he might not be out again for some time. She at once divined what had happened, and 1 ! : ! , ; j j ; | | ! . j drew it from him. He had been re fused by Sophie Torsky. In amaze ment. Mrs. Warren asked him if the girl had given any reason. "Reason!" he cried. "Does a man ask for a reason? Isn't it enough to know, when he offers a woman his whole life, that she iloes not want it, that she does not love him?" Mrs. Warren could give no answer to this. She pressed his hand, and kissed him in tender sympathy, watch ing his going with an aching heart. One day a young man called to see the governess. From his name and appearance, Mrs. Warren at once judged he was a musician. When he had called three or four times at short intervals, she felt sure she had fourni the cause for her brother's dismissal. The young Russian was evidently the successful suitor. She wrote to her brother, telling him of her discovery. Sh<* now meant to cure him if she could. A tall, thick hedge separated the vegetable garden from the ornamental grounds about tlie place. And late in the afternoon Mrs. Warren, who to» ' a liveiv interest in the growin I i , ! ; ' ! ! of • ! nor saiaus . sill** of till i Miss Torsky. ovoriieard from the other hedge the excited voice of " she »xclaiined. "A not believe he is P'.ur "It is a lit* cruel lie ! I di ___ j letter had the opposite effect, and ! brought John Bayard speedily on the ried !" "Suppose I can prove it to you. What then?" asked a man. whose voie»- she recognized as the Russian's. "I do not care ! I should have to j see with my ow n eyes, before 1 would believe !" she said with inttmse feeling. "Oh, I know," he answered with a sneering inflection, "you must have trusted him entirely, but you must see now—" "I see nothing," she broke In fiercely, "but my faith in him. I know he will keep his promise!" "And it is two years now." he went on. "You would like to go back to your own people—hut you can't. Y»iu know that. With the shelter of my name, you could go." She interrupted him with passionati protest. "No! no4 never!" she cri»*»l, "Now go! I do not want to see you again !" "You will think hett»*r of that. It is not good-by, Sophie." Then he went. Mrs. Warren heard the crunching of Ids feet going down the graveled path, tin'll the sobbing »if the girl. She felt that in something which so closely concerned her brother's happiness she had a right to listen. Very quietly she drew y way, and went to the house. It seemed to her there was only one in ference to be drawn. Miss Torsky was hiding some secret. She had had a "past." This was the reason she would not marry John Bayard. Mrs. Warren felt it her duty in pursuance of the cure she was trying to effect, to tell her brother ail she had overheard, with her own inferences added thereto. But instead of working a cure, her scene. He told his sister that if the woman he loved had been through some great trial, and she had feared to toll him, that now was the time to let her know how great was his love for her. Sophie met him with a kind of gentle dignity, hut the second day had passed without his having managed an interview. Bayard was sitting with his sister in the living room, when Sophie en tered with a new Usht in her eyes. "Oh !" she said, "you have both been so good to me, I think you will be glad to know what has happened. About three years ago my father and I j were suspected of being revolutionists, ;in »l escaped from Russia just in time to save ourselves from being sent t.* Siberia. My father died In Rss than a year, and* I dare not return to my people. I was to have been married and marry me, and stay here. I lieartl from him for a year very regularly; then the letters stopped. They always came in care of the Russian consul, who knew my address. But he could tell me nothing. I never doubted has just come! ne has been in Si beria these terrible years. Tie has suffered the tortures of the mines, and he could not let me know. But now! Oh, thank God ! Hear what he says !" With tear-wet eyes, the girl read from a letter: "Beloved! I am coming to you ! The revolution has set me free ! Such a band as this never before trod these Siberian snows. The Irons have worn through our bleeding flesh, hut we feel It not. We sing hymns of thanksgiving! We know nothing hut the Joy of liberty. Hunger, pain, cold, j are nothing now. We are free." j When the girl paused, Mrs. Warren, with streaming eyes, took her in^ her j arms and kissed her. and John, taking j her hand said: "God bless you, fco iphie! He deserves youl" in a short time to Boris Kanoff, and it i was understood that as soon as lie I Boris. I knew if ! Women Playing as Big a Pari in Great World War as Are the Men JOHN BARRETT, Doctor cl the Pan-American Union ter wna todav is cipitat ideal demo reioirnized war, as it ' m-ver hav» as much i woman s ire playing juM a part in the struggle for humanity us am the o doubt the ambitions of male ru.vM usimc mail un; »..men for the pro no doubt if that n ».i me i'unmo» .... .. o . , which women's influence is dmy 1 all over Europe before the ill when the war is over, the world would sien this titanic combat of rulers and on the other hand, no question fight ins The European war ,, s » man's war. The women m re is nc Ido than the w» ,f the c( nflict. Tin re is racy in iad prevail the here is, that todav the women in every country at war are battles back of the*line just as bravely, loyally and faithfully as are t men in the long lines of front trenches and aeross the deadly readies o "No Man's Land." , , .. Now that the Tinted States has taken up the gantlet of war thro . defeat for the Lnited States v\nt the men. This is no exaggera It is an undeniable truth. down by the central powers, victory or depend as much upon the women as upon The more and the sooner the country ner will the conflict end suc tion. appreciates this fact, the surer and the soon cessfullv for our land and flag. Knowing, therefore, the capability and adaptability of our women, and ever holding in memory t t von cr,u self-sacrifice of our grandmothers, our mothers and our sisters, in former wars, let us draw conclusions from the recent experiments and achieve , merits of British and French women and make practical recommendations ! for the women, young, middle aged and old, of America. The first quality required of a woman, as of a man, for competen ; national service is loyalty. , , The second is efficiency in every action or duty, in behavior and char ' acter—an efficiency which makes one in every waking moment do every ! thing she has to do the best she knows how. ! The third quality expected is the ability to pick and perform unself • ishlv the work to which one is b< st suited, and which one can actually j do best, without regard to personal preference, pride, social ambition, or bodily comfort, but with due regard, of course, to one's physical strength and health. The fourth quality is that of practicing economy and avoiding extrav agance in all things. Duty of Every Young Man to Take Part In Practical Politics of Nation By WILL H. HAYS, Chairmta ol Republican Stale Committee of Indiana a To the young men of America I appeal for a larger interest in the politics of the country. The young men of today are the burden bearers of tomorrow. On the shoulders of the young voters will very soon rest governmental prob lems measured only by the vastness of the country's future. These difficulties must be met. This evolution is inevitable. To the young men of America I appeal. Become interested in poli tics. What we need more than all else in this country is an increased par ticipation by the good citizens of the country in the actual politics of the nation. To which party you may now be inclined is of less important« than that you seek for the truth, and, finding it, act and then act con tinuallv. From his earliest manhood until his death, Abraham Lincoln actively participated in the politics of the country. At no time in his incom parable career did lie think he was either too busy or too good to taka part in the practical politics of his community. He believed this to ba his dutv; otherwise he would not have none it. Thus acted the greatest character not divine that ever trod the earth—and what a condemnation is his conduct of those smug individuals who today sit with their hands folded and expect governmental affairs to be right, while they do nothing whatever to make them sol Things do not happen in this country—they are brought about ; and I have no use for the man who is either "too busy" or "too good" to interest himself in politics. Study the histories of the great parties; see what they have accom plished in the past and what they promise for the future, and then, in every instance, make up your mind and act accordingly. And let us be certain that we "join ourselves to no party that does not follow tha flag and keep step to the music of the Union." Producers Victims of Gambling System Dignified by Name of Speculation By CHARLES S. BARRETT Preiident Fanners' Educational and Co-operative Union of Amène» Anything done in the name of business so hypnotizes the American i pgQpjg that they become very polite, and thus it ba« come about that wa I dimiified gambling by calling it speculation. The difference between legitimate business and this gambling wmen we call speculation is that in an honest business transaction both parties to the deal are benefited, whereas in the speculative transaction one man must lose that another may win. In the long run the producers whose products are the counters in ! the gambling game are the big losers, though they may never have had any part in the gambling. For fourteen years we have been publishing this truth, but never have we been able to get a hearing. The cotton farmers of the South have in the last 49 years been robbed of fully eight thousand millions of dollars by the speculation in cotton. In the same period the wheat farmers have been mulcted in an equally large sum by the speculation in wheat. We can see now where some of the wealth produced in the country has gone. It has taken this frightful war, with all its calamities and suf ferings to open the eyes of the people to the evils of speculation. And even now they only see it because the food gamblers are making everybody pay the losses that they may pile up unearned millions. Now the people are talking about lampposts for food speculators. Even that drastic remedy would be merely treating a symptom. Th« disease must be eradicated. Wo must abolish speculation in all oui »rod'-uits.