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Show INCREASE IN SWINE Meat Problem Is Most Important Problem of War. FOOD ESSENTIAL FOR ARMIES Breeding Animals Must Reproduce Themselves So Offspring Will Be Available for Slaughter Market Mar-ket Grain on Hoof. (Prepared by the I'nlted States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) To raise more hogs, to get more meat to help win the war, Is one of the Important food problems of the country coun-try now. To supply this need, hog breeding must be Increased materially throughout the country, federal officials offi-cials declare, and In certain states an Increaae of -" to 60 per cent In the number of hogs on furms Is recommended recom-mended by the United States department depart-ment of agriculture. The situation Is of great Importance. We must have plenty of meat for our armies and the armies of the allies In the field, and sufficient meat for our civilian population and the clvlllun population of the allies nt home. To have this meat, breeding animals must reproduce themselves, bo the offspring off-spring will be available for slaughter In the future. Hogs can he Increased quicker than I any other kind of live stock. Therefore u larger number of sows must be bred now, thnn iu recent years. Abundance of Feed Crops. In addition to the fact thut there Is an Imperative demand for more meat as a war measure. It should be taken Into consideration that we now have an abundance of feed crops corn, onts anil barley wltli which to produce pro-duce this nocewiry Increase In the number of hogs. The demand Tor incut Is erlaln and It will be profitable to the farmer to market wane of thin heavy grain supply on the hoof. The Increuse In the namher of bogs for various states, as recommended by the department, Is as follows: Mis- I sourl, 50 per cent.: Alabama, 80; Iowa. ' 25; Kansas, 25; Indiana. L'O; Illinois, 20: Mississippi, L0; Arkansas, 20; ' South Onrollna. 15; Ohio, 15; Kentucky. Ken-tucky. 15; Tennessee. I.'i; Maryland. 1(1; North Carolina, 10; Michigan, 10; ' Nebraska. 10; West Virginia, 5, and (leorgla, ft. The Increase needed for the entire country Is 15 per cent, and Is covered by the above schedule. Other Oth-er states than those named shquld breed no fewer sows than Inst year. The result of these Increases will be to provide sufficient animals to make the meat that Is absolutely essential to the feeding of our armies. Pork Easy to Transport. I'ork can be transported more readily read-ily and economically to troops in the field than can any other meat. Oreat supplies of bncon must go to the boys In khaki nt the front. Unless now a larger number of sows are bred, the amount of meat we will require next year will not be available. The estimated number of hogs Is 4,-000)100 4,-000)100 less than It was a year ago In this country; and In the face of this we need more hogs than ever before. How can we get them? Hy breeding sows ut once. The exportation of pork products hns Increased since the war began and will continue to Increase during the length of the war. The foreign countries coun-tries are devoting their funning energies en-ergies to food and feed rather than live stock production, but they must have meat and they must get a large purt of this supply from us. Price Is Doubled. During the last three months the price of hogs In the United States has been, on the average, more than twice as much as the uvrago price for the live years from 1!11 to 1010. In view of the large crops of feedstuffs la sight, however, It believed that farmers farm-ers will see the wisdom of taking every ev-ery reasonable step to Increase the .supply of hogs and hog products. 'ij H -JL Ad 5 B . , lmm Mm i3l 5 " V JM DprfiR t mSn - v. ' "-"' ,:-' " ' - - ;' -'rf ivHPBWJBBWWy w ' v .' r" 'U- -.(si' . y- '&& j 6UCCULENT PASTURE FOR PIGS AFTER WEANING. |