Show washington digest swine industry develops N X I 1 feed conservation plan C D carpenter helps hog growers solve jj problems program tailored by cooperative business men of agriculture by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington glov D C when I 1 learned that a former feed man had been the moving spirit in dr drawing a wing up the present swine program gr am which be hearing about sh shortly 0 itly I 1 recalled an adage I 1 once he heard ard in london the profit in the mustard bustness business 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 en enough au gh and nobody could blame the mustard maker for hoping that you and I 1 would be as profligate with 0 our u r condiment as possible on that b basis I 1 was recently surprised to I 1 learn earn that the government had called in a m man an in the feed business and paid him a dollar a year to help solve the feed problem I 1 wondered if it just possible that maybe the consumer was going to suffer I 1 had a talk with some members of the department of agriculture after I 1 learned that this gent gentleman lerria h had d done so much for the poultry raisers that they picked him to help on the swine program which to is as closely connected with the feed problem as the fly is with the flypaper why should you pick a man wh whose ose interest it is to have the far farmer me r consume as much teed feed as po possible sible when there enough 1 feed aed to go around now I 1 asked this whole program the government official told me Is worked out by the swine industry itself the men who produce the hogs the men who process them help feed them distribute them the point the government merely cooper cooperates tea you had better talk to mr carpenter 11 I 1 did dollar a year clifford D carpenter carries the ti title tie 0 of f special assistant to the chief of the teed feed and livestock branch of the f food od production administration of the war food administration for that long title he gets the short shori tee fee of a dollar a year he has no desire to remain a public servant he wants to get back to his business 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 I 1 asked why when his business was to sell the former farmer as much teed feed as he could 11 because he said the success of the teed feed business lies in having efficient customers not careless we wa basters wasters s one of the w ways ays we bel helped ped to increase the poultry output was to teach the farmer to stop waste for instance you have no idea how much was saved by having 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 ore than that was something much simpler we got the farmer to fill all the teed feed receptacles three fourths full instead of brimming 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 business in government one of the good results which many persons feel will come by having businessmen in the many government agena agencies aes profitable patriotism the whole swine program has been tailored by the businessmen of the swine industry and that includes bludes the farmer who raises the hogs for he is a businessman too loo lass has to be if he be succeeds last month in chicago a group of these men got together representatives senta tives of hog farmers the breed ers era the veterinarians the packers the feed men the equipment manufacturers facture rs rr everybody interested in the whole cycle from the cheats flis squeal to the dining table its ICs patriotic to make your herd printable was the slogan this group worked out which was a sentence with a two way kick you can turn it around and it is just as true its profitable to make a patriotic herd these experts decided that there was plenty ot of feed obtainable in america to meet the war goals provided that certain conditions are carried out they agreed on tour four principles all ot of which lead to making efficient producers which they all decided Is both patriotic and profitable these principles are specific measures 1 better breeding to improve the size and quality of utters 2 conservation of available teed feed 8 tock stock 3 reduction of 0 loss through disease and parasites 4 improved management for or greater efficiency and production more specifically the five things necessary to produce the feed which is necessary to reach the animal food stuff goals are these 1 to teed feed no more than 14 pounds pound 9 of tor for one animal unit 2 to achieve the maximum use of pasture and grazing land 3 to seu sell the animal for meat before it becomes an inefficient converter of teed feed into food 4 to stop the loss caused by rats or spoilage or wastage in other ways 5 to bring about a higher standard in health in animals true cooperation those who are directly direct lv concerned in the production of swine are about to have the information that this thi meeting developed placed before them emphatically to in the farm trade papers over the radio in lectures from the county agents and through their own organizations so I 1 wont go into it in detail but the point that many will not realize Is that here has been a real achievement brought about by the cooperation of industry and government these hardhearted businessmen have produced a program which their action committee is going to do Us its best to put into effect through the various means of publicity and education which I 1 mentioned it was unanimously agreed thail tha the producers should plan to finish hogs at to pounds in order to make more efficient use of the feed and tor for the production of more meat and less lard per unit of feed they also emphasize the need of taking full advantage of clean pastures and they point out that the saving of from 5 per cent to 10 per cent of 0 the grain and from 30 per cent to 40 per cent of the protein supplements can thus be made for growing and fattening hogs there are recommendations tor for the control of diseases parasites and various vardoui other detailed instructions that ar ari going to be available in attractive printed form and distributed to the hog producers in all parts of the country and it uncle sam who to is te telling ailing lem em they aret are telling each other tor lot each others benefit manpower needs while everybody is talking about demobilization it seems strange that mobilization in many fields to is ot ill for far from being complete there are crying needs tor for man and wo woman m power in two phases of the war effort causing serious trouble the national advisory committee for aeronautics which Is the federal governments experimental and scientific research organization needs 1500 men without this complement the NACA director of personnel says the development and production of new and improved aircraft is being hampered the need Is localized in labors tories at langley field va moffett field calif and cleveland ohio engineers physicists chemists machinists ts toolmakers sheet metal workers instrument makers engine mechanics electricians pattern makers and other skilled tradesmen are arc needed at the same time the national advisory committee of the war manpower commission reports that the corps ot of the various armed services are falling failing far short of their enlistment quotas and many thousands of women also ere are needed in areas of labor shortage the committee Is urging organizations throughout the country to undertake the recruitment job as a major war effort B IR I 1 E F S by baukhage 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