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Show . V-- THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION -- J. 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 News Analyst and Commentator. t Zmms WNTJ 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, I recalled an adage I once beard in London: "The profit in the mustard busi-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 consumer's waste is the producer's gain. The proposition seems logical enough and nobody could blame the mustard-make- r for hoping that you and I would be as profligate 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 as much feed as possible, when there isn't enough feed to go around now?" I asked. "This whole, program," the gov-ernment 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. That's the point. The government merely cooperates. 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 busi-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. I asked why, when his business was to sell the, farmer as 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 Af 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 fill the feed receptacles three-fourth- s 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 other's efficiency that, he pointed out, is the benefit derived from busi-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-cludes 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-facturers everybody interested in the whole cycle from the shoat's Erst squeal to the dining table. "It's patriotic to make your herd proftable" was the slogan this group worked out which was a sen-tence with a two-wa- y kick you can turn it around and it is just as true "it's profitable to make a pa-triotic herd." These experts decided that there was plenty of feed obtainable in America to meet the war goals, pro-vided that certain conditions are carried out. They agreed on four principles, all of which lead to mak-ing 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 litters , (2) conservation of available feed stock (3) reduction of loss through dis-ease and parasites (4) improved management for 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 feed no more than 14 pounds of feedstuff for one animal unit (2) to achieve the maximum use of pasture and grazing land (3) to sen the animal for meat, before it becomes an inefficient con-verter of feed into food (4) to stop the loss caused by rats or spoilage or wastage in other ways (5) to bring about a higher stand-ard in health in animals. True Cooperation Those who are directly concerned in the production of swine are about to have the information that this meeting developed placed before them emphatically in the farm trade papers, over the radio, in lectures, from the county agents, and through their own organizations, so I, won't 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 hardhearded businessmen have produced a program which their action committee is going to do its best to put into effect through the various means of publicity and edu-cation which I mentioned. It was unanimously agreed that the pro-ducers should plan to finish hogs at 200 to 240 pounds in order to make more efficient use of the feed and 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 the grain, and from 30 per cent to 40 per cent of the protein supple-ments can thus be made for grow-ing and fattening hogs. There are recommendations for the control of diseases, parasites and various other detailed instructions that are going to be available in attractive printed form and distributed to the hog pro-ducers in all parts of the country. And it isn't Uncle Sam who is "telling 'em." They are telling each other for each other's benefit. Manpower Needs While everybody is talking about demobilization, it seems strange that mobilization in many fields is still far from being complete. There are crying needs for man and wom-an power in two phases of the war effort causing serious trouble. The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which is the federal, government's experimental and sci-entific research organization, needs 1,500 men. Without this comple-ment, the NACA director of per-sonnel says "the development and production of new and improved aircraft is being hampered." The need is localized in labora-tories at Langley Field, Va., Moffett Field, Calif., and Cleveland, Ohio. Engineers, physicists, chemists, ma-chinists, toolmakers, sheet metal workers, instrument makers, engine mechanics, electricians, pattern makers and other skilled tradesmen are needed. At the same time, the National Women's Advisory committee of the War Manpower commission reports that the women's corps of the vari-ous armed services are falling far short of their enlistment quotas and many thousands of women also are needed in areas of labor shortage. The committee is urging women's organizations throughout the country to undertake the recruitment job as a major war effort. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS U. S. Forces Clean Up Hollandia Area; WFA Announces Dairy Subsidy Rates; Heavy Hog Shipments Glut Markets; Aerial Attacks Weaken Nazi Defenses Released by Western Newspaper Union. Italy- - Italian farmer, are shown clearing vineyards of mall vol-canic .tone fragments .pewn by belching Mount Ve.uviu.. FLOODS: Field Work Halted Floods and heavy rain sweeping the country retarded field work and rail shipments alike, in addition to causing extensive property damage and loss of life. In the middlewest, farm work was as much as three weeks behind schedule, with only half the oats sown in Iowa, and much of that acreage planned to be diverted to corn and soybeans in Illinois. Warm, sunny weather was needed in the winter wheat belt in the southern great plains area. Because of blight and excessive moisture, the south-east feared for its potato crop. Vegetable and fruit produce to northern markets from the west and south was held up by flood conditions through the Mississippi river basin. A stimulus to the black market was feared through the pos-sible diversion of crops to trucks. PACIFIC: Nearer Philippines Heavy U. S. bombers were within 1,400 miles of the Philippines with the Doughboys' capture of three airfields around Hollandia in northern New Guinea following a whirlwind inva-sion, which Gen. Douglas MacArthur claimed sealed off 140,000 Japs. Reinforced by additional troops, British and native units in eastern India braced for a showdown strug-gle with invading Japs, aiming for the Bengal-Assa- railroad supply-- DUCKS t Population Up With mallards most numerous, the duck population now approximates 125,000,000, according to figures of Frederick C. Lincoln, chief of migra-tory birds investigation of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife service. Mallards now make-u- 35,000,000 to 40,000,000 of the duck population, Lincoln said, with pintails second with 20,000,000, and bluebills third with 15,000,000. Marked increases also were noted for d ducks and. coots and mudhens. Because of the continuing de-crease of woodcocks, however, it has been indicated that the season may be closed on them next fall, along with the Jacksnipes. BUSINESS: Oil Supply Because a tremendous area of prospective oil territory remains to be tested and petroleum could be produced from enormous reserves of coal and shale, the U. S. need have no undue concern over future oil supphes, Edward G. Seubert, presi-dent of Standard Oil company of Indiana, told stockholders in the course of a report on the firm's busi-ness in 1943, showing profit of $50,591,371. At the same time, President Ralph W. Gallagher of Standard Oil com-pany of New Jersey, in announcing profits of $121,327,773 for 1943, told shareholders that although the U. S. was assured of sufficient oil in the future, two principal problems existed, namely, discovery of more oil, and insitution of sound, world-wide conservation policies to pre-vent wastage in production. MAIL ORDER: Legal Battle Ground was laid for one of the U. S.'s most historic legal battles when the govern- - ment forcibly took over Montgomery EJri?r''' Ward and compa- - ny's big Chicas ' plant following its II Jfi refusal to accept a I presidential order I1-- , ' - 1 to obey a War La-- I I bor board's direc- - I ' 1 tive to extend a con- - " tract with the CIO's Sewell Avery Mail Order, Ware-house and Retail employees Local 20 until the union's bargaining rights could be determined. Claiming that the WLB had no su-pervision over Ward's because it cannot be classed mm as a war plant, W Ward's ' President Sewell i I Avery stuck to his guns to the last, (j finally being carried '" 4 from the plant by ,s ' J U. S. troops when j, V1 refusing to recog- - ";'" "t J nize the govern- - J ment's occupancy. As both sides W.C.Taylor squared for a court battle, Undersec-retary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield Taylor took over operation of the plant, lacking cooperation from some Ward officials standing loyally beside Avery. CIVILIAN GOODS: Increase Opposed While congressional leaders pressed for an increase in output of civilian goods in view of a surplus of certain materials and cancellation of some war contracts, government of-ficials cautioned against any consid-erable boost in production over present levels. War Production Czar Donald Nel-son said military output must be in-creased in the immediate future and maintained at high peaks until ac-tual needs for operations in western Europe are established. Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson opposed any notable switch to civilian production on the grounds that it would create un-founded optimism and lead to a rush from war plants to obtain job? in consumer goods industries. QUEBEC: Overseas Service Paced by Nationalist Member Rene Chalout who declared that any fighting forces should be fur-nished by the U. S., Britain, China and Russia because only they stand to gain anything from the war, the Quebec provincial legislature cast a 55 to 4 vote expressing of disapproval any move to send Canadian con-scripts overseas. Said Chalout: "Conscription for military service in Canada was insti-tuted because there was supposed to be danger of invasion. If federal authorities were sincere at the time they should abolish it now since' there is no more danger of an inva-sion of Canada." The legislature acted after the Ca- nadian national defense minister de- clared draftees could be used over- seas if appropriate measures were taken by the government. 'IRON RATIONS' American and British troops in India will eat a new and perhaps tastier meal when in tight spots These emergency meals, packed in large cans, are informally known as iron" rations. The condensed food is packed in a can sufficient for eight men for one day, and consists of corned mut- ton, vitamized" crackers, tea, jam chocolate, chewing gum, salt, sugar' grapefruit juice (for Americans) and emonade powder (for B itish troops). Cigarettes are included EUROPE: Invasion Aivaited With huge concentrations of ship-ping reportedly massed in British ports and the Allied aerial attacks continuing in unprecedented force, Nazi Europe nervously awaited the historic and heralded invasion. While the U. S. and British pre-pared for hostilities in the west, the Russians were reportedly organizing strength for a new drive into east-ern Poland, presumably to synchro-nize with the invasion. As the Rus-sians gathered their new forces, the Axis armies in southeastern Ruma-nia stiffened resistance and parried Red thrusts along the Dniester river front. Western Europe found no rest by day or night as British and Ameri-can heavy, medium and light bomb-ers smashed at the Germans' vaunt-ed concrete and steel Atlantic wall, French and Belgian rail lines over which the enemy could be expected to shuttle troops to meet invasion forces, and German industries sup-plying the wehrmacht, AGRICULTURE: Hog Glut In the woke of the government's move to buy all corn in 125 counties for sorely pressed processing industries, heavy hog shipments clogged slaughtering cen-ters, resulting in embargoes in some centers, notably St. Louis, Mo., and Peoria, 111., . The large shipments were believed also influenced by short feed sup-plies after two years of extensive use of grain for, fattening record numbers of stock, and the govern-ment's plan for a minimum price of $12.50 per hundredweight for this fall. Taking note of the dwindling feed stocks, OPA announced that effec-tive May 15, the ceiling price on hogs over 240 pounds would be cut to $14 per hundredweight, to discour-age heavy finishing off. Dairy Subsidy i To erfcourage conservation of grains during the pasture season to provide for heavier feed during the fall and winter months, the War Food administration announced sub-sidy payment rates for dairy produc-tion for the next 11 months. Although rates , during the next four months will range from 35 to 65 cents a hundred pounds for whole milk and 6 cents a pound for butter-fa- t, beginning September 1 and end-ing next March 31, rates will range between 60 to 90 cents for whole milk and 10 cents for butterfat. Estimated to cost between and $400,000,000 annually, the whole program is dependent upon congressional appropriations for ad-ministrative expenses, WFA said. RATIONING: More Butter Because of record stocks in ware-houses and freezers, 35,000,000 pounds of 'country butter will be available for civilian use in May at 8 red points per pound, along with 112,000,000 pounds of creamery but-ter at 12 points. At the same time, OPA announced that more and better ice cream will be produced in May and June, fol-lowing permission to manufacturers to increase output to 75 per cent of 1941 figures, and to use a mix 1 to 3 per cent richer in butterfat con-tent. In addition, reductions in point val-ues are scheduled for flank beef-steak, lamb and mutton, variety cuts of pork and veal, dried beef, potted and dried meats, and sausages. ing Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell's Al-lied forces, clearing a path for a new communication line to China through northern Burma.. Encountering light resistance, U. 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The stranded men then send the para-trooper bird back with a message of their needs and condition, according to the Canadian Information bulletin, Weekly Editor Looks at Ottawa. The U. S. army will need 75,000 to 100,000 men monthly to maintain its peak strength of 7,700,000 per-sons, according to the war depart-ment. The navy will need 400,000 additional personnel by September 1 to get the navy, marine corps and coast guard up to peak strength of 3,500,000. Buy War Bonds HIGHLIGHTS .. . in the week's news I KNOX DIES: Secretary of Navy since 1940 during which time the fleet became the greatest in the world with a strength of over 4,000 ships end 25,000 planes, Frank Knox suc-cumbed to a heart attack in Wash-ington, D. C, at 70. Knox served with the 153rd artillery during last war. Noted as a newspaper pub-lisher, Knox was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 1936. BASEBALL VETERAN: Tony Mullane, oldest major league base- ball star, died in Chicago at 85 He first played with the St. Louis Browns and later went to the Cin cinnati Reds as their star pitcher He ended his career in 1897 with the St. Paul club. Another claim to fame was that he was said to be the only pitcher who could throw with either hand. |