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Let Your Light So Shine Before Men, That They May See Your Good Works, and Glorify Your Father Which Is in Heaven---St. Matthew 5:16
(Text for today was selected by Dr! Charles W. Daniel, Pastor First Baptist Church, Atlanta)
'Georgia Is Awakening to the
'Necessity of a Good Roads System
HE official approval given by chambers
T of commerce and boards of trade in
Y numerous (feorgia cities and towns to
the program of good roads legislation,
mapped out by the committee from the Gen
eral Assembly of Georgia appointed by Gov
ernor Dorsey, is gratifying to those who have
taken an aetive interest in attempting to
erystallize the universal sentiment in favor of
better roads inte some definite action that
will make these roads a reality.
It is especially gratifying te note the num
ber of county boards of commissioners that
have deelared in favor of a State highway
system, to be made possible under the pro
posed bill; for, there is perhaps no body of
men so mtimately representing the farmers.
And it s, after all, the FARMER who is
MOST VITALLY CONCERNED in the
good roads movementthough he has, per
haps, been slow to recognize it.
The eounty commissioners realize that a
system of main highways, paved and main
tained by the State highway commission by
a State bond issue, will relieve them of one
of their greatest problems -the building
and maimtenance of the less frequently used
roads past the farmers’ gates. For years
they have been foreed to spend the lion's
share of the conntry’s income upon the main
traveled roads, only to see ecach summer’s
work washed away by the next winter’s
rains. There has been nothing left to pay
for the roads “‘into the country.”’” But onee
relieved of the upkeep of the MAIN high
ways, the counties will be free to spend
their incoihes upon the lesser used country
roads; and within a few years they ean give
virtually every farmer a good road—in sum
mer and winter alike —past his own door.
These roatls, in most instances, will con
nect with the main highways (as spur rail
roads join their main lines) and the farmer
will be enabled to haul heavier loads, at
Brother Johnson Should Study the
Great Problem of Crop Diversification
The Georgian is in receipt of the following
letter:
Editor The Georgian:
Now that everybody is giving the farmers
s 0 much free advice in regard to cotton and
diversified farming, won't some one diversify
his advice and tell us hayseeders what to plant
in the place of cotton?
Peanuts failed to do what was claimed for
them, so that crop is only a small affair. But
the papers tell us to raise foodstuffs—they will
be at a good price for another year at least.
How do they know? What are the facts now?
Take corn: When a very few years back we
bought Western corn here we paid the West
ern price plus the freight Now we
sell corm, and we get the Western price
minus about twice the freight. So there
I 8 nothing to coen as a crop, unless we
tuny It into pork. But there again we strike the
roak. When we bought Western meat we paid
the Chicago price plus the freight, but now we
are selling meat and we get the Chicago price
minus five or six times the freight. What we
hog ratsers want to know Is, why the Govern.
ment fixes the price for Chicago and other
Western points at 174 cents and here at Moul
trie the price is even 12 cents for the same
grade of prime hogs.
Again, we want to know if the Southern
farmer is to be forever robbed of everything
he can possibly grow? Moultrie merchants,
clerks and cotton buyers tell me they pay from
35 to 50 cents per pound for meat. The packing =
house could afford to pay us 25 cents per
pound for hogs and make big money. | was
here when the Mouttrie Packing House was
first conceived, and know what Brooks sald =
they could accept as a profit and build the
packing house. | kmow there are a lot of ex *
cuses, such as owr hogs are peanutfed and
that our hogs don't’ dress out like Western
hogs. Who has any peanuts this time of year?
They have never made any difference here as
between peanut and cornfed hogs. The truth
is that a hog fed on peanuts potatoes and
beans and corn is the best meat on earth,
| frequently think it would be a good thing
If the Southern farmers would cut out one
entire crop, except just enough to feed them
selves. We need rellef on the price of hogs as
well as cotton, and | hope you will give the
packing houses an alring.
C. H. JOMNSON
Moultrée, Ga., Feb. 10, 1919,
Of eourse, if Brother Johnson doesn’t
know what he ean raise on his farm that will
pay exeept cotton, and can not possibly find
out, we should say that he wonld be wise te
eut his past year's cotton acreage thirty
three and one-third per cent and le§ the re
mamder of his land go idle.
To raise nothing whatever on that land
left ower would pay better than to raise cot
ton an it
R may be that he doesnt reccive a fair
priee for hogs. That's too bad, too, beecause
he says he can make the finest hogs on earth
by fatteming them on peanuts, corn, beans
and potatoes—which he could raise for that
purpose, if he mly ecould get a price for
the hogs, after he had raised them. He isina
melancholy fix—he’s like the man who said,
TRYUTEF, JUSTICE
« ATEANTA®SGEORGIAN -
twice the present speed, to his county seat or
market town. This will mean great things
to him-—access to the town for his wife, bet
ter schools for his children, cheaper deliv
ery of the world’s merchandise--FOR GOOD
ROADS WILL MEAN THE ELIMINA
TION OF LOCAL SHOR? - BAUL
FREIGHTS ON THE RAILROADS AND A
DEVELOPMENT OF MOTOR TRUCK EX
PRESS LINES, WHICH WILL DELIVER
GOODS AT THE FARMER'S GATE AND
RECEIVE HIS PRODUCTS IN RETURN.
Of especial interest to the farmer who has
studied the proposed good roads law is the
method of PAYING THE BILLS for these
permanent main highways.
It 18 true that they will be an automobil
ist’s paradise—but the automobilist will pay
for them, and the only eost to the farmer
will be the price of his automobile license
tag, if he owns a car, as most progressive
farmers do these days. The proposed lictnse
fee of an average of S2O a ear will provide
an income sufficient to pay the interest on
$40,000,000 of bonds and retire them at e
end of twenty years.
Many of the business organizations of
Georgia are advising Governor Dorsey to
call an extra session of the present Legisla
ture for some date early in the Spring,
order that a-year’s time may not be lost in
carrying out at least A PART OF the good
roads program, and making possible the use
this year of the $1,300,000 of Federal funds
waiting in Washington until Georgia shall
amend her State highway system and make
this money available for her roads.
The advocates of the extra session point
out several reasons why that would be pref
erable to leaving good roads legislation te
the next regular sedsion, the prineipal one
being the likelihood that the bill might be
lost in the inevitable confusion of the elos
ing days, as many other good bills have been.
“If I had some ham, I would have some ham
and eggs, if 1 had some eggs.”’
Still, it will not get him anything te stick
strietly to cotton, even if he ean not find out
what to raise that will pay him better than
cotton. If he and the other farmers of the
South stiek to that all-cotton theory, they
will never get a fair price for cotton, nor
“for anything else. Wherefore they woyld
better get out of the farming business en
tirely.
Brother Johnson, however, CAN raise
something else besides cotton on his farm;
other farmers, perhaps some of them in his
neighborhood, are doing it; it likely is true
that even for some of these other crops they
are not yet getting fulty fair prices; but
they are not being foreed to accept suicidal
prices, nevertheless,
The problem of crop diversification pre
sents i‘s diffieulties and vexations, to be
sure; and, by the way, the State Department
of Agriculture is only too glad to help solve
it for individuals when called upon. Sup
pose Brother Johnson makes inquiry there;
they will tell him what his farm is best
adapted to. ~
In the meantime, he should get that cot
ton-cotton-nothing-but-eotton notion abso
lutely out of his head. He's a‘' goner,” if he
doesn’'t
THE COMIC OPERA
EX KING OF PORTUGAL
“1f Portugal needs me,”” says the exiled
young man who used to be King of that
countrys ‘‘then 1T am ready to do my duty.”’
If Portugal needs him !
The most innocent thing that Manuel ever
did was to flirt with a French actress and
make her famous. He has no ability, no
character, no eonscience, .
The Portuguese might have sorted over
the whole population of Portugal and not
have found anybody they could more easily
get along without. He is about as much
needed in Portugal as the Spemish influenza.
But the fact that he thinks he would be
doing his country a favor if he returned to
his royal almshouse is interesting evidence
of what the institution of hereditary kingship
and hereditary nobility or privilege of any
kind--does to man. From a person much
brighter than Mannel, but not of royal blood,
the same statement would be received with
hoots, as evidence of a colossal egotism. But
becanse Manuel’s ancestors have not been
good for anything for many generations——
that is, because they were royal-—he is taken
seriously
Even in England the home of Bernard
Shaw, 1. Q. Wells, Keir Hardie and the
Labor party, people turn to look at this in
significant little gentleman because they see
in him some faint, far suggestion of that
divine right, for asserting which their own
ancestors eut off King Charles’ head.
Thursday, February 13, 1919
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Comment
ANTI-TOBACCO CRUSADE.
(Tampa Tribune.)
All this talk about a constitution
al amendment prohibiting the man
ufacture, sale or importation of to
bacco sounds to The Tribvne a good
deal like propaganda, and it is just
about as tactful a form of propa
ganda as that which we have come
to regard as typically German. No
body with a thimbleful of brains
believes that there is the slightest
danger of a prohibition law of the
kind snegested, any more than in
tellizent people believe there is an
affinity between the use of the com
forting weed and the cup that in
ebriates.
With a ecertain class of half
haked reformers it has been usual
to couple tobacco and brooze, but
such persons have no influence over
g@ither the morals or the manners
of the people. Tobacco is benefi
eial, it is a solace and a consolation,
and it is conceded by those who are
best qualified to speak that it con
tributes to the sobriety of the na
tion. The use of tobaceo never yet
cost any man his fortune—or his
job, nor did it ever awaken the im
pulse to steal or Kkill.
DEEP STUFF.
(Columbus Enquirer-Sun.)
“Fast girls are sometimes slow
in catching husbands,” says The
Convers Times. let's see what Jack
Patterson is trying to say, anyway.
Now, if he means that other wom
en's husbands are difficult to catch
by fast girls, we are going to con
sult our lawyer before sayving any
thing, but if he means that it is dif
ficult for them to catch men who
will be their husbands, then that is
a horse of another cojor,
IF ONLY SOMEONE WOULD.
(Macon Telegraph.)
Eye glasses for which a British
patent has “been granted can be
folded wnen idle to resemble a
locket and worn on a chain as an
wornament, says a news isem. Now,
if some genius will lope into the
breach and invent éye glasses that
will stick omr a fellow's nose when
sald fellow sneezes before he knows
it, life will take on a brighter hue.
THERE ARE C. P’S AND C. P.'S,
(Rome Tribune-Herald.)
The Crown Prince of Hedjaz is
hanging around the peace confer
ence a good deal wxxer man than
the ex-German Crown Prince, who
spends his time fishing on the
coast of Holland,
NOW YOU KNOW, MAYBE.
. (Birmingham Age-Herald.)
The Columbia Record wonders
how mueh more a Zmrus girl is
paid than a rural school ma'am.
One is paid for what she knows,
the other for what she shows.
DEVELOPING
b(T R e, )
Lo Es s L
DEAR EDITOR.
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YOU DON'T know it.
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BUT FOR the past week.
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OUT HERE in the West.
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I'VE HAD something.
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THAT THE doctor told me,
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WAS NEARLY the flu.
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AND 1| couldn't work.
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AND ALL that saved me.
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FROM HAVING failed.
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TO SEND back the bacon,
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WAS THE two a day.
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THAT | had written.
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DURING THE weck before.
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AND THE way I date them,
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IT MAKES you think
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| WRITE one each day
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AND THE only reason
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I'M TELLING you this,
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IS THE doctor says.
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I'M NOT well yet.
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AND I'VE got to be careful.
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AND NOT do anything.
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FOR THE next few days.
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AND | think he's right.
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BECAUSE THE way 1 feel,
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I'M NOT very happy. ;
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AND MY mind doesn’t work
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AND I'M a little wahhiy.
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AND | want to tell yon,
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THAT IF it should happen.
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You DC!N"‘r hear from me.
.
FOR THE next few days.
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You'LL KNO'W I'm resting.
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AND Wq!!!.l'm going.
THEY HAVE lots of cows,
AND SCORES of hens.
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AND IT'S all out doors.
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FOR MILES and miles.
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AND DRINKING fresh milk.
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AND EATING fresh eggs.
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AND BREATHING fresh air.
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.THE DOCTOR savs,
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THAT IN less than a week,
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I CAN drive a plow.
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BUT, OF course, I won't.
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AND, ANYWAY.
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IT WILL be the first time,
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IN THE past five years
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THAT I'VE quit for a day.
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AND | hate to do it.
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BUT THE way 1 feel.
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THIS VERY minute,
WHILE I'M sitting here,
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AND WRITING this.
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I'VE GOT to do it
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AND THEN, besides,
| WANT to ask vou.
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IF IT wouldn't be foolish,
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TO PAY a doctor
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FOR TELLING vou something.
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THAT YOU ought to do.
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AND THEN not do it
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AND PARTICULARLY so.
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IF YOU wanted to do.
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WHAT THE r.loctor told you.
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YOU OUGHT to do
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IF YOU get what I mean
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AND IF you'll excuse me
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FOR JUST a few days
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I'LL 'BE much obliged
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~—| THANK vaon
PUBLIC SERYICE
- Sinn Fein Policy
} Defended
E-—.—__._——-—————-—————l
By PATRICK E. WALSH.
N a recent communication Mr.
l John Dillon, leader of the Irish
Parliamentary party, condemns
the Sinn Fein policy of abstention
from the British Parliament,
When Mr. Dillon entered the
British Parliament, in 1880, the pop
ulation of Ireland, according to the
figures of the British Government,
was 5.202,648. The latest British
official figures to hand (1917) set
the population down at 4,337,000-—a
loss of 865,648, or over 16 per cent,
During the same period the popula
tion of England has increased by
over 35 per cent.
In 1880, when Mr. Dillon went to
Westminster, the revenue collected
in Ireland by the British Govern
ment was $30,181 213, or $5.80 per
head of the population. For the
year ending March 31, 1918, the
Irish revenue was $134,325,000, or
$30.97 per head. Mr. Thomas Lough,
a British M. P, esfimates that the
revenue which the British Govern
ment will extract from Ireland for
the current fiscal year will be $200,-
000,000,
In short, since Mr, Dillon entered
the British Parliament, 38 years
ago, Ireland's populatlon‘,:ms de
creased by 16 per cent, iile her
taxation has inereased by only 345
per eent during the same period!
All this should be sufficient to
show the futility of Mr. Dillon's
“penny-wise and dollar-foolish”
policy of Irish attendance at West.
minster, even though there were no
qQuestion of national principle in
volved. Ireland is outvoted seven to
one in the British Parliament, and
when any question of vital im
portance affecting Ireland comes up
in that Parliament the Irish rzp
resentation is powerless. This fvas
especially evident when the Irish
conscription bill was introduced
during the present year. Mr, Dil
lon and his party, finding that they
were powerless to prevent the pas
sage of this bill, had to adopt the
Sinn Fein policy of abstention. Yet
the people of Ireland, without rep.
resentation in the British Parlia
ment, defied the British Govern
ment to enforce the conseription
act, -
Mr. Dillon is already a discréd.
ited politician, and his utterances
do not count for much in the estj
mation of the Irish people.
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By Arthur Brisbane.
HROUGH the bright Sabbath
T sunshine of this week
a train, escorted by Gov
ernment guards heavily armed,
came, traveling to the Atlantie
from the Far West, carrying a
load of men described as “I. W,
W. trouble makers, bearded labor
fanatics and red flag supperters,
huddled in crowded berths.”
These men, selected by Govern
ment detectives, picked up quietly
and swiftly, will be shipped from
the United States to the countries
from which they came by this Gov
ernment, which wants peace for re
construction.
It was an interesting trainload,
a new, interesting sight and inci
dent in United States history.
One guard in charge of these de
ported agitators said something
that may interest Senators who are
discussing free speech, the espion
age act and the desirability of reg
ulating by law what men say and
write. =
“We let 'em howl and wave the
‘red flag as much as they wanted
to after we left Seattle, and when
they found that they oould do it
without scausing anybdy trouble
they quit and have been quiet ever.
.since.”
Possibly the policy that worked
well with the agitators locked up
in the Pullman cars might work
fairly well throughout the country.
Senators who recently defeated
Mr. Borah’'s attempt to restore to
life the constitutional guaranty of
free speech said they couldn’t
allow free speech or free writing
because “they must squelch Bol
shevism.” Has it occurred te Sen
ators that in Russia, where Bol
shevism was born, free speech and
free writing were most effectively
squelched by a line of czars and
their secret police? Sitting on the
safety valve didn't work in Russia.
Why should it work in the United
States?
In England, on the other hand
where any man can say anything
and print anything, wave any fig,
red, green or purple, they have
managed to maintain order under
difficult conditions. The English
believe, as did the guard on the
1. W. W. deportation train, that if
you “let 'em howl and wave the
red flag as much as they want to”
they will be content. Dissatisfac
tion is a force very much like
steam. Let it escape in driblets
and it does little harm. Bottle it
up and you may have trouble.
While the foreign born agitators
were traveling on Sunday, taking
their last look at the home of the
free and the land of the brave,
American born ladies were having
a curious party in Washington.
They had a little doll two feet
long which they called Woodrow
Wilson and burned solemmly in
front of the White House'because,
as they said, Woollrow Wilson
didn’t “force the Senate to pass the
Suffrage Amendment.”
It is preposterous that this na
tion, which is doing more talking
than all the others put together
about democracy and freedom,
should now be the only Anglo-
Saxon Government in the world
that keeps women political slaves
England, Russia, Hungary, Austria
Germany treat all women as human
beings, with the right to share in
making laws that govern them
This country does not. Neverthe
less, the, ladies are foolish and un
just when they burn the President
in effigy. For he has done more
for suffrage than any other man in
the United States.
You read that the District and
military police were assisted by
Boy Scouts. It would be well to
let Boy Scouts keep out of the en
terprises in which women are ar
rested,
In America, where women are
classed as non-voting idiots, In
dians and children, little boys
learn contempt for women easily
enough. To permit them as chil
dren to assist in arresting the
mothers of other*boys, and thus
develop early their contempt for
women is rank stupidity and bru
talizes them unnecessarily.
Food prices are coming down
because they must. You would
hardly suspect, as you shop for
something to eat, that there Is
more faod in the United States
t'hzm the mouths of the United
States can use. And European
countries are doing their buying
largely in South American, Aus
tralia and other places where
prices are lower,
Here are facts to cheer up Mgh
cost of lving vietims: Pork will
be cheaper. . There are in the
Unifed States now sixteen millions
six hundred thousand more swine
than in 1914, when the war began
and this in spite of the tremendous
shipments to Burope. At an aver
age weight of two hundred pounds
per hog, dressed, that would be
thirty-two pounds more pork for
‘l‘}"'"." man, woman and child in the
e ,
o ca av o
nearly three r:itlllifiili:lp diirr"i;g the
war, and cattle for beef more than
eight and a half millions. The
prices of milk, butter and beef
e ot el e s
ing ;prices up‘.w methods for hold-