Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1917 — CAMPAIGN BEGUN FOR MORE MEAT [ARTICLE]

CAMPAIGN BEGUN FOR MORE MEAT

State Veterinarian Appeals to Farmers to Fatten Hogs and Starts Clearing Hofse.

With plans for more gardens and more acreage for farm products well hinder way, Di-. L. E. Northrup, acting state veterinarian, has outlined a plan whereby he hopes to increase the meat yield tremendously. A part of the plan is to stop the sale of light hogs, those weighing only abflSt 100 pounds, for immediate slaughter. He would have these hogs pass to the farmer who has the corn to feed them and double their - weight, instead of to the slaughter Mouse.. He intends to - make his office a clearing house for light hogs. Farmers who have light hogs to sell will be urged to list their hogs with the state veterinarian, who will find buyers among farmers who have corn to feed them. In this manner hogs will 'be going on the market for slaughter at 200 instead of 100 pounds. The extra weight can ibe added within ninety days, Dr. Northrup says. < Farmers have been slow to buy light feeding hogs at the stock yards because of the danger of hog cholera, but Dr. Northrup proposes to reduce this danger to the minimum. Feeding hogs bought at the stock yards will be doubly immunized, being both dinped in disinfectant and vaccinated, and after they have gone to a farm for feeding they will be kept in quarantine, as a final precaution, for thirty days. Dr. Northrup has received reports from many farmers showing that they have followed this plan with pej-fect safety. Dr. Northrup is also urging farmers not to dispose of their brood sows, notwithstanding the temptingly high prices. Eight federal veterinarions, co-op-erating with the state veterinarian, already are at work in the state in an energetic fight against cholera and other diseases, and the work they are accomplishing is so effective that Dr. Northrup has applied to Washington bo have two more assigned to Indiana. As a part of the campaign against cholera and for the conservation of the meat, supply, Dr. Northrup has divided the state into fourteen districts, appointing one deputy for each district, consisting of from four to six counties^—These deputies, in-_ stead of being paid an annual salary as under the old system, will be paid only for the time they actually spend at the work. With these deputy veterinarians scattered over the state it will be possible for the state veterinarian to get quick action in any county in which there should be an outbreak of disease. Harvey J. Kannal, of this city, is one of the deputies. “The quickest way to increase the food supply, so far as meat is concerned, is to keep the hogs until they have reached the 200-pound mark,” said Dr. Northrup. “Those farmers who can not keep hogs that long should sell them to the farmer who has the com. We hope to hear from all farmers and others who have light hogs to sell. We will have no trouble in finding buyers.” -■■■—■ Dr. Northrup laid his .plan before Governor Goodrich and the governor expressed his interest. The governor said that increasing the meat supply is quite as important as increasing ; the acreage of grain and vegetables.