The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, June 04, 1919, Image 17
MEAT PRODUCTION
SMASHES RECORD
Twenty Billion Pounds Is Total
for United States In
1918.
FARMER WAS -IG FACTOR
Output Ncver Approached in Magni
tude in rhis or Any Other Country
-Striking Increases in Ex
ports Are Shown.
Washington. - Amerlean dressed
imeat pro(lttiu onl, inciliiling lard,
amiounfted in 1918 to 20,121,800,000
pouids--n Ottanililily never before ap
prached in magnilitde by the live
stock industry of 'Ils or any other
country. The corresponding figure for
1917 was 10,317,300,0() pounds.
Three-fourths of the enorttous in
crease was in pork and one-fourth was
in heef.
The ient surplus in 1918 was so
great that extra export demands made
little imtlpression oil it, although 1918 ex
port shipients of uieat and lard nearly
doubled the 1917 figure--rising from
slightly less than 1,750,000,000 pounds
to slightly more thian 8,000,000,000
pounds--and these figures do not in
clude shipments to American military
forces abroad.
The aggregate 1917 consumption of
dressed meatf ail lard in the United
States was approximately 14,500,(K),
000 pounds. This means, after allow
ing for Increase in population an addl
tion of 23 pounds for( every man, wom
tin and child in the country-despite
the food-conservation campaign which
in 1917 caused consutiption to decline
considerably.
Farmer Was Big Factor.
"While the people, as a whole,
through their abstinence averted the
immediate crisis, it was the farner
who was the really big factor in the
itltialite sittuation," says the Iureau of
animal industry, United States depart
ment of agriculture. "The producer,
of course, was expicted to do his part,
but he did it with such powerful effect
that in a singlo yeara- the meat shortage
was tu raned ito ait proniouncied surplus.
Thus in 1918 there wit naot only aieat
enaough to suipply iall fo-eignl dematids
comlttible w'it Iho restirit-ted shipping
favelities, hut it greally ianlatrged qialn
tity was ivilale fori. ite homite coa
s.iinnptiont.
"To be sur, it cost the farmiaer- maor-e,
miuch nor-, to feed his naimias m id
gut. tlieiii toi m arkel. Likew'ise, aili othier
steps u prlusicer to coaasiaanner, be
came more costly, binee the high
prices. itit hlie uni alraeedanted prosper
Ity (if the ieodpe, as it whole, eabled
tlt-Im to alfoiird tho inaereased cost. In
fact, -inh inilg people11 prob1e11y
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sunica more meat during the last year
than in prewar tines.
"Tie total number of cattle slaugh.
tered In 1918 Is estimated at 15,750,400,
as against 13,723,900 In 1917. Their
average weights were prae ,Ically the
same for both years, and the beef pro
duced from them was 0,080,000,000
pounds In* 1917 and 7,041,000,000
pounds In 1918. This was a remarkable
achievement, as it hardly would have
been credited that beef growers could
increase their production a million
pounds in one year.
Results Called Stupendous.
"The hog inatures quickly, therefore
a much more rapid Increase would be
looked for than was the ease with cat
tie. Even so, the results for 1918 can
be described only as stupendous. The
hogs marketed In 1918 numbered 609,
851,700, as against 57,483,800 In 1917.
Furtherniore, the average weight was
nine and a half pounds inore per hog
in 1918. Thus when the animals are
turned into pork and lard we have a
total production of 11,225,03-1,000
pounds In 1918, as agaInst 8,478,281,
000 pounds In 1917, an increase of 2,
7417,355,000 pounds, or 32.4 per cent,
nearly one-third."
Striking Increases in exports also are
shown by the bureau. Beef sipinent-i
abrond in 1918 were 94 per cent more
than In 1917-the chluf 1918 Items be
Ing 5141,000,000 pounds of fresh beef
and 141,000,000 pountds of canned beef.
Exports of pork and lard In 1918
amounted to 2,279,287,030-whIch was
71.7 per cent more than the quanti y
sent abroad In 1917.
The bureau shows that In the aggre
gate more meat by far Is enten In the
United States than in any other coun
try In the world-although some
sparsely settled countries raising much
mcat have a larger per capita consump
tion. It also says that there is roon
in the United States for a great expan.
bion in the use of mutton and lamb.
ARMY TRUCKS TO BUILD ROAD
War Department Turns Over to Agri.
cultural Department 20,000 for
Use of States.
Washington.-More than $45,000,000
worth of motor trucks have been
turned over to the department of agri
culture by the war department and are
realy to be distributed to the varione
state highway departments through
the bureai of public roalds.
The trucks, numbering abiout twenty
thioiusn1d, and a nnm1jority of themi new,
are the surplus left on tihe hands of
the wnar departmoent wheni the war und.
edl. They are to he distriinted to tih
statoi t.eoer a provision of the post.
oli1' ppropriation hill und uost be
used oin road construction work.
Care of Steel.
Steel knue) and otlir steel rimcles
which Ire inot in gen 1r use omy he
kept fromna run in.' if tihey- arne lipped
in a tr'ong sution oft sda1. one part
vater to four of sfmla, then wiped dry
With ihm.o1n1l and kept. in a dry piaee.
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TOBACCO RESISTANT
TO ROOT-ROT FOUND
Trouble Is Caused By a Fungus
Which Lives as Parasite.
Most Characteristic Symptom of DiS.
case Is Decay of Root System Re
sulting in Stunting of Plants
-Tests Being Made.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
maient of Agriculture.)
If two ''arietles of tobacco, Conl
necticit liaviat a mid White Biurley, for
lustance, are planted side by shle onl
gronild which lis Just gronii two or
tirete crol s of iiirh'y, tlt iai~vaina
sved In muost insinneves wvill produtce
froin) two times to onle huired timles
ats 1inuch1 as the Iii'ley. If, however,
these two varieties are plnted where
tobacco Iits not beeii growi forw sev
eral years and onl soil whlehti is not
"tobacco slek," the iurley will produce
as large a crop, nere for' nere, as the
Coinnectict Iha111. Tho enu111se of
the low%, yield ll tille first caSo is root
rot, a disense the Cormtti et('lit lia'atna
Is able to resist, but to viich t li Bur
ley Is susceptible. For seve'ril Years
speclallsts of the Un1ited Staltes De
partment of Agriculturoe have beet
working to develop by select1on tylie
of JBurhley ais resistan t issom (if the
cigar varieties, but which will still
possess the yield and quality of Bur
ley. During tlie past three years these
strailns have been tested ii Kentucky.
Ii these tests the resistant strains
haive made aIveraige anormi1al gr'owth
catch year, while ordinary llurley pro
duced practically notithig.
The Importance of this disease Is
shiowti by the fact that recent eitreful
observations over i consideralei part
."' .) . ....
of tihe! tobacco-growing se clitio (if tile
United Stattes haiive showi iti a titil
(ttiaige of millions of d1oilars. 'file
loss it Keniz;ky alone is believed to
exceed easily nn average of $2,U00,000
annually.
Root-rot Is Caused by a fungus vlleh
li ve's its at )ut Ite (It the i)roots of t:to
jilantt. This funtguts cann groiw ito the
roots and feed oni teir tissutes wh'li(h
resualts int dlenay. It can Iiv on! 1)h-nd11
or'giil mia tter ini thle soil, lbut Int tihe
absenice' of'1, 41i ton j platitts it gn'idlualily
dlieS (out, thloutgh thtis ma~ty requlta'ir fro
five Vt' ten1Ill5i yers or maore. TheI dIi sease~
sprends iniuchl in thle samue w~ay as
(othler dIlseatses of' latts antd animal1 s.
'11114 most5 charinet tri'st Ie symtptomi
of roaot-r'ot is a de'(aty ofi the r'oot sy's
temi resulting i a stunitting ot' thel
plantts. Cutritously enioughi, root-r'ot
ranre'ly kills the lhiant in the fiel, AsIde
fromi becomtin g stun ted and1( ye'llow the
dilseaised lanits maiy shaow wilting even
in very moist soils on (days whent to
bacco in healthy soil, mid othe1r crops,
show no willting. 'lThe dielletedi root
systemi is not alel( to take Up) wiater
as fast as the leave's use It.
WATERSIPHONED TO GARDEN
Ample Supply Obtained DurIng Dry
Summer Spell by UsIng Reserve
Stock in Cistern.
During the dry months last summer
we assuared a ichl returan fromt our
home giarden b~y lrrigaiting ourI vege
talies from the hiouste cistern which
was on land higher Itan the gard'(en.
A hose was ('Iployed to 5iphlon the
water to a main11 dItch, froim whichl ex
tended lateral di t(ches btweenll lie
rows or growinug plaints, liy ('are'flly
conserving ouar supply we hiiii wn'ter
MtAIN DiTCH
LATERAL CHEC
Siphoning Water WIth a Hose From a
Cistern to a Garden Occupying Near.
By Low Land.
enough to lnst till summaer. fly cork
ing the hiose at the dowilnard e'nd, and
filling It with water blefore pln('lng thel
other' endi in the cistern, tihe slphlon is
started by the flow of wate'r e!nused
'by remevilng the eork.--K. M. Kog
geshall, Webster Grove, Mo., ini I'opu
Iar Mechanicn Mngzine,
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by an Artist of National Reputation
A rich opportunity is offered to hear an artist of
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Graded School Auditorium
This Afternoon and Tonight, June 4th.
Afternoon 4:30 Evening 8:45
The program is of unu'sual merit, including se
lections which will appeal to a wide range of tastes.
Vernon Dalhart
is a lyric tenor whose
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in the nation's musical
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Mr. Dalhart Will be Assist
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"The Phonograph
With a Soul"
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