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_ ipork is made as a regular and depend- IBASIS FOR PORK PRODUCTION One Source of Fallure Is That Many Follow It as Speculation Rather Than Business. (Prepared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) Recent heavy slumps in /market, as well as the high prices of lcorn, have caused hog ralsers in va- irfous parts of the country to reduce !the number of sows in their herds, ac- |cording to reports received. Bug hog raising on the farm should be made a |stable, regular business, department speclalists belleve. The man begin- ning to raise hogs should resolve to follow it year In and year out, regard- Iless of the price he may obtain for his the hog |converts into pork. Like every other ing activity, pork production has ts ups and downs, but, according to jong-time averages, the farmer who cks reelizes a fair and dependable fit, the specialists declare. One source of failure is that too ‘nmy follow it as & speculation rather ‘fin as 8 business. They plunge on b'on just as they would gamble on grain futures or on the stock market. rations of this character hre never beneficial for any business. Because of the recent decline in the hog mar- ket it does ot necessarily follow that ithe selling price of the pigs that will lie raised from the sows bred this fall 'will not be satisfactory. *The plgs of this fall will not be ready for a year /and untold changes may come about. Every farmer who 1s conservative, )careful, and painstaking in his hog- |raising operations is able after a few |years of experimentation to determine " /approximately the maximum and mine Mrhum pumber of sows that he can jidaintain on his farm at the greatest met profit. When be has accurately jascertained this number he should lbreed that many sows every year, er conditions being equal. In ad- ering to this plan the farmer is, In o sense, a speculator, but is In real- Bty a business man practicing common- wense business management. Hog raising throughout the localities where A Part of Uncle Sam's Big Herd of Hogs. able cash crop has proved one of the most reliable farm activities in which the farmer engages, and despite mar- Xet fluctuations and the spasmodic irregularities in prices the prospects are that pork production will be as profitable in the future as it has been 4n the past, R e e Through the Soul's Eyes. Physical eyes may measure the pos- sibilities that return effort in terms of dividends, but it takes vision of the soul to become a benefactor to your fellows. Effort for personal gain must be selfish beyond measure if it does not benefit more than the first actor. - Pven when it does not seem to be a help to anyone there are reflexes that are sure to reach men in various walks of life. But the world needs the work of the greater man. He may seem mediocre toshis fellows. They may even coddle themselves into imagining their own superiority. What he does will show the difference. Intuitively he will sense the need of the times and without seeming to patronize he will make people appreciate him as friend. —Exchange. ' POOR PROSPECT. “Is there a man in this town who will listen sympathetically to a hard luck story?” asked the stranger. “Yes,” replied the village post- master. “There he goes now. That’s Professor Dippers, who teaches school here. He has a heart as big as all outdoors.” : “Thanks. I meant to ask if there was & man in this town who would | listen sympathetically to a hard luck story and was in a position to give me something more substaritial than sympathy.” — Birmingham needy Age-Herald. hogs or the cost of the feed which he |, HNATIONA Great War Makes Many Millionaires in America MERICA’S millionaires increased by 1,476 in the first year of the war in Europe. During the second year the increase was twice as great, for in 1916 there were 2.809 more millionaires than in 1915. And in 1918, while the net growth wuas only 31, the true situation rests in the old saying, “Him who has—gets!” The increases of that year were in increased incomes of thase included in the totals of years gone by, _Distribution of these new million- aires throughout the country shows them thickest where war activities were greatest, with New York state alone having 2,388. Nevada was the only state that didn’t claimy a million- aire resident in 1017, but her million- aires live elsewhere, that’s all. S Of Awmerican willionaires, capitalists as a group made up 3,383 of the total; ‘manufacturers who made war material 920, and the producers ef food, 120. Corporation officlals numbered 716 millionaires. The largest income in 1917 was $34,936,604. The man clalmed to be unmarried, which makes him appear to be Standard Oil's daddy, J. D. Rocke- feller. A “single woman” received $3.794,659. She may have been Mrs. B. H. Harriman. In the great group of excessively rich over the United States there were 227 classed as “single women.” From these latest available figures it is shown that individuals through the income tax returns contributed in 1918 on their 1917 incomes a great total of $361,486,177, while corporations in the same period yielded Uncle Sam's strong_boxes just $2,142,445,769. - e S O T S S B “EXECUTED” HIS DEAD BODY w FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING H. N. M:K:E, Funeral Director PHONE 178-W or R 8tern Decree of Justice Carried Out on Corpse of Ancient Daimatian Archbishop. Palmatia has made rapid strides in sclence and literature. the story of her culture, however, being one of per- sonal achlevement rather than public advancement. 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