"Plans like ours," operating under United States government inspection; cannot buy hogs that are dressed on the farm, and these hogs have to be marketed in nearby towns, where the seller has only the local merchants for purchasers. We can only buy live hogs and it is better to have them shipped in car lots.

"When the buildings are completed, we will have a thoroughly modern and up-to-date packing plant, all under United States government inspection, capable of handling 1,000 hogs, 100 cattle and 600 small stock daily."

Some day Virginia is going to be a great hog and cattle-growing State. A letter received a day or two ago by a Richmond man from a Wall Street house reads about thus: "It appears to us that the trouble with Mexico, although most unfortunate for the many men who must go down there, will stimulate business. The country is slowly but surely waking up to the idea of preparedness, and this trouble will wake them up all the more and that will ultimately tend to stimulate business, as large orders will have to be placed for all kinds of supplies by the United States government." Wall Street always looks out for the main chance in this place, the writer of the above letter has the thing right. Richmond and some other Virginia towns are told by the war scare if?)  If there be something, and it is the right thing to do. 