The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-03-23
Heavy Hogs.

The following are the weights oil
twelve hogs, Of the Chester White
breed, sold TO Turner 4 Hannah, Of
Belvidere, By Mr.. Luke Tesple, who
lives about i've miles west Of town.
Beat it who can: 68s. $50, $50, $40,
SIS, 645, 456. 40, $50. $40, 494, 466.
If anybody leads Mr.. Teeple in the
matter Of betty pork, We should be
pleased to hear about Belvidere
IN, Northpestern.
Best themi We can do it over
here in Winnebago county. Mr..
Teeple's hogs were sold live weight,
The average weight Of the twelve
WAS $50 pounds. Now look ~ :ours
Alex. Patterson, living five miles
northwest Of here, brought to the
city and sold four dressed hogs, Is
months of age, whoae respective
weights wore $50, b27, 1872 and 4l2
pounds, total, 1881 pounds, Rock.
ford, ~, journal. YIN.
And now comes =. @. Hard, Of
Guilford, with fifteen Chester Whites
IL months old, that weighed an ~.
ersge Of 664 pounds per hog, or 4
total Of 8, 400 poundA The lot was
shipped to Chicago. Nexu-Rock.
ford Register. .s5sua - 59aa6
We have once and again referred
to the very marked improvements
made in the development Of breeds
Of swine within . few years past.-
Many years ago il was no ancom.
mon thing to see hogs weighing
from 100 to 1000 pounds exhibited
a. something extraordinary. Men
had to pay an entrance tee to get Z
glimpse of his swineship. At the
present day such hogs may be seen ct
every state and almost every county
fair, and the end is not yet. Deeper
and deeper settle the scales, and
higher and higher 60 mp the prices
of the improved breeds. We like
to see this striving to excel; but the
question is not which breed oan be
made the largest and heaviest, bat
winch breed Is tho most profitable
One point seems to be we'll under.
stood, viz: . hog must lose no time;
he must be made to do al that he
is capable Of putting on his pound or
moro of flesh per day. We incline
to the opinion that . hog which 1t
the age of IL months will dress 3O0
pounds, il . good hog 70 raiss. There
are two distinct breeds prominently
before the public just now, each Of
which Tor their advocates and own
ers) affirm that they can do thus
every time and with oase- refer
TO Poland China and Chester Whites;
and We do not wish TO DO understood
now that the Berkshire, Suffolk,
Essex, Yorkshire, Cheshire and some
others do mot olaim the Same good
quality, and perhaps justly-but
here 10 . point whlch we wish more
definitely to settle, which Of the two
breeds first named has or is entitled
to the pre-eminence3 We very much
wish that friend Trabue, or any 9TH
er friend tavorsbly situated, would
try . barrow Of each, the Chester
and Poland China breeds, and feed
them one year side by side exactly
alike in every respect, and give tho
public tho result. If three or more
parties should try such an export
ment We might then have . fact, pro-
vided tho result was approximately
tho Same without waiting years to
obtain such facts. We could SOC no
to having one party who
had the facilities try three or four
lots in single season,
If there is one fact more patent
than another in reference to breeds
Of SWINE, it is this: The Poland. China
have OF late grown wonderfully in
favor with the public, and we thus
Judge because you can hardly find
prominent breeder Of this hog but
has more orders than he can fill, and
also from this Incidental fact, that
three-fourths-of the pigs
shipped by express arc Poland Chi.
nas.-C 0lnaan's Rural.