The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-09-11

moro money In swine breeding than. ID
any other live stock on the farm. Tn
consumption Of pork is moro general
than Of any other meat and this makes
. large. constant demand for porl
products. In their uneasiness owe,
American competition. foreign Govern.
ments have done their best to embarrass
our export meat trade, and have tenn.
porarily injured the business of breed.
ing and fattening swine. But we have
never regarded this as moro than Z
passing cloud. Knowing that Ameri.
can pork was . good product, and that
Il could be produced cheaper than pork
can be produced in Europe, we have
known that Government edicts could
not long keep our pork product from q
free and full entrance into foreign coun.
tries. The prohibitofy measures that
have been adopted by foreign Govern.
ments have been exceedingly irritating,
and the Government of the United States
ought to have taken decided steps long
ago to secure the full entrance of our
pork into every country that has dis
eliminated against II. It would not
have been q difficult thing to accom-.
Plish. 1t would have required but a
slight retaliation to have brought Bis.
marck to his senses and that course
should have been followed even if it
cost "A conflict The page Of history
that should describe the Hog War;
between Germany and the United States
would read much better than many a
page Of history that is devoted to much
more ostentatious wars. Certainly no
greater injustice was ever done either to
this country or the German people than
Bismarck inflicted by his prejudiced and
senseless course. We may look. how.
ever, for change in this direction, in
the not very distant future. The people
who will learn what American products
ore, and who are compelled to pay ex.
orbitant prices for home products, will
teach the Bismarcks of the future that
among their chief duties is to supply the
people with the cheapest foods that are
produced, and not shut them out in con-
sequence of blind prejudice.
The future of swine husbandry, there
fore, bids to be as fair as it has ever
been in the past, and money is yet to
be made in the business. But 4 must
be carefully managed. Regard must
30 had to breeding and feeding, though
in the matter of swine stock, perhaps
the improved breeds are much more
widely distributed than the improved
breeds of other animals. There is
very general notion that profits in swine
breeding depend upon good stock. OF
course we do not mean to say that
everybody breeds such swine as he
ought to. Unfortunately that is not
true. There are many who still look
thunderstruck when asked to pay a
good round price for pure bred hog.
But it is doubtless true that more are
breeding good swine than there are
breeding good cattle, horses or sheep.
But it is not enough to. get animals of
certain breed. All the breeds are good;
SO far as breed is concerned man will
not make mistake in selecting either.
But every animal of breed is not what
it should be by any means. Many of
our hogs have been greatly weakened
in constitution by their breeding and
ruinous system of feeding; and very
often it is impossible for us to avoid
purchasing such swine. Nestern Ra-
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