Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-14

zaripH rs HASu Us
..toblishment will handle pork as we'll
., beef and mutton, an article on get
,,nr ready for producing the pork that
Gill be needed may not be regarded Is
~ NJ Mace in these columns. The pro-
dnction OF beef and mutton Is better I'M
derstood by our people than is the pro-
auction of pork. Heretofore there mas
been no special demand for pc rk, hence
.bsre has existed no stimulus for study
t,o ont the best rnetho DIS TO employ IN
t,s production on n large scale, but /
fncs the other meats named have al
Sravs been in large demand, people stud
led their production 10 the extent that
,bpv. probably, are not particularly |
nardiug more information in that direc-
tion than they alrendy possess.
Hogs can undoubtedly be made as per-
feet Il success in Texas as in any other
state OF the Union, indeed better sue
cess than is made with them in some OF the
states owing to their comparative exemp-
zion from hog CHOLERA here. We can raise
TODD suitable for them as cheapiy, all
tbinqs considered, as il can be- raised
onvwhere. But, as in all other sections,
va must give the pork hog Intelligent
,n9nagemeut If we expect to make money
ont of him. That management may
necessarily differ somewhat from thaL
prevailing IN many other sections, INA
particularly ut the North; but it is now
our province to ind out what that diHer-
emf management consists In.
Mr.. Redding of the Georgia depart
ment of agriculture, who is lifelong
southern farmer, says he has always
MANFRED to produce his entire supply OF
Ill n
ami 10 make it cost him much less than
could have been the cost of the Elm
nortpd article One of his leading rules
in southern hog-raisiug has been TO feed
the hog. Too many Southern people
dpDeud upon allowing the hog to feed
himself, that is, find all his own food
without drawing upon his owner for any
thing. In the lower Southern states he
may manage to live on this plan, but on
II he can never manage to make himself
profitable in the end. He mast be fed.
There is no such thing US getting much OF
ANYTHING for nothing. Razor-uack hogs
may rough it aud thus develop about all
there IS in them, but the profitable pork
hog can never do this.
TINS roughing it, which means a feast
one day and u fast the next, anu, posi-
bIv. starvation the next, will not do Tor
the nork hog His food must come reg
ularly; even in summer, when the range
suDply is abundant, he should never be
uermitted to 20 10 bed without his sup
per. Let him get what he can for him
self through the day, and then make up
auy deficiency that may exist with q
SQUARE meal in the evening, when the
DAYS work is over. He may pass
through the day with more or less OF an
appetite upon him, but he must not sleep
that way.
The nork hog must be kept on the
rush all the time, and to secure TN:
nush he must have not only an abund-
auce of food regularly, bur also an oc-
casionaI change OF food. There Is moth
inc that seems more to give tone Gnc
yigor TO the digestive organs OF Il grow
ing hog than n frequent change o.
food. a great deal OF this neede'
change may be secured by turning Aos'
OH lands from which crop has latei!
been taken, no matter what the croI
rnny have beeu-the weeds or Eras
left will afford the change. lie vii
there get and convert into pork mate
rials TINT otherwise would have Dee'
wasted.
1t calls for much food to make pork
continues Mr.. ReddinG, but by prope
naparement, q great deal of that ZOO
may he plcked up from the waste OF IN
farm. Everything the hog VIII eat
that would be of no particular benefit 1
ANYTHING else, should be turned over
the hog at all times when 1t Is realY
M, wait till Won are ready to begin IN
fattening process only little OSlor
killing time. 1t is plainly obvious tins
n large yield of pork cannot result troi
a small amount of corn, peas, potatoes
or other food given to the pork ma
N1gTI w~
fed will rarely overeat himself, and {
cha training OF these animals for ger
erations has been directed almost solel
to developing their capacity for laying
Assh and fat, they should never lack II
raw material for conversion.
The scientific argument in favor OF III
feeding il continued at some length III
may he summed up briefly rs follows:
the animal economy devotes a col
sidarabIe norton of all the food col
suned 10 the purpose OF keeping up u
daily waste of flesh and tissue men r
suits from exercising the limbs ana actl
organs of the body. Another portion
devoted TO keeping up the animal ne
TO n certain point, below when the va
processes cannot go on. Now, 1t is o.
yIous that the longer the period duriI
which n given quantity of food Is ma
TO last, the greater will be the pTopo
ton of that given quantity that will
devoted to supplying the daily waste al
keering up the animal heat. 1t tax
lust as much every day for these offices
varied only by the amount of eXerc
taken and the state of the wenther-a
this Quota must be orthcoming II II
ouires all thai is given TO the nnim'
indeed. If the due supply is not given
animal will waste away in flesh aud co
sume his own body, so TO speak, IN
effort 10 keep up the vital heath oil
words, the hog will fall away instead
gain. ,,.. .-
foregoing that hogs or other animals v
fn,ten more readily and economically
mild omen wenther, such US we usun
have in the fail, rather than in co
windy and rainy weather. 1t takes
much food (fueD to keep the body wa
when the arr is cold and damp;
either larger quantity must then
consumed in order TO lay on fat Tnpi
o. the fattening process must he $40