St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-17
SWI NE BREEDING.
Practical Suggestions by the
Farmer of the Des Moines Reg
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PraCfgCaa suggestions Dy the
Farmer of the Des Moines Reg
lister.
The breeder for sale TO pork raisers is
now mating his herd. Few men do
more for the welfare of Iowa than the
men who fit the SOW to the Iowa past
ure and corn crib. The lead that Iowa
has as pork producing state is di-
rectly aceable to this class of men.
They do the thinking in this line. They
have made the Iowa hog what it is. A
few things have become settled among
them-because common property, so to
speak. The young male, to be bred
economically, must have grass, eXer-
else. variety of food. good care, and
pure blood. Nobody in this line of
business advocates the use OF grades,
or the neglect of pedigreeS. A
long line of approved ancestry, q SUI
periOr individual merit. and good re-
pute of the breeder are all imperative.
Iowa has many breeders who conform
to these requirements. Breeding hogs
are cheap considering their excellence.
1t does not cost 10 cents for each pig
above pork price of the sire to secure an
excellent head for the herd. The breeder
for pork has ample opportunity to pro-
the breed he favors in Iowa, and TO this
fact we attribute the uniform excellence
of the states hog crop. We think the
proaucer of pork scarcely pays the
breeder for all the pains he takes.
Careful mating, special feeding, judi
cious herding. separate feeding, omni-
presence at narrowing, great pains in
rearing, select foods, SubdiYided lots
and pens. careful records, advertising,
and finally ne gets little above pork
price for the average.
@The producer of pork marages on q
cheaper plan. He generally has pigs
come in warm weather, in clover pas
ture, in grove, in sheds, caring for
themselves, living on clover almost ex-
clusiyely during summer in herds. and
living in herds on corn in some shape
in winter. He manages so as TO give
them general attention, but not much
special care. He looks to the breeder to
provide him with good blood and looks
to the clover pasture in the summer and
the corn crib in winter. lie must pro-
duce cheaply, and he does produce
more cheaply than any competition out
of the grass and corn belt. The best
producers of pork provide pastures the
year round. They have clover in sum-
mer; some are leaning TO blue grass and
rye ICr 1911, Wlnter ana spring grazing.
They are converting IoWa'S cheapest
staples into pork, and doing il success
fully. The world does not compare
with Iowa in facilities for producing
pork, In her fine grasses, ample corn
fields, easily titled soil, and her excel
lent water where reasonable care is
taken to get it.
The Iowa hog is now produced by the
most economic and healthy methods.
Our people have as common property
many of the prominent facts necessary
to the pork producer. They hear much
against corn, but they still feed corn al
most exclusively. 1t is said TO be too
heating. They do not act upon that
theory if they believe 1T. Some oats aie
fed to the pigs, some ground feed is
made into slop, some roots are grown,
some pumpkins, some cabbage, here
and there, but grass and corn make
fowa's pork crop. We think the far
mer who keeps cows. and has his pigs
come in July or August when the calves
are Weaned, and has skim milk for the
pigs in addition to clover, does the
cheapest and best summering, and if he
is careful to have pasture always when
snow does not cover it in the fall, win
ter and spring, he does the cheapest