Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-02

case, and We venture the assertion
that where one person raises his
own meat without the law, two would do
so with the law enforced. 1t is a fully
estab lished fact that the mast in Leon
county will not do to depend upon. 1t is
very seldom that we can ''hervest q crop
of pork from the sand jack and post
oak acorns of Leon. And suppose we
could depend upon the mast; look at the
danger of our swine straying of and get
ting lost, or else ''putting up in some
negro s smokehouse. How many men i'll
this county can say that their hogs got
fat entirely on the mast last fall? They
are very scattering. And again, it is
fully conceded that coru-fed meat is
worth from to 2 cents per pound more
than that which is fattened on the
range. Then why not have the hog law
in Leon? The time is coming when we
must pasture our cattle or our
hogs. Our stock range lie being ruined
and our fencing material is fast playing
out. Even now in some parts of the
country we are forced to depend upon
barbed wire for fencing. and any one
that has tried it has found that il takes
money to make wire fence hog proof.
Something must be done. Shall we de-
vote our time and money to the task of
making fences that will turn the Texas
hog, the long, slim and slender shoat
that can easily go through q three-inch
crack ana destroy ten acres of corn after
entering. Give US a hog-law and thus
stop the continual fussing between neigh
bors and also stop the importation of
bacon and corn from other states. Give
us the hog-law in Leon county aud we
will have our smoke houses at home,
hnn yri1 I,o a nj
people will be more prosperous
Farmer, in Leon County Messenger.
THE GOOD WORK DONE BY LAWYER.
There are now in Runnels county, this
state, a breed of hogs possessing good
qualities that are the result of number
of crosses made By Mr.. c. H. Willing
ham, a lawyer of that county, who
made the first attempt in the hog bust
ness seven years ago. The WiIlingham
hog, as they are called, have been
taken in hand by number of farmers,
and they have given the greatest salts
faction to all who have handled them.
He started with a common hazel-splitting
razor back SOW which he crossed with
Berkshire boar, aud the female issue of
this cross he bred to q thorough bred
Poland China, three eighths Berkshire
and ne-eighth common hog. The pa
ternity being with a number of Poland
China boars, he, without danger from a
strain of blood, allowed the stock to in
breed, and by so doing has established
breed of his own-the Williugham hog.
Mr.. Willingham states that he used the
Berkshire boar for the reason that he
was good rustler. and because it yields
the largest proportion of lard to meat.
The Poland China he used because of its
large frame and good health and docile |
nature. From this stock of hogs Mr..
WilIingham this winter killed six ami
mails, all fourteen months old, that
averaged $50 pounds. The average lard
yield of the six was l60 pounds, which |
is not included in the $50 pounds average |
weight OF the meat produced by each |
hog.
In feeding his hogs Mr.. Willingham |
gives free range and besides feeds them |
corn, oats, wheat bran aud scraps from |
the house These six hogs he killed this |
winter he had fed heavily the last month |
of their existence, giving them ten BUSH |
els apiece of corn and oats mixed two
thirds corn and one-thlrd oats. The |
thirteen preceding months they had /
averaged only Que bushel apiece. Wheat |
bran he fed as an appetizer-about forty |
pounds TO each hog during the fourteen |
months. Corn in September retailed in |
town for 20 cents per bushei and IN No
vember for 40 cents per bushei. Oats |
varied from fifteen to twenty cents.
Wheat bran So cents per 100 pounds
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