Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-05-22
THE COMING HOG.
A Farmer and stock Raiser Tells what
II VIII BE.

! The coming hog OF twenty years agg
| is not the coming hog of to-day. SAYS Z
writer in the Ohio Farmer. Then. con
sumption said heavy bacon and thou
sands Of tons Of lard To-day the bot
tom Of the lard vat mas been knocked
! out, and no more heavy bacon is wanted
The heavy hog, full Of lard, is q drug
on the market. The light hog. full Of
lean meat brings the highest price. BY
eight" ! do not mean the little, nerv.
Gus wiry. up-eared. weasel-IoOking hog
| but a light. large hog. We must never
| let 90 Of size, this always has and al.
ways Bill play large part in the sale
| OF any animal The coming hog will
/ meet the wants Of all The marke,
wants a pig that dropped April /, will
weigh 200 pounds October /, when mar
keted and it will be solid lean meat.
The coming hog will be good feeder.
| Bran, corn. peas and middlings will be
his common diet, but he viii Craze on
clover and CLEAN shack in the woods,
will thrive on dairy and house slops.
and il necessary viii clean up the re-
fuse Of the country butchers slaughter
house and by his great power Of assim-
ilation convert all these things into de-
licious lean meat But he will not eat
the Stop Of distilleries, for distilleries
will not then exist
The coming hog will be an American
hog and trace his origin to some spot in
Ohio. lie will crowd Irish bacon from
our market, and all other foreign pork
products, and will enter the markets of
the Old World and lift the French and
German embargo from American pork.
He will be a great source of wealth to
this country, and viii make many a
poverty-stricken home independent.
Whether he will be white or black is
a question The breeders Of white
hogs will expect him TO be white and
the breeders Of black hogs black. His
characteristics will be-short nose:
smooth face, not too broad; small iawl;
short, clean neck; medium-sized Shout
der; superb back and loins. and a spien.
did ham; he will butcher clean, without
a preponderance 81 slush or waste;
belly light and smooth; body Of medium
size and firm tail SMALL eyes well out;
ear thin and slightly dropping, but not
enough to interfere with sight; body
long and covered with a thick coat of
fine, short hair
Such characteristics viii insure a
large proportion Of lean meat just what
the consumer demands Many infiu-
ences viii hinder the speedy retaliation
Of the coming hog, such as the show
ring, where fat viii rule, which serves
10 cover a multitude OF sins. Size is
often ignored in the show ring. The
score card is another impediment A
scratch Of half a point at the nose be-
cause il is little too sharp or long, or
short: another scratch on the face be-
cause it is too broad or too narrow; an
other on the eye because it has not the
right expressions; the coat is too short,
the swirl makes a rosette. the tail
twists the wrong way, etc.
Tastes will hinder the concentration
Of our forces toward the coming hog. 1t
has been said that man is as the dog
that follows him. This is true to a GER
tain extent in all yocations Of life.
Hence you viii see the man OF a nery-
Gus temperament erect FORM short
face, bright eve. and little aristocratic,
breeding The berkshire
The man whose head and shoulders
seem too large for bis body viii breed
the Nictorias: the man Of not very
broad and expansive mind, content with
little things. likes pleasure. is satisfied
to win without much competition. viii
take the small breeds: the don t-care
fellow, who will wear his coat wrong
side out if lie happens 10 put it on that
way, Will stay with the Jersey Reds;
the man who has missed his calling will
breed Cheehires; the man who is decep-
tive every time and will induce agrieul-
tural papers TO sell out cheap, gill
breed Ohio improved Chesters: the
good-natured fellow, but bigoted, thinks
ne can accomplish what no one else can,
and don't mind few spccls Of mud on
his coat viii expend his energies On
Todd's improved Chesters; the man who
would prefer dinner Of snoUt to nice
bit of ham. who viii strain al a gnat
and swallow a camel viii have his heart
set on the old-fashioned Chester White;
lastly, the square built robust. good
natured fellow who knows he is at the
front. and who prefers the company Of
colored lady to white one, who is very
economical but has an extravagant
waste of cloth at the seat OF his pants,
viii advocate the Poland-China