The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-03-01
FARM AND GARDEN.
THE COMING HOG.
A Farmer and stock Raiser Tells What
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A Farmer and stock Raiser Tells what
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The coming hog of twenty years ago
is not the coming hog of to-day, says
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 has been knocked
out, and no more heavy bacon is wanted.
The heavy hog, full of lard, is 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-loolSing hog,
but light, large hog. We must never
let go of size; this always has and al
ways will play q large part in the sale
of any animal. The coming hog will
meet the wants of all. The market
wants a pig that, dropped April 1, will
weigh 200 pounds October 1, 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 will Craze on
clover and CLEAN shack in the woods;
will thrive on dairy and house slops,
and if necessary will 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 slop of disAiieries, for distilleries
will not then exist.
The coming hog will be an American
hog and trace his origin to some spot in
Ohio He 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 great source of wealth to
this country, and will make many a
poverty-stricllen 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 jawl;
short, clean neck medium-sized shoul-
der; superb back and loins, and splen-
did ham; he will butcher clean, without
preponderance of slush or waste;
belly light and smooth; body of medium
size and firm; tail small; eyes we'll out;
car 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 will insure a
large proportion of lean meat, just what
the consumer demands Many influ-
cnces will hinder the speedy realization
OF the coming hog, such as the show
ring, where fat will rule, which serves
to cover multitude of sins. Size is
often ignored in the show ring. The
score card is another impediment. A
scratch of half point at the nose be-
cause it is little too sharp or long, or
short; another scratch on tho face be-
cause it is too broad or too narrow; an
other on the eye because it hats not the
right expression; the coat Is too short,
the swirl makes 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 vocations of life.
Hence you will see the man of nerv-
Gus temperament, erect form, short
face, bright eye, and little aristocratic,
breeding the Berkshire.
The man whose head and shoulders
seem too large for his body will breed
the Victorias; the man of not very
broad and expansive mind, content with
little things, likes pleasure, is satisfied
to win without much competition, will
take the small breeds; the dom t-care
fellow, who will wear his coat wrong
side out if he happens to put it on that
way, will stay with the Jersey Reds;
the man who has missed his calling will
breed Cheshires; the man who is decep-
tive every time and will induce agricul-
tural papers to sell out cheap, will
breed Ohio improved Chesters the
good-natured fellow, but bigoted, thinks
he can accomplish what no one else can,
and don't mind few specks of mud on
his coat, will eXpend his energies on
Todd's improved Chesters; the man who
would prefer dinner of snout to nice
bit of ham, who will strain at q gnat
and swallow camel, will have his heart
set on the old-fashioned Chester White;
lastly, the square-b 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, |
will advocate the Poland-China.
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