Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-06-12
THE FARM.


Pigs raised on clover are becoming
very profitable. for rpeople are beginning
to appreciate the difference between the
meat of pigs raised on diet Of corn,
and those which are fed clover and
grasses. Where the swine are raised
upon large scale for the pork factories,
it doesn't matter much what their diet
is, so long as they grow rapidly and
increase in weight. It is quantity and
not quality that takes. The great farms
of the West, devoted to raising pork for
the market, are largely to blame for
bringing pork into disfavor. Many
people won't eat pork, for they think it
is unclean, and liable to contain the
germs of some disease. One cannot
wonder that this impression has gone
abroad, when slops and dirty dish water,
with corn added, are supposed to be the
diet of the pigs, whose time, when not
eating this filthy compound, is spent in
wallowing in dirt.
In order to raise pigs for profit, it is
necessary to feed them food that will
improve the quality Of the pork, as we'll
as increase the quantity. In the spring
of the year the question of raising more
swine on the farm comes up anew, and
new methods of treatment of them
should also enter into consideration.
The farmer that gets the name of raising
pork of a superior quality, never lacks
for customers who are ready to pay good
prices for it. There are those who are
willing to pay fancy prices for high
grade article. In this age of deception
and fraud, city consumers are never GER
tain of what they are eating, unless they
buy direct from some farmer. Many
prefer to buy their eggs, butter, milk
vegetables, fruits and meat, direct from
the producers, for then they know that
they are getting genuine article
| Farmers, living close to large cities, can
| find nothing more profitable than estab-
fishing name for raising nothing but
the best, and then charging fair prices
for all their products.
| It is only recently that change and
reform in pig raising has generally beer
| known by city people. They are begin
| ming to understand now that some of the
| pork is raised from clover, grains, and
clean food. The ordinary swill com
pound has been superseded by diet o
milk, clover, grasses and grains. Grass
fed pigs produce superior pork, ant
they run less danger of sickness. Their
would be less mortality among tn
swine if they were given the range o
fields, and allowed to root around il
the clean soil. 1t will not always pay tc
enclose large pastures for swine, bu
some good sy stem of soiling should b.
adopted. They should have green foo
in summer, and roots, clover-hay an
silage, in winter. Corn is probabl
the cheapest ration for them, but tn
pork of such hogs is always fat, am
lacking in the favor that always charac
terizes the clover-fed hog. The pen an
house for the pigs should also receiy
some consideration from the owner
for the filth of such places has much t
do in breeding diseases, during the he
weather, and also in tainting the mea
They should always have a decent pc
or house, and plenty of fresh. clea
water near them. Those who raise piig
in the best approval ways will ineyitabl
find profit in them, and will find that, j
the course of time, as his pork become
we'll known, the demand will exceed tn
supplv.-Cor. Practical Farmer.