Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-03-03
WESTERN HOGS.
Nebraska Estimate of the Money TO Be
Made Raising Them.

Nebraska Estimate of the Money TO Be
Made Raising Them.
In an interview with two live stock
men by a reporter of the Omaha World
some useful facts were brought out.
Following is an extract from the inter-
view:
THE history Of the hog trade, " said
Mr.. Murphy, taking up the narrative,
sis that the man who sticks to hogs
makes money. In the cattle trade it is
the commission men who make it.
"What is the cost of getting hog in
condition for the MARKET" After some
figuring the two presented the following
ga fair estimate is 40 bushels of corn
for $50 pound hog. 1t should be sold
when it is about 10 months old. Heavi-
er hogs than that really bring no more
money-that is, enough to make it pay
to feed them. But there are cases in
which it is to the owners interest to
keep his hogs longer, as, when he has
plenty of corn he wants to feed up or
when he is watching the market, hold
ing bis hogs for rise in price.
"This 40 bushels covers all feed, Stops
and ground feed. The latter has been
developed since the drought. Formerly
the farmer fed straight corn, but he
learned that better or cheaper results
could be got by mixing the ground
feed. We never had the science of hog
feed down SO fine as today"
IF it takes 40 bushels of corn to mar
ket hog, how do you figure the profitr
"Corn in the country is now about Il
cents. We will figure it at 10. Forty
bushels would cost Sc. The price the
owner would probably get at his nearest
town would be ~ cents a pound, which
would make the price of $50 pound
hog So. rs. This leaves profit of So. 70. .
(Which pay the best-hogs at cents
fed on 20 cent corn or hogs at Scents
fed on Is cent corn?"
"The cent hogs pay the best. The
corn for feeding a $50 pound hog, when
it is 10 cents bushel. would be Sc.
The hog, when sold, would clear $2.75.
When corn is % cents bushel, the ex-
pense would be $40, and the hog, at
cents pound, would bring $12. so, a
profit of 81. so, or % cents less than in
the other case.
'Until lately we got a great many
lightweight hogs, but now corn is SC
cheap that farmers are holding their
stock longer. But the time is coming
when the heavy hogs will be discrimi-
mated against. The English trade de-
mands the lighter weight. The heavy
hogs are almost all shipped north. .
"a few years ago." said Mr.. Cook,
81 made test of the profit in hogs fol-
lowing cattle. / had $50 hogs for three
months in the yard with 100 head of
cattle. fed the cattle 80 bushels of %
cent corn daily, 100 pounds Of oilmeal
at cost of 81. 40 day, six tons of mil
let, etc., week at cost of So. 90 day.
Help cost me $25 month. In 80 days
sold the hogs They paid for themselves
that is, the first cost paid for all the
feed for the cattle, paid the hired help
and cleared $240. This was when hogs
sold for cents. %
These gentlemen are looking for a
great increase in the hog industry dur
ing the coming year. The demand for
hogs is already equal to the supply in
Omaha. When the new packing house
is added, they expect inroads to be made
into the Kansas City territory, because
the margin between markets will be re-
duced. The price paid will be closer to
the price paid in Chicago