The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-07-04

raising, it is nevertheless OF very gen.
eral interest to all pork producers.
Here in the South, however, more pig
is used than all other meats combined.
Hog and Hominy" is a familiar
Southern menu and in ell our country
stores salt meat" ''fat meat" or
white meat" is as much a staple as
sugar or -four.
For successful hog raising" Mr.
Tracy says, almost any locality il
suitable where there is O fertile soil on
which food crops can be grown at
small expeuee and where au abundant
supply # pure water can be secured.
Large streams are Objectionable as
germs or anthrax, cnolera, swine
plague and other contagious diseases
are often carried long distances by
water. Shallow, stagnant pools should
not be allowed. 1t is not necessary
that hogs should be provided with
places for wollowing ia the mud as
they will seldom wallow unless suffer.
ing from heat. As hogs do not per
spire, however, they feel the effects of
heat very quickly and if the only re-
lief from the hot sun is for the hog to
bury himself in mud, he will naturally
do 90. In the shade of tres the hog
will always be content Hogs always
do better in small droves than in large
ones"
Mr.. Tracy discusses the various
breeds, but thinks as Profs. Emery aud
Johnson, Of our State Experiment
Station, have recently said in these
columns, that management and feed
are more important than breed. THE
value of hog of any breed" he says,
lis measured by his ability to make
good pork and experience has shown
that ordinary good pork can be pro
duced more cheaply in hog Of a GER
tain shape than in one which differs
from the type to any to any great ex-
tent. The outline of perfect hog
should be, viewed from Gny direction,
nearly that Of parallelogram with
the corners slightly rounded. A large
coarse ear, and coarse bristles indicate
coarse animal which will fatten
slowly and mature late"
OF pure bloods, he says: In general
pure blooded animals Of any preferred
breed will be found more prof able
than either crosses or grades though a
poor specimen of a pure blood animal
is no better than any poor animal.
The fact that the animal has a long
pedigree and is registered in a herd
book does not in itself make the animal
desirable as a breeder or profitable as
feeder. When given an tqIal
amount OF food the pure blood will
weigh fully twice as much as thenative
hog at elk months or more, and when
slaughtered will lose only 90 or 25 per
cent, while the native will ordinarily
lose one. third of it's live weight. The
man who intends to follow hog raising
as business even il he does not keep
more than a dozen animals, will find it
both profitable and economical to buy
a pair of pure bloods and then make
mis- entire drove pure bloods as soon as
he can raise enough desirable animals
By buying a young boar and a SOW
already in pig by boar not related to
the one purchased, the boar can be
used on the offspring Of the pure blood
SOW, as well as for other service, and
in this wag the pure bloods can be in
creased very rapidly. The hog raiser
should certainly use pure blood boar
and buy a new one every season to pre-
vent inbreeding."
Mr.. Tracy discusses at some length
the treatmentot the boar, age at which
to breed, care of breeding sowJ and
pigs, castrating and spaying OF spay
ing young soWs, he says, 1T is no
more diff cult and dangerous than cas-
trating young boars and should be
more generally practiced. SpRyed ami
mails are always more quiet and better
feeders then open sows. A spayed
SOW weighing 200 pounds will dress
from 10 to 20 pounds heavier than an
open SOW of the same live weight; she
will have heavier leaf and inside lard
and packers and butchers will always
pay top prices for spayed soWs because
such animals are sure to be as good as
they look, while open sows are subject
to shrinkage." Mr.. Tracy also treats
of foods, the pasture question and veri-
GUS feeding crops, fattening for market
and of diseases and insects. Kerosene,
he states, is death to hog lice and
should be applied in dilute spray or
nth cloth The annlinakin shnl1Id ha