The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-26

! the packing house is fast dispiacinp hos
4 as meat for the great mass Of tba
worlds middle class. The change wnaue siIts
IN the Daeon 1Iade OF late years is truly
| bacon or otherwise salted pork was mas
| ~ eaten by the lower Classes. Now. ever
these don't want to eat sailed rorir 80
more. The most common breakfast dis
on the tables OF the Well-to-do is thai oF
fried bacon, while smaA loag and
weight is almost invariably found on thc
sideboard and receives frequent attentior
This unique change in the taste and fash
ion has been brought about, chiefly ~
two causes-by the mild cure and hv, ~
evolution of that particular type of 6acne
hog Of which the red TamworIh is the best
representative. 'eSC
IL is not remarkable then that tbA ide,r
bacon hog fetch much higher price ~
Tie thick, fat. chunky hog, which has.
been described by some one as ''anima1a3
lard bladders." This higher price 49,
for the bacon hog W,ll no doubt h. ~
incentive TO the farmer to breed and feej
the hog conformable to the demands cf
the packers The Chicago packers ar M
probably the most enterprising nsn -. 20
this particular line in the world. In tho
lasI year or two some of them have s',e"
gested to the swine raisers of the gre5t
middle west 70 breedi bacon hogs ~
with LITTLE success. Que leading Chicaeo
packer Keeps buyer in Canada who mr.
chases bacon hogs right along paving III
CO madam swine raiser about ] cenf -
pound above the price paid In CbioalTu
breeGers, then, either do not understarS
what the market demands or else strh ~
horuly continue to raise a class of heaVy
fat hogs. which are salable only at rnncS
lower prices.
The demand for heavy pork is limitoa
compared 10 what it was some years o.
The LUMBER and mining camps are using
much lighter meats, and even the farroarSS
themselves eat little of The fat meat ae
such hogs as they prepare for 1narkat
The great bulk of the Canadian trade do.
mand lean meats, and the British market
almost entirely does so. The farmer hsS
but 10 consult the market reports of anIy
newspaper to see the difference heinc
made between the price for lean hos an5
ent discrimination does not comnenseto
the packer for the difference in price af
lie product when put on che market
The primary cause of the lack of adam
tation of the log to the requirements -
modern demand are two. First the Dre1,s-
lent opinion, which recent experiments
have conclusfvely shown TO be erroneous.
that The fat, chunky hog of the Po,and,
China type is more easily and cheaply fat
ted than the aone. deep-sidad bacon hos
of the type OF the Famworth; and second.
ly. The common opinion than corn cannot
he fed 10 the bacon hog Excepting the frst
four and half months of The bacon hops
life in which corn can be fed only snsr
inEly in the fattenng period which is tba
las9 eight weeks of the bacon pigs NE
corn ray he ied as tibera s4y as to the heav
lest packing hog. The point is to have tba
proper frame well grown in bone and mus
Gle 10 the age of four and a half months
then pen up and feed ali The corn desira
BILE From the point of economy. however
and when after The best results a ration
of all corn, even in the fsttenng period il
certainly nOt the beSt. When the truth re-
eardng the economical production of the
bacon hog is widely diffused and the
present erro.1eo Gus impressions obliteratei.
the bacon hog viii occupy that prominent
position wnich il eminentfy deserves.
A. Macdonald. 2. E. l.