Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-11-21
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AeRI-
CULTURlSTS.
Some Up-to-Date Hints About Guilt
walton of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures viticulture and
Horticulture.
Uniformity.

Uniformity.
In the marketing of animals in num-
bers at a time there is nothing per-
haps more important than uniformity
IF breed, shape, condition and quality.
1t is quite necessary to please the eye
of the buyer as well as his sense of
possible profit to be made from the
purchase of a given lot of animals. 1t
is quite possible that a number of
animals of different types and condi-
tons may weigh just as much as an
other lot of uniform hogs, for in
stance, but that fact will not make
them bring as much in the market as
the other bunch. When one looks at
a lot of hogs that are of every kind
and sort known to hogdom-all colors
shapes, sizes and ages mixed together
in one unsightly aggregation-he can
not but deplore the fact that any one
would waste good feed on such monde
scripts when it might just as well have
been fed to a uniform bunch, which
would have commanded far more
profitable price upon the market. And
yet such lots of hogs come daily to
the Yards. Among them are good
hogs, we'll fed, well finished, of good
quality, but they are few and far be-
tween and their presence does not ma
terially help the chances Of the 9TH
ers, but invariably the price of the
good hogs is cut on account of the
bad ones 1t is like the company a
young man keeps being considered an
index to his personal character. One
may be guiltless- in fact, but If he
keeps bad company he will by infer
ence receive the same bad character
as his friends. A good hog should al
ways come to the market with good
companions, and the more they all look
alike the better it will be for the ship
per- and this truth applies equally to
the selling of cattle in the great mar
kets Of the country. 1t is true, too,
of the sheep business, and for that
reason sheep men are in the habit OF
sorting out their fat sheep into uni
form punches, and by so doing GER
tainly manage to secure better prices
fer them than would otherwise be the
case. The same thing should be done
by shippers of hogs, the idea being to
forward lots of pigs that are about OF
even development, weight, quality and
breed But some will say this idea is
a good one and perfectly correct, but
what are you going to do about 1t
when you have no such hogs to ship or
pick FROM" That is another point we
are coming to. Why not have such
hogs to ship? Why breed and feed
any other kind of hog in these days OF
breed sales where good, pure-bred
boars can be had at moderate. prices!
Why stick to the old-fashioned, ante
| quated types of swine which were
once predominant? Why not grade UP
| the home swine and have presentable
animals to feeu AID sell? There is nc
possible excuse for possessing, feeding
or shipping scrub swine. Such hogs
are a disgrace to an American citizen
They are disgrace to the times We
live in. They are an eyesore to buy
ers. They are of little profit upon the
| block. They are mere scayanger'
upon the farm. They do not utilize
food to the best possible profit. They
furnish a poor quality of pork, ham!
and bacon. They should be consid
cred a nuisance and the sooner they
are gotten rid of the better will 1t D'
for all concerned Now we hope thos'
who have been feeding scrub hogs ant
shipping them to the markets at los'
or to receive poorer prices than thel
neighbors receive for uniform hog
will take this matter to heart. Hog
multiply rapidly. 1t is not life
times work to change the entire char
acteristics of the farm herd of swine
| Commence now and save only thos'
sows that are of one breed. style, colo
and shape. This done, for any SAX
do not breed them to the nearest boa
Just because he is a boar, Consider
an insult to even propose the matin'
of the picked sows with anything shor
of pedigreed boar of standard bree'
and see to it that he is a good on
from family noted for good deeds an
long continued pure breeding. We d
not care so much what breed is sc
lected so long as it is a pure breed
| fer all pure breeds today are wei
worth breeding and feeding. and on
top cross of such blood will make
vast improvement in the uniformit
and quality of the feeding hogs, Will
continued breeding in the same direc
ton and annual selection and couDin
of only the best sows will sooE brin
any herd of swine up to the standar
o. excellence which commands profita
BILE prices in all of our markets. Dow
with the scrub, say wei Commo
sens; demands it; sensible men ar
prove it; profit follows surely in th
wake of the work.-Farmers' Review.