The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-01-23
Prom. In HOGS

Profit In Hogs
Mr. John Cow1e OF Des Moines.
Iowa. in a paper read before the Kan
sas State Board of Agriculture. gave
the results of forty years experience
as a hog-raiser- 1t contained much
valuable instruction, from which we
CLEAN the following:
81 have been in the hog industry
for the average human life time I
went into the business to make money.
and l have made it, and out of the
hog L have stayed in the hog bust
ness because there was money In it
started with pair at S1.25 apiece
L afterward sold hogs dressed at s1-75
per hundred pounds. But 1 got away
IL ON that style of hog.
Years after that first experience.
stood in the Chicago market and had
the proud satisfaction of selling four
carloads of hogs of my own raising.
every one of them, and received for
them S5,375. When that check was
cashed there was not a mortgage left
on the home, and there has not been
one on it since You see 1 owe to the
hog the greater part of my worldly
possessions. For twenty years my an
nual sales averaged over $4,000 When,
the children grew up and had to be
sent away to school, and when the
wheat crop failed. it does sometimes
with us in Iowa, my main reliance to
foot the bills was the hog. and he
never yet failed me.
Il wish to speak to you plainly in
regard to breeding and feeding hogs
IN the manner that has been most
profitable to me. What 1 say in
gard to this animal is not theory, but
Is personal experience, at close range
The first requirement IN the hog in
dustry is a good hog house. There
| is too much risk from loss unless you
| have proper shelter for both brood
sows and young hogs.
| ture.
| "All the leading breeds are good
| enough for me.
Il never lose 2 SOW in farrowing-
| not one.
you are no hog man unless you are
| Oh good terms with your sows.
| 1t requires brains to make good
| hogs.
Il have my pigs come along in May,
after we are sure of good weather
| Then I let them run in the pasture
the whole summer, and they grow to
De long. 1ank, big-boned and big-mus-
c1ed fellows. No fat on them yet The
following September commence
fattening them. In February they
| weigh 400 lbs.
| There is nothing tha- will fatten
hogs better than ear corn and water.
With shoats it is entirely different
Oats and shorts makes an ideal feed
for young shoats-
1.-THE hog is the c1eanest domestic
animal we have, if properly cared for
Il never had hog cholera my
, farm, but they had it all around mt
of late years.
after I have my hogs fattened,
would not drive them to market, bu
| haul them. Then 1 would have m.
cars well bedded; ride with them my
self; go with them to Chicago; sta.
with them in the yards, water. fee
and stay by them until they cross tn
| scales. Stay right with them.
/ There is money in the hog bushes
e | if it is properly conducted. There i
Z | money in it if it is -ot properl.
conducted. There is no reason VIII
science cannot be employed In feed
:. | ing hogs any more than in the cor
. | struction of a railway bridge. Yo
@ have to think. You have to exper
g inent. Every man is the architect O
his own fortune. Let him get up an
g nust1e, and do some thinking. get az
q | ton on himself, and luck will folioy
him.
:. II have made a success in swim
& raising. True, too, 1 have fed ca
tie all my life. and raised horses a
/, my life We used to raise great des
o of wheat. 1 lost money raising whea
but I never lost money raising hogs
n never did The hog has always bee
- the one I could fall back on"