Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-05-23
Cheap Pork Production.


During the recent meeting in this city
of the Texas Swine Breeders Associ-
alton, the subiect.of green feed for hogs
received considerable attention, and
it was the claim of the experienced feed
ers that by the use OF ofintelligently pre-
pared pasturage the cost of pork pro-
duction could be cut down to less than
cents a pound. The following APP
plies to all the agricultural part of
Texas as well as Louisiana and should |
be read by every farmer in the State;
"Are artichokes, chufas and other
comparatively new crops more prof.
table for the southern hog raiser than
corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts and 9TH
er well known scuther crops? What
is the cheapest way to make pork in
the Gulf states? This query was re-
Gently answered as follows in the Rur
al New Yorker by Director William c 4
stubbs, of the Louisiana station:
We have had extensive experience
on the growing of what might be called
the forage crops for hog and stock pur-
poses and upon such soils as we have in
Louisiana neither the artichoke nor the
chufa is a profitable to grow as many
other crops hat we could substitute in
its place, We are growing very sue
cessfullY, in several parts of this state,
hogs upon a most economical scale by
adopting the following policy; in the
fall of the year rust-prooi oats are sown
which ripen early in May, Upon these
oats the hogs are turned, small areas
, at time, and as soon as the oats are
destroyed crop of sweet corn is ap-
preaching maturity lu an adjoining
= lot. Upon this the hogs are turned
and so attractive is the corn, that al
4 this stare they will devour each stam,
!. ear and all.
4 From the cornfeld they are turned
into an adjacent lot of early sorghum,
where they will demolish the stalk in
the same way From this they are
turned into an adjoining lot of Spanish
. peauts. From this they are turned i'm
TO a cornfield filled with early whip
poor-will peas. OF course it is needless
: to say that they fill greedy devour all
these plants. From the corniield they
are turned into sweet potatoe patches
which lasts them until late in the fall,
e when the hogs are ripe for the sham
0 bles.
S In this way the hog is made to gath.
er his own crop, feed himself, and by a
rotation of crops small area will be
able to furnish large amount of for.
e age. There is one farmer in this state
who last year raised 81 hogs, weighing
over 25O pounds apiece, upon less than
ten acres of ground sown and harvested
u in the above described manner, and the
=, only absolute money cost to him was
IS the labor in cultivating the crops
4 which was very small.
7 l regard the sweet potatOe and Span.
ish peanuts as being perhaps the most
: profitable feed we can grow may
d say, further, that by an addition of an
p alfalfa patch, which is ready for the
,. hogs iu early winter, if sown in Octob
et, .,e can carry the hogs the whole
r year through upon fresh fields and pas
lures new, all of which will be botf
f nutritious and fattening, and in ms
4 way hog raising can be carried on bet
Ter in the state OF Louisiana than IN
any other portion OF the country. II
e is estimated that several Of our farmers
:, are by this process raising hogs at
u net cost of less than half cent a pOu &c