The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-05-18
CHEAP PORK PRODUCTION.
Pastursgs Properly Utilized Makes
Pork at Two Cents per Pound.


During the recent meeting IN FL
Worth OF the Texas Swine Breeders
association. the subject of green FEED
for hogs received considerable atten-
tion. and it was the claim of the ex'
perienced feeders that by the use OF
intelligently prepared pasturage the
cost of pork production could be cut
down to less than two cents a pound.
The following applies TO all the agri-
cultural part of Texas as well as 10
Louisiana. and should be read by ey-
cry 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 the other well known Southern
crops? What is the cheapest way
to make pork in the Gulf states?
This question was recently answered
as follows in the Rural New Yorker
by Director William G. Stubbs of the
Louisiana station:
we have had extensive experience
in the growing Of what might be
called the forage crops for hog and
and stock purposes, ad upon such
soils as We have in Louisiana neither
the artichoke nor the chufa is as prof
liable to grow as many other crops
that we could substitute in its place.
We are growing very successfully in
several parts of this state, hogs upon
most economical scale by adopting
the following policy: In the fall OF
the year rustproof oats are sown,
which ripen early in May. Upon these
oats the hogs are turned. small areas
at a time, and as soon as the oats are
destroyed a crop of sweet corn is ap-
preaching maturity in an adjoining
LOT. Upon this the hogs are turned,
and so attractive is the corn that at
this stage they will devour each stalk
ear and all.
From the corn field they are turn.
ed into an adjacent lot OF early sor.
ghum. where they demolish the stalk
in the same way From this they are
turned into an adjoining lot of Span.
ish peanuts. From this they are
turned into a corn field filed with
early whipporwill peas. OF course IL
is needless 10 say that they will
greedily devour all of these plants
From the corn field they are turned
into sweet potato patches, which
lasts them until late in the fall, when
the hogs are ripe for the shambles.
I'm this way the hog is made to
gather his own crop, feed himself
and, by a rotation of crops, small
area will be able to furnish a large
amount of forage. There is one farm
er in this state who raised last year
sixty-seven hogs, weighing over 250
pounds apiece, upon less than ten
acres of ground sown and harvested
in the above described manner, and
the only absolute money cost to him
was the labor in cultivating the crops
which was very small
Il regard the sweet potatoes and
Spanish peanuts as being, perhaps
the most profitable feed we can grow
] may say further that, by the addi
tion Of an alfalfa patch, which is rea.
dy for the hogs early in the winter, il
sown in October, we can carry the
hogs the whole year through upon
fresh fields and pastures new, all OF
which will be both nutritious and
fattening, and in this way hog raising
can be carried on better in the state
of Louisiana than in any other por
tion of the country 1t is estimated
that several of our farmers are, by
this process, raising hogs at a net
cost of less than half a cent a pound