Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-02-10
PROM In Hogs.

Iowa, in a paper read before the Kan.
sas State Board of Agriculture. gave
the results of forty years experience
as a h%og-raiser. IL contained much
valuable instruction, from which We
CLEAN the following:
i ave been in the hog industry
Tor the average human life time. |
went into the business to make n
and have made IL, and out OF the
hog. | have stayed in the hog bust.
ness because there was money In it.
started with n pair at SIPS apiece.
afterward sold hogs dressed 1T s1.75
per hundred pounds. But | got away
nom that style of hog.
Years after that first experience I
stood in the Chicago market and had
the proud satisfaction of selling four
carloads of hogs OF my own raising.
every n OF them. and received for
them $3.50. When that check was
cashed there was not a mortgage left
or the home, and there has not been
one on IL since. You sec | W to the
hog the greater part OF my worldly
possessions. For twenty years my an.
hual sales averaged over $4,000. When
the children grew up and had TO be
sent away TO school, and when the
wheat crop failed, as II 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 10 you plainly in
regard to breeding and feeding hogs
IN the manner that has been most
profitable to me. What | say in re.
gard to this animal is not theory, but
is personal experience, at close range.
The first Requirement n the hos in.
dustry IL a sood hog house. Thsre
is too much risk from loss unless ycu
have proper shelter for both brood
sows and young hogs.
Another important thing is the pas.
ture.
All the leading breeds ere good
enough for me.
81 never lose z sow in farrowlng-
not one.
You are nc hog man unless you arc
or good terms with you lows
1T requires brains to make good
hogs.
Il have my pigs come along in MAY,
after we are sure of good weather.
Then / let them run in the pasture
the whole summer. and they grow to
he long, lank, big-boned and big.mus.
cled fellows. No fat on them yet. she
following September We commence
fattening them. In February they
weigh 400 lbs.
There is nothing tina. will fatten
hogs better than ear corn and water.
With shoats II is entirely different
Oats and shorts makes an ideal feed
for young shoats.
The hog is the cleanest domestic
animal we have. If properly cared for,
Il never had hog cholera on my
farm, but they had 1t all around me
Of late years.
After l have my hogs fattaned, |
would not drive them to market. but
haul them. Then | would have my
cars well bedded; ride with them my.
self; go with them TO Chicago; stay
with them in the yards, water, feed
and stay by them until they cross tho
scales. Stay right with them.
There is money in the hog bushes:
II 1t is properly conducted. There Is
no money in 1t IL it is .ot properly
conducted. There is no reason why
science cannot be employed in feed
ing hogs any more than In the con
struction Of a railway bridge. You
have to think. You have to expert
ment. Every man is the architect OF
his W fortune. Let him get up and
hustle. and do some thinking, get &C
tion on himself, and lucE vii, follow
him.
81 have made a success in swine
raising. True, too, ! have fed cat
tie all my life. and raised horses all
my life. We used to raise a great deal
of wheat. ! lost money raising wheat
but ! never lost money raising hogs
never did. The hog has always beer
the one ] could fall back on"
Yield of Wheat In Three Countries.