Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-07-11

Wn6n men lack Cdplldi 10 puT-
chase stock, and while this is true,
vet in more cases there should be
greater endeaver to pull out of
this rut and engage in some kind
of production where the reward
will be surer and where the pos
sibilities of increase are greater.
For the average man who tills
small farm and who is not a
specialist. dairying, grain grow
ing and hog raising may be hap
PLY combined. Wehave in mind
an individual who works eighty
acres and who makes on his
eighty a comfortable living for
himself and in addition is reward
ed by a neat surplus at the end
of each year. He aims to keep
ten sows and an equal number of
COWS. He grows twenty-five
acres of corn and twenty acres of
small grain each year. Of the
grain only a few hundred dollars
worth are sold, the balance be-
ing fed to the COWS and hogs. In
his case the milk is run through
a separator and the cream dis
posed of. his income last year
from the ten COWS being a little
over $50 per head. During con-
siderable part of the year the
warm skim milk is fed to pork
ers, arrangements being made for
both fall and spring filters, in or
der the greatest good may be OBJ
taired from feeding this by-pro-
duct of the dairy. With an out
lay of little less than 500 for
, supplementary hog and cattle
food, this individual disposed of
81, 500 worth of hogs in 1908.
This, in addition to his income
from the COWS, together with the
small amount of grain sold,
brought the income from this
eighty acres up above the So, 900
mark.
You may say that the average
farmer cannot do this well with
his hogs, and while it is possibly
true that there are those who
cannot, vet it may be said that
there was no great amount OF ex-
pert knowledge displayed III this
case, the business simply being
| conducted along common-sense
lines. In the first place there was
no waste. while in the second
place every mouthful of food con-
sumed was transformed into
product that were just a little
better than the other fellows.
Because this individual had regis
tered hogs this in no way lessons
the value of the example when it
is held up to others as model to
pattern after. If you are tired
of your grade hogs and if you
cannot longer feed them so as to
insure yourself a reasonable
profit, why not take a few good
registered ones? Some will claim
that there is danger of the regis
tered hog business being over
done, but a statement of this
kind is entirely meaningless. We
can never have too many good
hogs. And while profits may
not be equally large year after
year, yet the man who has good
registered hogs and takes care of
them, always find them more
profitable than hogs bred for the
block.
The introduction of the separ-
ator has done much for the man
who desires to combine dairying
and hog raising, because it en-
ables him to use his skim milk IN
a way to insure a maximum
profit from it. With a liberal
supply of this splendid hog food,
it is entirely practicable to let
the little pigs suck only eight
weeks and then turn their dams
to the pastures to be fed practi-
cally no more grain until the
grazing period is past. In this
way the little fellows are brought
on cheaply. while the breeding
stock is kept over at a small ex-
pense. Our country would have
better hogs and more of our peo-
pie would find their occupation
profitable if dairying and hog