The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-25
THESE ARE
. HI OG D AY s

Swine breeders and feeders have en-
prosperity probably never before
equaled in this branch of live stock
husbandry. Prices for breeding stock
have remained on an attractive basis,
and pork has sold close to record fig
ures. Whenever the hog grower can
secure a nickel pound for pork there
is substantial profit in producing IT.
Present prices, therefore mean that
porkmakers are securing very profita-
bic returns. Good prices for hogs and
relatively low prices for beef serve TO
emphasize the Importance of breeding
several classes of live stock so as to
be ready for market appropriations
when they occur. A stock farm is not
complete without its proper quota OF
hogs. Experience indicates that it is
wise to stick to hogs and TO cattle,
sheep and horses, keeping the farm
suitably stocked and balanced. Hogs
multiply rapidly, are soon fed out, and
their management is simple and mex
pensive. Commercially it is all right
to go in for the whole hog, but not
wholly for hogs. Next year it may
take the steer or the sheep to pull the
hog through at a profit, concludes the
Breeders Gazette. Chicago.
Pigs For the General Farmer.
The cut from Rural New Yorker
shows a group of Jersey Red pigs on a
New Jersey farm, breed of which it
is said that it has many merits, being
Ill n - l.,
eraI purpose farmer. They are of good
form. strong constitution. hearty feed
ers, do well on pasture and they make
carcasses which cut up profitably. The
sows are prolific breeders and good
mothers.
Cash In Hogs.
That the American hog grower is re-
ceiving more than his just dues when
he cashes in prime hogs at 81 per hun
dredweight is improbable, says the
Breeders Gazette, Chicago. Over in
Canada $500 is being paid for bacon
grades, a figure that makes it prac-
tically impossible for Canadian curers
to compete successfully in the British
market. Packers may protest at cur
rent prices and claim that they are
up tuc pIOuuCI dl IL IOSS, DuL
the present hog market is on a legiti-
mate basis. Stockyard sentiment is
not Immediately bullish, but prediction
is made that before new crop of hogs
is available killers will pay Z cents for
straight loads without looking over the
fence at the goods. There is no better
property on the American farm today
than a reliable mature, rangy breed
ing SOW.
Hog Farming For the south.
The south uses more pork in proper.
ton to the number of its inhab itants
than any other section of the country,
and yet the bulk of this meat comes
from the great corn belt of the middle
west. Hog raising Is a type of farm
ing to which a large portion of the
south is very well adapted, and there
is no reason why the southern farmer
cannot produce at least enough pork
for home consumption.
The chief requisites for successful
hog raising are pure water, good
pasture with plenty of shade and a
soil sufficiently fertile to grow feed
crops at a small expense. There are
few sections in the south where such
conditions are not found. While it is
true that the southern farmer cannot
produce corn as cheaply as his brother
farmer in Illinois, Iowa or Missouri,
he has the advantage Of having at his
command a much greater variety of
meat producing plants and season Of
almost continuous pasture. Alfalfa,
Bermuda grass, lespedeza and white
,i-1, ho-
ture, and vetch, bur clover, rape and
the winter cereals will produce an
abundance Of winter grazing. One
acre well set in alfalfa will furnish
grazing for fifteen to twenty head of
hogs from April 60 September. A sew
en- acre alfalfa pasture in central Ala
bama furnished grazing from March
% to Sept. % for 115 to 1913 hogs and
also produced during this period nearly
six tons Of fine hay.-M. A. Crosby.
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