Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-24
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Common Sense in Raising Hogs.

Common Sense in Raising Hogs.
The receipts of hogs at the large
market ccntcrs We're smaller in the
month of April than they have been
in this month for eleven years and as
result prices have been brisk. For
eign demand for pork products is IN
creasng and prospects seem good for
a satisfactory market for some time to
come.
This very condition of the market,
however will no doubt create pitfall
which will endanger the finances OF
many a swine raiser in the future.
Present prices will tend TO make men
plunge just as they did In the matter
of steer feeding few years ago Seven
and eight cent fat cattle at that time
induced men to pay and cents for
feeders, and these feeders were in turn
fattened and sold on the market for
less per pound. in many instances. than
was paid for them originally the result
being that many feeders were put out
of business.
The best advice that we can give
I our readers on the hog situation is to
go moderately, no matter where prices
may soar during the next few months.
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have been breeding ten or twelve sows
In the past to double this number when
breeding time comes this winter. In
times like these there is splendid OPP
portunity for men to make money out
of hogs by using sensible methods OF
feeding, and greater opportunities lie
along this line. considering the matter
for a series of years, than Will be the
case if men who are accustomed to
handling few undertake to handle
large punches.
We have In mind one individual liv-
ing on quarter section of land VINO
keeps fifteen sows for breeding pur-
poses year In and year out. He gener-
ally raises 100 spring pigs and about
fifty fall pigs, and his plan is to market
his hogs when they weigh about 300
pounds. 1t is an easy matter to estl-
mate the profit that such a one is max
ing during these times, but even when
hogs are cents a pound this party
makes money. He claims that the or
binary man cannot make three times
as much profit out of 800 hogs as he
can out Of 100, and in his opinion the
danger from swine plague and cholera
is so great that 1t is not advisable for
the small farmer to depend entirely on
the sale of hogs for his income.
AS to the 1906 crop 1t may be said
that the mortality among March pigs
was very heavy, tho 1t is generally
conceded that the crop up to date is a
normal one. The thing to DO in the
immediate future is to bring the pigs
to a heavy weight just as early as pos
sible There are men who have no
difficulty in making their entire crop
weigh $50 or 800 pounds at nine
months, and these are the men whose
methods ought to be copied by the
great majority. The man who can
land April pigs on the market next
December or January weighing 275 or
800 pounds will find his venture an
exceedingly profitable one because
Judging by the supply of produce on
hand prices can scarcely break badly
before that time.
Success in Lamb Raising.
Considerable encouragement has
been given the lamb breeding indus
try in territory Immediately south Of
the Ohio river by the success of Ken
lucky and Tennessee growers this sea-
son. While both states have in recent
years largely increased their output
the industry has encountered vicissi-
tudes and failure this year would have
| discouraged many An open winter
with abundance of pasture has enabled
breeders in that section, however, to
secure and save large crop of lambs
and a few weeks hence it will be sup
plying Northern markets. The first
carload of Tennessee lambs has al
ready reached Chicago and Louisville
is expected to be full of them early in
June. Advices from the breeding
ground indicate a crop of 30 per cent
| larger than last year and of good
quality. While Missouri lost the larger
portion of it's early lambs Kentucky
and Tennessee have been more fortu-
nate. Missouri has heretofore been
! first in the field and it's bad luck this
year was mainly responsible for the
paucity of spring lambs in April and
May.
Thousands of breeding ewes We're
| taken into Kentucky and Tennessee
last summer. a fact that partially ac-
counts for the reported 80 per cent
increase, and as good prices seem GER
tain breeding f1ocks will be largely in
creased during the coming summer.
The Middle South is destined to have
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the lamb breeding industry as its spe-
cialty.
Shall the Farmer Store Eggs?
That is the question asked the poul-
try department of U,p-to-Date Farm
er, and the writer is frank to admit
| that he holds all methods for preserv-
ing eggs as a stepping stone to fraud
But, fraud may not be perpetrated.
| Why?
First, stored eggs are not wholesome
| food
Second they are not palaltable food
Third, the eggs are often palmed off,
by INSCRIPTIONS dealers, to an unsus-
pecting public as fresh.
However, there will be stored eggs
as long as hens go on a strike against
producing as soon as bad weather
comes. Therefore. it is proper to con-
| slider the best methods of storing and
preserving.
| OF all the methods recommended.
none would appeal to us so strongly as
| the cold storage, and that system is
certainly reduced to a science, but no