The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-05-29
RAISE HOGS
IN MONTANA
Second Largest Swine Herd in
United States is in North
ern Part of State.

| Gill dIl VI oldlS.
1t is a fact not generally known
that the second largest hog ranch in
the United States is situated in Mon
tana. 1t belongs to F. G. Neidering-
haus, of st. Louis, one of the largest
manufacturers of granite ware in the
country. The property consists Of
5000 acres of we'll watered land, as
fine as can be found in the state and
lies just across the Missouri river
from Oswego, in Dawson county says
the Helena Independent.
AN UP ro-DATE FARM
Three years ago Mr.. Neideringhaus
purchased the ranch and began rails
ing hogs. He has spent thousands of
dollars in improving the property
until now it is considered the most
up-to-date and modern farm in the
northwest. 1t has been Mr.. Neider-
inghaus policy not to do any farm
work that could be done by machin-
cry. He has large gasoline freight
engines, huge steam engines for plow-
ing, other machinery to grind barley
and peas, alfalfa cutters and every
other modern invention designed to
| supplant hand or horse labor.
When he purchased the property he
determined to raise hogs and has fol-
lowed program that was carefully
mapped out on the start. Most of
his pigs were bought in the Bitter
Root valley, where pure bred animals
have been raised for years. In 1908
Marcus Daily shipped in the finest
swine money conld purchase. DR..
Mills is large breeder of pigs until
now the Bitter Root strain has be-
come infused in nearly all the swine
herds of the state.
RAISE 10000 PIGS.
This spring will be the first season
that Mr.. Neideringhaus has raised
pigs for the market. His crop this
year will be over 1900 little porkers
and every succeeding year this will
be Increased until he is raising an
nually for the market 10000 hogs.
which is figured will supply the mar
kets of Butte, Anaconda and Helena.
With pork selling at five cents
pound. which has been the average
price to the growers tor several years,
and the pigs weighing $50 pounds,
each animal will bring a little over So
head
The cost of raising and keeping the
animals until they are ready for mar
ket IS two dollars a head, leaving a
net profit of five dollars on each
animal. When Mr.. Neideringhaus
raises 10000 pigs each year as he in
tends 10 do, his net profit will be
$5O, 900 year.
While many pigs are raised in Mon
tana the supply is not equal to the
demand and the slaughterers are COM
PEELED to ship in hogs from Nebraska
and other middle western states.
Mr.. Neideringhaus spends a con-
siderable portion of each year on the
ranch and is greatly interested in the
work.
NO BETTER BUSINESS
'There is no better business the
farmer of Montana can go into, as
issue, than hog raising" said State
Veterinarian Knowles yesterday.
1.-The pigs need the least care of any
meat producing animal, and Montana
pork is better than the corn fed pro-
duct; the meat is firm and deliciously |
favored. What is wanted IS a |
quickly maturing animal and that can
be and is being raised in this state.
NO TROUBLE TO KEEP.
1.-The young pigs are turned out on
an alfalfa field until they are about
hve months old; then they are taken
into the feeding pens and fattened for
about three weeks on peas and barley
and the finished product is the finest
to be found in the country. 1t is sur
prising the number of pigs that an
alfalfa patch of two or three acres
will support and when they are turned
out it is not necessary to give them
any further care until they are old
enough to fatten. They keep we'll on
the alfalfa and put on flesh which the
peas and barley turn into good firm
meat"