The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1909-11-04
Pork Production.

least unity COuntACS III thAo St0SS'
We must diversity our crops. We
can no longer depend on cotton
money to pay for bacon, lard,
mules, and other farm products.
We must either live at home or
not live at all. We MUST now
do what we should have been doing
for forty years.
Hog raising offers the farmers OF
this state an opportunity to make
quick, sure, and big money. Many
farmers will not be able to grow
cotton proftably on the larger part
of their farms. The government
does not advise farmer to plant
cotton on very rich or on 'late"
land. The cotton grows too rank
on rich land and it is impossible
to make an early crop of cotton on
'1ate" land. Consequently thous-
ands of acres of land must be de-
voted to pastures and food crops.
We need good hogs to manufac-
ture grasses, peanuts, peas, rape,
chufas, sweet potatoes, SOFA beans,
artichokes, and other farm prod
ucts into bacon and lard Bermuda
grass alone will keep a hog in a
good growing condition all the
summer. Excellent winter and
early spring pasture can be OBJ.
tanned by sowing hairy vetch,
white, red, or burr clover seed
broadcast on bermuda or carpet
grass sod early in the fall. Oats,
rye, rape, or orchard grass planted
early in October furnish good win
ter pasture for hogs. Peanuts,
sweet potatoes, chufas and arti-
chokes planted in April make ex-
cellent feed for hogs in the fall and
winter. Two paintings of peas
can be made, one of an early vari-
ETY. and Que of a late variety, in
April. The two varieties can be
planted at the same time again in
June or July. Very little corn is
necessary.
We can no longer raise cotton
to buy pork. We must now raise
cheap crops of peanuts, cowPeas,
sorghum, artichokes, red clover,
rape, and so on for hogs to Craze.
No man + s ever been-able to give
a sensible reason for growing cot
ton to pay for bacon and lard in
stead of growing cheap leguminous
crops to raise hogs. No man has
ever been able to give a sensible
reason for feeding corn from wean-
ing time to killing time instead of
raising hogs on pasture grasses
and cheap leguminous crops. #
we wish to make the greatest. suc-
cess raising hogs, we must grow. a2g
cheap crops for the hogs to- Craze,
The following is taken from Bull
letin No..,Ifoz by Prof. j. w. Fox
of the Delta Station. asWe wish
to call particular. attention to the
Importance ola pea, field. planted
in corn at.tHe last working, as a
factor in ! cheap pork production.
We made an experiment last fall
to determine the. value of such
pasture, the result of which should
be very gratifying to Southern
farmers, who have a monopoly on.
such a pasture. The Northern
farmer cannot grow peas planted
in corn, but must give them the
use of the land during the entlEe
growing season"
"After the corn was gathered,
ffty-one spring pigs were turned
into the pea field of seventeen
acres. They had no additional
feed. The gain made from the
peas was 28o3 pounds, or I7o
pounds per acre. Atsix cents-per
pound, this gives value for the
peas of 5000 per acre. And this
is net, as the hogs did their own
harvesting. Also the manure and
humus from the stalks, vines and
seed were left on the land By
tests made at the station for two
years to determine the value of
peas grown in corn as fertilizer,
it has been found that they increase
the succeeding cotton crop by no
pounds of lint per acre.
Prof. Fox is one of the most
practical as we'll as one of the best
posted scientific farmers in this
state. His work at the Delta Sta