The Prescott daily news., 1909-07-07

1 mer would keep his hogs at home | i and put in the same amount of | time looking after them and eX- | pendthe same amount of energy | l Tn raising the proper feed he would havelmore meat and of a better quality, and that would | bring a better price on the mar ket The history of the hog where he has been allowed to run at large has been one of strife a. mong enighbors, Whole commun- it es have been embroiled over the ownership of one little old measley razorback hog, Brothers of the same church have been ar oused to such depths of hatred that they have been ready to cut each others throats. Even rela- tions have sworn eternal enmity towards each other over some , fancied wrong about this same raZoTback hog.
 4 hog law would remedy ali this. With the hog law, neighbors could dwell in peace church mem- bers could W orship their God to- gether with a clear conscience, relat atiOns would have no cause for enmity and that class of gentry, the hog thief, would be | forced to eat his meat by the sweat of his brow. Some have gotten the. idea that this law if adopted will go into effect i'm mediately which is a mistaken idea but if adopted will not go into effect until the first day of January 1910 And I hope that it will Zoe adopted. Although I farmed very little. have lived on a farm for the past year, but have owned the farm l am liv- ing on for the past 20 years, and have seemthe evil effects of the hog running at large and l think the best argument in favor Of a hog law lis a case in point and which was demonstrated in my own neighborhood by two Of my neighbors. 1 presume the parties will not be offended if I use their names. During last summer Ob McGuire Kept his hogs confin- ed in woods pasture giving them what slop that came from the table and seeing that they were regularly watered. In the fall he put three of them in pen andais De had to buy corn to fatten them with 1 thought 1t would sbe rather expensive and told him so, and suggested that it would Joe cheaper to buy meat but he thought different and pro- ceedad to buy corn and fatten his hogs. He killed some time in Jan uary, getting something over 700 pounds of meat and 15 or POI gallons of lard. It cost him S15 to fatten the three hogs. about 7 cents a pound. John Mcclure has more hogs running in Garland creek bottom than anybody near Prescott. He has hogs running all the way from old Garland pace to BOughtom, he told me he had no less than 50 head. and a few days ago he bought a side Of meat from his own brother Ob, which is conclusive evidence to me that it is cheaper to raise meat even if you have to buy corn at i65 or 70 centa
 There Is no man who has seen 1t tried but will admit that wher- ever thare is hog law an im- proved class of hogs exist. Then if this be true why not try. Let | every man who believes in an im- proved class of hogs every man lwho pays a road tax, every man who is subject to road duty, whe- ther he pays the road tax or not go to the polls on the 10th | and vote to eliminate the hog from the public highways.
 J. T. BURNS
 As one brother has referred Us to parts of Texas where the hog law existsI will bring the ques- tion nearer home and point out | some of the most important fea- lures of it as it exists in thel northern part of this (Hempsteadl | county.
 The strong argument in favor of the law is that we can have, | better stock.
 There is nothing to this kind of argument but thin air; there | has not been a blooded hog | brought into this part of the 1 county since the law has been ef- l fectiVeG
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