Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-03-03
BACON HOG PROFITABLE
FATTENED ON PEAS 1T BRINGS
HIGHEST PRICES
WISCONSIN GROWS BEST PEAS
500 Line will Bring In Thoroughbred
Pigs for Farmers Free of Freight
Charges

The address by M. S. Reuell, travel
ling freight agent for the 500 Line,
was listened to by small but interest
ed audience of farmers at the opera
house Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. Deuel. was raised on a farm in
Michigan and had for several years seen
hogs successfully fattened on peas.
Wisconsin is more adapted to raising
peas than Michigan, because a certain
worm that effects them there does not
do so here. The hog pea will yield
about 40 bushels per acre on clay soil,
and for fattening hogs one bushel Of
peas is wol tn 2s bushels of corn. The
quality of meat produced is what is
known as the "bacon pork" and sells
for II to cents more per pound on the
market than corn-fed pork. Denmark,
Ireland, Canada and Michigan are the
only places now supplying this kind of
pork. Wisconsin so far is only supply
ing the seed peas for Michigan and part
Of Canada.
A yield of 80 bushels of peas is equal
in value for fattening to 100 bushels of
good corn. One acre will fatten six
hogs, together with clover pasturage
and little barley. Bacon hogs bring
the best price at six months old, weigh
ing 180 to 230 pounds. The Yorkshire
breed of hogs is recommended as the
best for this kind of feeding. These
pigs can be bought of Swift & Co. of
South st. Paul; Dan PEBBLES, Anoka,
MINI; T. H. Garfield, Lake Park, MINI;
or w. T. Werk, Herman, Mimi. Pigs
ordered this spring will be delivered
free of freight by the 500 Line at Lady
smith and various other points along
the line, man being sent with them
by the company to insure safe delivery.
Besides being the best hog feed, peas
are great fertilizer for the soil, de-
posting 124 pounds of nitrogen per acre
every year. They must be rotated
with other crops-barley or clover
every two or three years, or the land
will become overcharged with nitrogen.
The tops, if properly cared for after
threshing, make the best kind of ensil-
age for feeding dairy cows. Northrup,
King & Co. sell seed peas--be sure to
order ''hog peas. .
The peas yield best when drilled in,
but may be put in by sowing and har-
rowing, if the ground is well prepared.
When ripe, instead of moving, just pull
with an ordinary dump rake. After
threshing, the vines should be- stacked
and weighted down by being covered
with few loads of marsh hay. The
peas should be ground and fed as
meal. Young pigs should be fed the
meal mixed in sterilized Gskimmed milk.
Land farmed in this wise will yield
over 500 per acre more than the best
corn land in the corn belt. The plan is
endorsed by Supt. McKerrow at Madi-
son. 1t is not new, except TO Northern
Wisconsin, as farmers in Canada and
Michigan have been fattening hogs
with peas for thirty years, and in Den
mark for more than hundred years.
The interest manifested by the rail-
road company is not an unselfish one,
as they are looking years into the fu-
ture, and would like to see the farmers
of this section shipping as much produce
to market as those of other sections of
the great northwest.