Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-10-20
Farmer Of the South
Urged to Raise Hogs.

Washington, D. c., October 49,
The people of the South should keep
at home the thousands of dollars
which they are annually sending in
to the West for meat and the farm
ers of the South can bring about
this much desired condition and can
at the same time realize handsome
profits for themselves if they will
engage in the raising of hogs more
extensively, declares Professor Dan
T. Gray of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute who has charge of thi de-
partment of Animal Industry at
Auburn and is also an Expert in
Animal Husbandry in the Bureau
of Animal Industry of the United
States Department Of Agriculture,
in Farmers Bulletin All, entitled
Feeding Hogs in the South, just
issued by the department.
Hogs can be raised as cheaply
in the South as anywhere else and
in many cases more cheaply but
hogs can not be raised profitably
on corn alone, says Prof. Gray, and
in the bulletin he gives in full de-
tail the proper methods of feeding
hogs in order to realize a profit.
Figures are given showing the results
obtained from the use of various
feeds in experiments conducted at
different points in the South. The
bulletin should prove of much value
to any Southern farmer and its cir
culation will doubtless result in a
greatly increased activity in hog
raising President W. W. Finley of
the Southern Railway Company who
is greatly interested in having the
South raise its food supplies at home
will be glad to have copy of this
bulletin sent to any farmer in the
South who will address a request
to him at 1900 Pennsylvania Ave
nue., Washington, D. G. or request
may be made directly to the Dep
artment of Agriculture.
Before going into the details OF
the proper feeding of hogs, Prof
Gray makes some very interesting
observations, showing how the rails
ing of more hogs in the South will
prove benefit to the whole section.
He gives figures showing the con-
sumption of home raised and west
ern animals in Birmingham, Ala, in
1907 proving that in that year alone
more than a million dollars went
out of Birmingham into distant
states all of which should have gone
into the pockets of Southern farm
ers. Other reasons why Southern
farmers should raise more hogs are
stated as follows:
Pork can be made as cheaply,
and perhaps more cheaply, in the
South than in any other section Of
the country. And there are many
reasons why our Southern farmers
should introduce this line of animal
production into the farming system.
One of these reasons is mentioned
above, the money spent for meat by
the Southern people would be kept
at home. Another is the influence
it wouldIprobably have on the price
of cotton. 1t will never be possible
for the South to control the price of
cotton until the Southern farmer
places himself in such a position
that he can hold the crop after it is
produced. So long as all the farmers
are required to sell the entire crop
of cotton each fall, so long will its
price be an unreliable and UNSTABLE
one. The only way by which a far
mer can place himself in a position
where he will not have to sell all his
cotton each fall is to produce some
thing in addition to cotton; and I'M
questionably one of the best sup
plements to the cotton crop would
be the raising Of hogs. The hog
business can be so managed that
the owner can have money coming
in from it at least twice year,
which would enable him to hold his
cotton as long as he pleaSes.
Furthermore, the hog is especl-
ally adapted to the farmer with
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