The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-14
FARMERS OF UTAH
OVERLOOKING BET
Expert on Hog Raising Gives
Pointers on Possibilities
for Profit.
GOOD USE FOR ALFALFA
SUGGESTS METHODS OF TURN
ING PRODUCE INTO PORK.

Utah could raise hogs which would
be second to none If the farmers or
this state cared 10 take up the In
dustry," declared James Baynes, pub
Usher OF the American Swlneherq OF
Chicago ana one OF the greatest auth or
titles on the subject OF hogs IN the
world, at the home OF his son, H. l.
Bayaes Of salt Lake, last night.
Ordinarily, il takes corn TO raise
hogs said Mr.. Baynes. "and Farmers
raj hogs in order TO market their
corn; but you have, IN this state, one
OF the best feeds known 10 sclenLlIlc
stOckmen Of the nation, ana thal Ieeu
Is alfalfa. j do not mean 10 INFER that
alfalfa by itself viii fatten hog, but
IL viii grow the hog, and, coupled Win
A little grain. will fatten II nicely. You
could raise SOY beans, or you cOulu
use peas. 1 understand yOu have sew
eral canneries near this city where
peas are put up in large quantity.
"a farmer must accommodate MN
sell 10 what ne can grow. suo =
scriber Of the American SWIneherd
who lives in Texas wrote me not long
ago that he can raise three times as
many hogs on an acre or peanuts as
he can on an acre OF corn. But not
Withstanding such discoveries II mas
been truIhfuly said by an eminent
professor OF a noted agricultural col
lege that 80 per cent OF American Tar
mers do not know how 10 Ieed d
hog ia the scientific manner OF get
farmer viii put seventeen pounds OF
TAT ON a pig with one bushei OF grain,
nine other men Will put only eight
pounds on the same animal
Popular aad Profitable.
"The hog today is the most popular
and profitable animal on the farm,
This is a progressive age, and there Is
just as much opportunity on a farm
ks there is in the city. Nearly every
sensible farmer in the hog raising
business is making money There is
40 reason why Titan should not get
some of that coin. This state should
81 least raise all its own pork and
bacon, and i believe that before long
Il will. Utah is similar to number
a the southern states, where, IN pre-
NlOus years, there was only one crop
cotton or sugar; but now the south
Is producing practically all or its own
hogs and the percentage Is lncreas-
nj the farmers Of Utah would take
up the raising or hogs and feed the
stock on alfalfa mixed with peas, soy
profitable business. There Is more
nitrogen and prOtein-JwO very essen
tai ingredients-iu alfalfa than IN
any other plant growth
AIR. baynes has studied hog life Tor
nearly seventy years. He was born
and reared on a farm, and as his par
euts believed in the pork industry, ne
saw much of IL in his bOyhOOd- Later
he began raising pigs himself, and
twenty-five years ago he founded the
American SWlneherd in Alexandria ).
d. moving the esta blishment some
five years later to Chicago, where the
paper has since been published Mr..
Baynes is in touch, through his pub
LEGATION. with 35. 600 farmers in all
parts of the country and with every
agricultural college in the land. He
viii be 20 years old November 80 next,
the date being the same as was cele
hrated annually by Samuel Clemens
with cakes. candles and wishes for
many happy returns.