The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-01-31
senator owen on Hog n.I.Ina.

Senator Owen on Hog Raising.
Calling on Senator r. L. Owen. To-
day, ! asked him what was the most
important thing he thought OF that
would benefit the Oklahoma farmer?
To my surprise, he replied. Raising
hogs intelligently." ! said to him,
Senator what do you know about
raising hogs? thought your '1ong
suit" was finance and statecraft. The
senators replied, "the basis of state
craft and of finance both will be
found in the proper guidance of the
productive energies of the American
people.
"There is no way in which the land
can be made more productive than
by cultivating the land with view to
marketing Immediately the products
of the land by feeding such products
to swine. have given this subject
much consideration and am pursuing
this policy in systematic way on my
farm in Washington County"
"The first thing to be done is to
have proper housing for the sows so
that their young during the first three
weeks may be thoroughly protected
and Immediately thereafter they
should be systematically furnished
with clean drinking water and an
abundance of acculent food and the
land should be divided up into con-
venient small lots in which could be
raised bermuda, corn and COW peas,
wheat or rye and vetch, rape clover,
and peanuts, soy beans ,chufas, and
sorghum, oats and alfalfa, having a
separate lot for each growing crop, so
that as these crops are ready to be
eaten they may be Immediately har-
vested on the ground by the hogs.
They should. be furnished with plenty
of salt and with an abundance of room
for exercise, and the crops should be
SO planted as to mature in successive
order, in order to furnish continu-
GUS supply of abundant cheap food.
lIf the Oklahoma farmers will pursue
this method they will all become well
on"
"If you stop to consider it you will
see that sow properly cared for will
lfarrow twice, and should average from
ten to twelve grown pigs by the end
of the year, taking one year with an
lother. This means an enormous in
crease on the capital invested after
providing an abundant pay for the
work bestowed upon this matter"
Last September the secretary Of
agriculture issued Circular No. 80 on
"Hog Raising in the South which is
a splendid document, and ought to be
studied by every farmer in oklaho
ma"
Il regard the hardy bermuda as the
most valuable grass in Oklahoma, be
cause it is more nutritious than timo
thy, it is almost impossible to drown
, lit out by flood, and it never does bet
ter than in dry weather, and shoulC
be used in hog raising as feed 10
, from which the hogs would radiat'
to other lots for the reason that i
!, makes a very vigorous turf and pre-
vents the hogs from miring in we
!. weather"
: This grass should be sown from
q the root and planted in rows like corr
a and cultivated, and Will cost from fiv
. to six dollars an acre to put in right
q It should not be sown by the SEED
!. because the seed have a very low v
4 tality,. and VIXEN the young plant !
!. shaded b. weeds it is easily killed.
, nnderstai tie saltwater experimen
;. station will furnish hardy bermud
q roots lor a start. l hope sometime
q have a model farm in Washingto
county where inexpeIieneed farmer
may learn how money can be made OF
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