The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-02-10
Senator Owen on Hog Raising.

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Calling on Senator X. l.. Gwen to-
day, / asked him what was the most
important thing he thought Of that
would benefit the Oklahoma farmer7
TO my surprise, he replied, "Raising
hogs intelligently." said to him,
Senator, what do you know about rais-
ing nogs? l thought your long suit"
was hnance and statecraft. The Sem
ator replied, ''the basis of statecraft
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 product
of the land ny feeding such products TO
swine. / have given this subject much
consideration and am pursuing this
policy in a 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 succuent food and the
and 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
'Jrghum, oats and alfalfa, having u
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
,or exercise, and the crops should be
50 planted as to mature in successive
order, in order to furnish continuous
supply OF abundant cheap food. If the
oklahoma farmers will pursue this
method they will all become well off I"
If you will stop to consider it you
will see that SOW properly cared for
will farrow twice, and should average
from ten to twelve grown pigs by the
end of the year, taking one year with
another. This means an enormous
increase 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 Oklahoma.
81 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 it
out by flood, and 1t never does better
than in dry weather, and should be
used in hog raising as a feed lot from
which the hogs would radate to other
lots for the reason that it makes a very
vigorous turf and prevents the hogs
from miring in wet weather"
"This grass should be sown from the
root and planted in rows like corn and
cultivated, and will cost from five to
six dollars an acre TO put it right. 1t
should not be sown by the seed, be-
cause the seed has very low vitality,
and when the young plant is shaded by
weeds it is easily killed. understand
the Saltwater Experiment Station will
furnish hardy bermuda roots for a
start. hope sometime to have Il
model farm in Washington County
where inexperienced farmers may
learn how money can be made out of a
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