The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-12-12
RAISING Of HOGS.
Conditions Most Favorable for Hog
Raising Here.


Made free by the nature Of the eli
mate from every disease known to the
industry, with thousands of tons of the
best feed right at the door with a
market constantly demanding more
supplies to meet it's Unsuitable appe-
tite, A. V. Tallman, one of the engi-
neers in the office Of the government
duty of water Investigations, consid-
ers Idaho the ideal spot for the great
est hog industry in the United States,
says the Statesman. His recent trips
through all parts of the state and the
studies that he made during his inves-
legations last summer has led him to
believe that with the dairy industry,
the raising of hogs is to be one of the
chief things for which the state will
become famous in the next IL years.
There is never slump in the mar
ket for pork" said Mr.. Tallman
Hogs are always in demand. The
state has never known a visit of the
dread hog cholera that makes the bus
mess such tremendous risk and that
takes off droves of hogs in nearly
every other state in the Union every
year. The climate is against it and
there is no necessity for feeding them
corn like other farmers have to do.
Idaho raises it's own barley and it's
own alfalfa and these two things will
put the latest and best pork hog on
the market in the minimum length of
time at minimum expense
with the feed at our door and the
necessity of paying freight rates done
away with, Idaho farmers are ideally
situated for the center of the hog rails
ing industry of the country Within
seven months they can put 2OO-pound
hog on the market with the assurance
of price ranging from cents to ~
cents pound OF course the farmer
can't make big profits on the fine
breeds of animals sold as pork He
must meet the demands of the market
which are for the biggest hog in the
least amount of time and with the least
possible expense. He can't do that
with fine hogs. He must steadily in
crease the quality of his breeds,
though, and do away with the inferior
ones until he reaches the point that
will pay him the biggest profits. There
is fine field for the high-priced
blooded animal in this state and the
demand for them is never lacking, but
they cannot be sold in the pork mar
net at a DIOul.
THE trouble at present is that there
are too many inferior breeds in the
state. Practically every farm house
has several hogs, but they raise them
for their own use. The surplus grain
and hay that some of the tracts are
producing would be utilized to the
fullest extent and the products of the
state would be given the best value if
hog raising were gone into systema-
ucally and extensively by every farm
er in Idaho"
Nearly every farmer raises his hogs
much like he raises his children-in
a happy-go-lucky kind of way If his
children go to school and get their
education properly, it is all right. If
they don't it's all right. That's the
way he handles his hogs If they are
good hogs and bring a good price, all
right. If they are not he lays it down
to a matter of luck and goes ahead to
raise some more of the same kind.
That's not the successful farmer nor
the successful hog raiser, any more
than it is the successful parent. Care
i'll the raising, systematic study and
the use of good horse sense, has got
TO form the mainstay of the hog raiser
just as they must form the mainstay in
the raising of the children of the
state.