The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-05
Practical on Hog Question

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litter. but from a litter of eight to
twelve for brood Buy q
big brood SOW; that is the kind to
raise a targe litter. Pay attention
to the health of the hogs. They
must ave exercise, clean pens, SAM
tary conditions. The feed hat comes
off the ground is the cheap food.
Don't use all corn, but legumes and
other things. Mix with common
sense. Corn in the hog pays more
than corn sold by itself. The
speakers experience was that it sold
at 20 cents a bushel more. and
money is saved in hauling. To
make money out of hogs they mus
be fed right, especially the SOW with
the Young pigs. Give the little pigs
some milk.
How about b~uttermilke" asked
Mr.. j. NJ. Eddins. of Wakefield.
Better drink that yourself was
the answer of Mr.. French and all the
laughed. Mr.. French went
on TO say Our friend owe there
hearty broke up the meeting two
years & by setting UP in the Win
dow here and saying ne wanted to
go home and get some buttermilk."
A grass pasture should be available
for the hogs to run on. This is
A1NCo"i 60 ~ ~ N'AN
French. In fertilizing land, the
speaker said, there is nothing better
than stable manure, and that IS why
it is wise to have hogs Craze on crops.
There is a market for meat all over
North Carolina. In every grocery
store there is a raeat box, and it is
marked from Chicago. 50 raise
meat. The cotton and corn men may
be at a period when the crop will
not pay the fertilizer bill, but the
man with stock the mar with hogs,
can pat things on the farm into these
and haVe the best of the year.
The hog question was shown to
he a live one With the farmers, for
the remarks Of Mr.. French brought
out more questions and more dis
cussion than had any other address
Nominations and Resolutions.
Announcement was made by Secrc-
tary /. O.. Schau5, of the appointment
Of Two committees these being in
Resolutions; w. j. Shuford, F.. 3.
Newell, w. C. Spruil1. B. F. shelton;
nominations, A. l.. French, w. A.
Sinlptins, L. J. Baker
Following the dinner hour. there
was 4 sale of Berkshire hogs, many
Of the making purchases.
No session was held in the afternoon.
Champion Corn Growcr.
At the night session there came
first an event of much interest. this
being a talk from young Ernest
Starnes. of Hickory. telling how he
raised 146 bushels Of corn on an acre.
This was in 1910. and the young tel
low won a trip to Washington because
Of his splendid record in raising
corn.
Ernest Starnes is seventeen years
of age, we'll grown for his years, a
hearty, substantial looking young fell
| low. He is a son Of Mr.. J.. w. Starnes,
Of Hickory, and his year is planting
bis third crop in a Boys Corn Club
contest. He says of this that he does
not expect a yield as large as last
year q of the drout and the
hot weather.
Young Starnes made a straight
from-the-shou1der talk in telling how
he raised 146 bushels Of corr an acre,
speaking without any notes or manu-
script. He said hat he had started
work in 1909 and had that year
raised IS bushels Of corn on an acre.
In 1910 he selected black sandy loan
land in a bottom, md spread on it two
loads Of stable manure cutting it with
a disk harrow. Then he spread five
more loads of and plowed
deep. Next, he applied four hundred
pounds Of acid phosphate and four
hundred pounds Of lime. narrowing
thoroughly. He worked his acre five
times ana cultivated II SIX tunes. LIE
last Of April and the second of May
he planted in rows three and a half
feet apart. the plants twelve inches
in the row. On the 27th of July. he
laid by the crop He cut and shocked
and found he had exactly 1920
pounds of corn in the shuck, and &c.
a4o pounds OF slower While the
crop was growing there was a freshet
and the corn was under water. After
the water was down he went in bare
footed and tool the dirt out Of the
growing corn and worked the field.
Then he put on more stable manure
He had been told that his crop de-
Perforated at least 25 per cent because
of the overflow.
Young Starnes told of his trip to
Washington and how pleased he was
that Mr.. O. 3. Martin. of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, took charge OF
him and the other boys from various