Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1911-01-18
HOGS VS.. BOIL WEEVIL.
Georgia Farmer Has New Way to
Fight enemy to Cotton.
(Atlanta Constitutions. }


of Shelman, Ca, one of the largest
farmers III the southern part of the
State, who was in the city yesterday
for the purpose Of disposing of a car
load Of hogs which he raised while
taking his own advice.
According to Mr.. Oliver, the far
mers Of this State cannot only raise
hogs as we'll as they can be raised
anywhere else in the country, but on
them he can realize a most handsome
profit. In proof Of this assertion, Mr..
Oliver points out that he had ;us.
sold car OF hogs which did not
cost him, at the outside, more than
four cents per pound to raise, while
the price he obtained for them here
was seven cents per pound, a prct:y
fair profit, according to his way Of
thinking.
And not only Is there money in
raising hogs, Mr.. Oliver points out,
but the success of the business is not
dependent upon seasons, at least, not
when run as he runs 1t. For Mr.. Oil
yer, unlike most farmers, is not de-
pendent upon the crop raised during
year for the sustenance Of the hogs.
he expects to sell in the winter--not
by any manner Of meaning
There Is always at least one years
supply Of corn ahead in Mr.. divers
barns, and If his crop one year isn't
as good as 1t might be- he isn't wor-
ried in the least as to where the
: wherewithal to feed his pigs Is COM
ing from. He already has it on
hand. The carload he sold in Allan
ia were fattened entirely upon corn
raised during 1909, and he still has
some 500 bushels of that "year-be-
fore last" corn on hand.
Rustic for Themselves.
In explaining how he manages TO
raise hogs SO cheaply, Mr.. Oliver said
that one big item Of cost he saves is
gathering the food on which the hogs
live. He so arrangcs his crops that
he gathers nothing the pigs eat save
the corn which is fed TO them after
they have been penncd for fattening.
The feed they get for the remainder
of the time he keeps them, they gath
er for themselves just where it grew.
Mr.. Oliver states that he has some
thing over 500 acres Of his 3 3,0O0-acre
farm fenced. This he divides into
five fields, planting two in oats, one
In rye, another in corn and peas, and
the other in ground peas. In March
he turns his hogs into one OF the oat
fields and allows them to remain un-
til they have grazed the field thor
oughly. He then turns the hogs into
the other oat field, sowing the first in
an early variety Of peas. BY the time
the second field has been thoroughly
grazed, he puts the hogs into the
field OF peas, and later into the rye
patch, the rye having ripened by this
time. Later he gathers his corn, be-
tween the rows Of which peas have
been planted and turns the hogs
loose to gather the peas. In Decem-
Der he makes the last shift. this time
putting tho hogs into the field plant
ed with peanuts. Here they are al
lowed to remain until the peanuts are
gone, after which they are pcnned
and fed entirely on corn for six or
eight weeks. Then they are ready
for the market.
Il Carload Each Year.
The carload OF hogs which Mr..
Oliver brought Tuesday afternoon is
not the first he has shipped here, not
by any means. For a number OF
years past he has brought in a like
number at about the same time, and
he is now making preparations to
double the number next year AS to
what his increase in 1911 will be,
Mr.. Oliver isn't quite certain at this
time, but he intimates that if the
boil weevil IS only half as bad as it
is cracked up to be he's going to de-
vote a whole lot more time to hogs
and whole lot less to the ncecy sta
pie than he has ever done before.
AS it is, Mr.. Oliver plants almost
as much land in corn as he does in
cotton. Formerly he planted equal
parts in both, but he found that he
was raising more corn than he need
ed or could sell to advantage and so
cut down the acreage slightly. At
present he plants 13 l-3 acres in corn
to every 90 acres in cot ton HE NV
crage cotton crop is 800 bales, while