Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-19
MOST PROFITABLE
farm STOCK
Topic Discussed by Otero
Agricultural Club
HOGS ARE GIVEN
THEIR INNINGS
Duroc-Jerseys are Both Revenue
Producers If You Get the Best

With each recurring meeting of
the Otero Agricultural club the
attendance keeps increasing, at
testing the fact that the members
are interested and receiving bene-
fits from the discussions that
amply repay them for the time
thus spent twice month.
At the regular meeting on Sat
urday afternoon the club room at
the factory was taxed to its capac-
ity to accommodate the crowd.
Eleven visitors were present-and
they'll come again was the report
of every one that afternoon.
The subject for this meeting
was continuation of that 30 ex-
cellently begun by w. Il. Dye at
the last meeting, 1.-The most profit
able stock ON the farm" and A. P.
Kouns and G. L. Burke were the
speakers, having for their topics
Berkshire and Duroc-,)ersey hogs
respectively.
Mr.. Kouns was the first speak
er, and in emulation of Mr.. Dye
he used the blackboard quite free
ly to illustrate his lecture, which
was mastery and very instruct
ivesstatement of how to farm hogs
for profit.
THE speaker took for illustra-
tion an S0-acre farm and divided
it into four equal sections, on one
of which, of alfalfa sod, he kept
his hogs, segregated to 5-acre
tracts during the summer: another
20-acre section he had in alfalfa;
yet another in small grain, seeded
to alfalfa; and on the fourth sec
ton he grew barley and sugar
beets, the latter to keep Manager
Noble of the factory in good hu-
NOR, and with the crop he bought
corn for his hogs. Each succeed
ing year he proposes to move his
hogs onto the alfalfa sod section
and plant the tract left to barley
and sugar beets, thus securing
crop rotation and good fertile soil
well cultivated for his grain and
beet crops.
Mr.. Kouns had exhaustive notes
of the exact cost of everything, the
returns received and labor ex-
pended, and conclusively proved
that he had yearly net profit of
1920 from his herd of I3 Berk-
shires--l2 sows and n boar-and
still retained the revenue produc-
ers.
G. L. Burke followed with a
very interesting and instructive
history Of the Duroc-J ersey hog.
He told of how the red hog had
been brought from Spain to New
Jersey, where it had Immediately
attracted favorable attention. Com
petition amongst the breeders
gradually eliminated the scrub
and strengthened the good points
of the best blood until what was
known as the Jersey red hog fin
ally reached the pens of a New
York fancier who "bred up" the
type of cherry colored hog of the
present day, to which he gave the
additional name of favorite
horse Duroc, and thus came the
Jpresent hyphenated name of Du-
rock ersey to this fine animal.
Mr.. Burke gave an array of facts
and figures to show that the Du-
roc was the most profitable type
of hogs in this alfalfa growing
section, aud wound up with the
following original poem:
All honor lie to the little red pig
As he eats and sleeps and grunts and grows
He grows as he sleeps. and will soon be big.
As he lengthens out from his tail 20 his nose
You may toll and sweat and shovel and dig,
And your labor harvest surely rcaps;
But you can't compete with tho little red pig
For the ltile red pig grows while he sleeps.