The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1912-01-12

something new about them. l have in
my minds eye certain kind of COW
for dairy COW, a certain kind OF hog
for bacon, a certain kind of hog for
land etc. So the farmer should study
and acquaint himself with the animals
on the farm, but first of all you have
to burn in your mind a picture of the
ideal for which you are striving. | be-
lieve Mr.. Royston, president of this as
ISOLATION would rather get into hog
pen today and study hogs than to so
to a grand opera in Chicago; and
am sure | would, for | am not much of
lover of grand operas. But, anyway,
tell you in all kindness there are lots
of hog yards | would rather be in than
in some crowds of young people.
We have to know what constitutes a
good hog, then we have to know what
feeds may be proftably fed in this
country. 1t don't make any difference
what kind of hogs you have you can go
broke on them if you don't know how
to feed them.
Nutrition means the power to change
feed into the things you want; it is
the power of the horse to change oats
and hay into speed and pull; it is the
| power of the COW to change her feed
| into milk. The subject of nutrition is
an interesting and important study.
| believe the time will come when it
will be cheaper to put pork from Twin
Falls into the Europeon market than it
will be to Chicago. l have no doubt
| about it. Just as soon as our water
ways are completed we can send our
products down to Portland down
through the canal and across. Ship
ping by water is very much cheaper
than by rail and then meat products
ship easily. They will keep.
What we want to find out is what to
feed, when to feed and how much to
feed. Then we want to confer with
the railroads and the people of Port
land and let them know we want the
benefit of the trade. This is the OBJ
ject of this meeting We had a pre-
liminary meeting at the state fair and
decided that we should hold our first
meeting here in connection with the
dairy convention. | believe the mem
bership fee was fixed at 81. We would
like to have you join in this investiga-
ton. We want facts and the publica.
ton of these facts and this is the pur.
pose of our meeting here today.
; After Mr.. Hubbard's address shor
DuSlLeSS IuetlluS was uelu dHu III
meeting adjourned till 100 p. m.
: The afternoon meeting was called tt
: order by President Royston, who in
: troduced as the first speaker, Mr.. H. L
! Fest of Emmett, Idaho.
5 Mr.. Fest gave an interesting address
/ on 1.-The Care and Feeding of Swine.
He said that some people thought tina
if they went out two or three times
day and threw out little grain to tn
hogs and filled the trough with waite
that that was about all there was t
r the feeding of the hog. But before h
} had finished his talk he had convince
: some at least that the subject Of feed
} ing and caring for the hog was on
l that required great deal of studyin
} in order to get the best results. H
: thinks that growing pigs, even thong
: they are running on pasture. shout
have little grain as soon as they ar
t month old. The quicker you can &c
l the hog to weigh 200 pounds the NOR
} profit you will get out Of him one yea
/ with another, is his theotry. That hi
i address had been we'll taken by hi
, hearers was shown by the numerou