The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-02-21
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small hams and long lean
build. The main breeds of the
lard type are: Duroc Jersey,
Berkshire, Poland China and
Chester White. OF the bacon
type: White Yorkshire a n d
Tamworth. The lard type ma
lures more quickly and will
make as high as 400 pounds
while the bacon type will reach
900 to 700.
Alfalfa is the best pasture for
hogs. Oats and peas make
good pasture. Pastured hogs
make better gains than when
kept in feed lot. Corn 'hogged
off, gives good results.
In hog raising it is important
to have narrowing occur early
enough so as to get the young
pigs ready for market early in
the fall. Have a good place for
narrowing but otherwise it is
not necessary to have any
elaborate shelter. Straw sheds
are good shelters. Hogs must
have exercise and clean quart
ers. 1t is not necessary to cook
food for hogs but it is well in
winter to prepare food with
warm water.
In answer to a question Mr..
Even advised wet food but
not too sloppy, but added that
it was a good thing to put the
hoge on a dry feed for a few
days before shipping for the
reason that they would not
shrink so much on the way to
market.
Mr.. Hoverstad added that
one could get into the live
stock business cheaply through
hogs, that they were cheaply
fed, required little labor and
returned good profits. He sug-
gested fencing a succession of
pastures, as for instance, bronze
grass in one. clover, alfalfa or
barley and oats in another and
squaw corn in a third. He
called attention to the fact that
there was not the need for fin
ishing before shipping as in
the case of cattle.
The Problem Of Marketing
Mr.. Hoverstad was requested
to discuss the problem of mar
keting and said it was a very
difficult question to handle. He
said there was one group of
persons who did little else than
to find fault with existing con-
ditions. They do not get far.
1t requires little skill to find
fault. All human institutions
are more or less faulty. What
we need is to build up, not tear
down. Can improve on present
system without hurting any.
body. OF course. there are
bad middlemen just as there
are bad farmers(in other states.)
The real solution is organiza-
ton. Farmer has been too in
dividualistic. Formerly pro-
duced all things needed. Have
now become more interdepend-
ent that Independent. Living
is more complicated. We now
need helpfulness, not hostility.
At this point the speaker
mentioned a trip to Chicago
and said he noticed that num-
Der of business organizations,
capitalized at $3.50, 600 to $780,
900 found it necessary to have
a meeting of the board of dir
ectors everv day. Then he
asked, How much capital
have your"
Answering himself he said,
Taking the township az a
unit. if your land is worth $35
per acre the real estate is worth
$8O6, 400 and adding the person
al property it is plain that your
capital is over the million
mark. Your population is pro-
badly 400 to 500. Business
men meet every day with half
the capital invested. How
often do the farmers meet7"
Every township should have
an organ ization. There should
be a secretary to attend to the
records and correspondence and
keep in touch with the business
needs of the township, take
advantage of business opport-
unities and make the power of
unity felt. County and state
organizations would naturally
follow and the solution of
market problems would be in
sight.
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