Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1913-12-24
D|VERS|F|CAT|ON ON
SOUTHERN FARMS
More Money Spent for Pork Than
for Religion and Education.
FACTORIES OF GREAT NEED
-css Are Essential 20 Ssryfsc.ure
Cheap tesUminovs Crops Ths, We
Nus; Grow 10 Increase Pro-
cyetsensss of Our Sells.
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We spend more money for pork
than ye do fo' education and religion.
We send Millions Of dollars 10 the
north and west for pork and pork
productions We are paying Is cents
q pound for pork. and the records Of
the experiment stations and the actual
experience OF hundreds OF farmers
show that pork can easily be produced
In this territory for three cents a
pound
We urge capitalists 10 build fac
tories and encourage the building Of
factories by erempting them from tax.
alton for a period OF years We ex.
empt factories from taxation, and al
the same time send money out 10 pay
for pork manufactured elsewhere We
certainly need factories OF all kinds
Ia all towns and cities. and especially
do we need hogs to manufacture the
cheap leguminous crops that we must
grow 10 Increase the productlveness
OF our soils. the grasses. peanuts. peas.
potatoes and the like into pork and
pork products. The hogs to manu-
facture grasses and grains into pork
will declare by far the larger divi-
dends II Ii not necessary for the
farmer to take stock In cotton factories
In order to be a manufacturer Let
! him keep plenty Of good hogs on his
| farm and he will be one OF the most
prosperous manufacturers OF useful
products.
On r. farm where good pastures can
be had and corn produced In abun.
dance the hog will be found to be a
sure profit producer one year with an
other Good pastures. peanuts, pas
in corn, potatoes. chufas. rape. sor.
! ghum and peas and corn means plenty
| OF cheap pork.
The first Investment is small and
he In the quickest money maker OF all.
He will live and grow fat on the waste
products OF the farm that other stock
will not eat. He IL ready fer market
| almost any time and will bring the top
price II fat. lie multiples rapidly.
and II we only give him good pastures.
pure water and little corn. lie will
do the rest.
bermuda grass alone will keep a
hog In good growing condition all the
summer. Excellent winter and early
! spring pastures can be obtained by
sowing hairy vetch white. red. or burr
clover seed broadcast on the bermuda
or carpet grass sod early In the fall.
Oats, rye. rape or orchard grass plant
| cd early In October furnish good win.
ter pasture for hogs. Peanuts and
sweet potatoes, chufas and artichokes
| planted in April make excellent feed
for hogs in the fall and winter. Two
paintings of peas can be made. one OF
an early variety and one OF a late va.
riety. in April Two varieties can be
planted Mt the same time again In
June or July. Very little corn is nee.
essary.
We can no longer raise cotton to
! buy pork. We must raise cheap crops
of peanuts. COW peas, sorghum. arti.
chokes. red clover, rape and so on for
hogs to Craze. No man has ever been
able to give sensible reason for
growing cotton to pay for bacon and
lard instead OF growing cheap lcgumin.
ous crops to raise hogs No man he's
ever been able to give "A sensible rea.
son for feeding corn from weaving
time to killing time instead OF raising
hogs on pasture grasses and cheap