The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-11-21
GROWING P0RKERS
IN hAURY COUNTY
A PROFIT MAKER
RESULTS OBTAINED BY ]. g.
FARMER, OF CULLEOkA,
WITH RED HOGS.
THEY ARE QUICK TO DEVELOP
Other Reasons Are Given for Pre-.
ference for the Duroc-Jerseys.-
Experienced Grower Tells Of How
He Achieves the Best Results.

He Achieves the Best Results.
That raising hogs, just plain meat
hogs, not simply hogs with long
pedigree to sell at fancy prices, can
be made a most profitable industry |
in Maury county, has been demon
strated by J. B. Farmer, prominent
farmer of the Culleoka section. Not
that Mr.. Farmer does not raise
thoroughbred hogs with registered
pedigrees for he does and he be
|lieves in fine stock, but the great
majority of his product are sold to
the packers.
There are doubtless very many in
Maury scounty, it is safe to say a
majority, who will agree that the
red hog, the Duroc Jersey, Is not to
be compared in beauty of head and
color and conformation to the Berk-
shire, but this is an age of utility.
Folks these times of the high cost
ofliying are more concerned about
the thing that pays best than they
are about what looks best to the
eye.
Mr. Farmer would not argue that
the red hog is as handsome an ami
NAL as the black type, but he has
found from his experience that the
former is the more profitable OF the
two and therefore he prefers the
Duroc Jersey. A visit to his farm
will reveal bunch of about seventy
five of the finest porkers one could
expect to see. They will average
not less than 300 pounds to the head
and there is not hog in the bunch
! that is a year old. Many of them and
, some of them the heaviest too, are
not more than nine months OF age
He has just number of nine months
. pigs" that will weight 300 pounds
, and may go over that.
) Il raise the red hogs" said Mr.
!. Farmer" because they are more pro
itable than the others. In the hrs
! place | have never had a type o
> hogs that were so prolific as thu
q Duroc Jerseys. Again the pigs grow
. faster and develop quicker. They arr
. a little harder too. 1t may be oh
! iected that they are not as pretty t
= look at as the Berkshires and tina
, the meat may not taste quite
good, but they bring just as nue.
) per pound on the market and Whel
. one is looking for results, especiall
! with corn at 81 a barrel he is quit
!. likely to select that kind of hog
II which made the best returns on tn
investment"
- Mr.. Farmer lives with his hogs
! He keeps them clean and free frol
- lice; they have god pasture durln
; the spring and summer and al
! always near good clear spring waite
20 He develops his pigs on wheat bra
- Corn, he says, is without an eQu'
- for finishing and fattening hogs b'
- lit is a failure for growing ther
- Most of his pigs come in DecemDe
81 January, February and March and
always cleans up, that is he new
- carries a hog more than tWel'
- months and very seldom carries the
90 that long. A hog is not profltab
49, for the packing house after yes
ho says Mr.. Farmer.
= Mr.. Farmers home Is splendid
ho located for the raising OF hogs
~ lis a lovely place set within t
- eternal hills Northwest of Culleol
49, A trip over it on an ideal Novemb
day with a genuine Indian SUNNI
yo. sun shining and just enough crls
ror ness in the atmosphere to give o
not life and energy, is real treat. u
whole place shows the care and
Ids tentlon Oh ohe VIM Ao'o'
,s+ to whom farming is business to
on operated on business principles,
,os more than that, for farming Is me
-. than a business, it is a home.
the man who loves nature and b
energy it appeals as nothing else
life can.
Mr.. Farmers porkers are sold
December delivery at eight cen
TX They will average him $25 per ne
and in spite of the high cost OF fe