Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-12-25
INVESTIGATION ON
SOUTHERN FARMS
More Money Spent for Pork Than
for Religion and Education.
FACTORIES OF GREAT NEED
Hogs Are Essential to Manufacture
Cheap Leeuminous Crops That We
Must Grow to Increase Pro-
duetiveness of Our Soils.
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We spend more money for pork
than we do for education and religion.
We send millions of dollars to the
north and west for pork and pork
productions. We are paying 10 cents
a 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
pound.
We urge capitalists to build fac
tories and encourage the building OF
factories by exempting them from tax
alton for a period of years. We ex-
empt factories from taxation, and at
the same time send money out to pay
for pork manufactured elsewhere. We
certainly need factories of all kinds
in all towns and cities, and especially
do we need hogs to manufacture the
cheap leguminous crops that we must
grow to increase the productiveness
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. 1t is 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 a farm where good pastures can
be had and corn produced in abun-
dance. the hog will be found to be
sure profit producer one year with an
other. Good pastures, peanuts, peas
in corn, potatoes, chufas, rape, sor-
ghum and peas and corn means plenty
of cheap pork.
The first investment is small and
he is 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 is ready for market
almost any time and will bring the top
price if fat. He multiplies rapidly,
and if we only give him good pastures,
pure water and a little corn. He 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
ed 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 at 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 a sensible reason for
growing cotton to pay for bacon and
lard instead of growing cheap legumin-
GUS crops to raise hogs. No man has
ever been able to give sensible rea-
son for feeding corn from weaving
time to killing time instead of raising
hogs on pasture grasses and cheap