The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-05
HOGS AND SHEEP
MAIN TOPIC At
LOGAN ROUNDUP
c. w. Lindsay of Ogden De.
livers an Address on
Profits in Swine.
IMPORTANCE OF FEED
ALSO is DISCOVERED
]. r. Murdock of Heber City
Gives Dissertation on
Sheep Industry.
By Staff Correspondent.

By Staff Correspondent.
LOGAN, Feb. 4.-Hogs and sheep
| were the topics of discussion at the
roundup today, The morning session
was devoted to swine and the afternoon
TO sheep, with the exception of a talk
on farm roads by William Peterson,
| member of the state road commission
| for this district.
Professor John T. Cainc, III, of the
college staff. opened the morning meet
| ing with a talk on the Management
! of Herd of Swine. - Professor Gaines
talk was followed by the usual open
| discussion and the wide interest and
participation Indicated that there were
| 200 to 800 hog raiscrs present.
owe cni the hog dirty" said Pro
fessor Game "a hog is Just as dirty
as the man who keeps him, The hog is
the cleanest domestic animal we have,
If you will only give him a chance. -
Professor Game then went on to in
struct the farmers in the proper man
| agement of hogs, urging above all that
| the animals be given plenty of exercise
and that their growth he forced from
| birth. He said that the cheapest flesh
| could be produced in the first few
months of the hog IS life, Just as Gov.
| crnor Ammons had said about cattle,
and he said that later pound of flesh
| often costs more than it could be sold
1 = ~. A.
centrated foods, mentioning shorts,
| barley, wheat, corn and field peas as
| among the best.
Profit Is Discussed.
c. W. Lindsay of Ogden, who raises
from 1000 to 1000 hogs year, and
who is considered one of the most sue
| cessful men i'll his line In the state,
followed with talk on ''Protits in
Hogs
"We are still asleep 10 the hog rails
ing possibilities in Utah, - declared Mr..
Lindsay In opening his address. 1.-The
world does not produce finer set of
feeds for them than we can grow here.
Wheat. barley, peas, alfalfa and roots
constitute feed rations that cannot be
excelled for the production of pig meat.
Yet we have been content to sell our
grain for a cent pound and beg for
market for our alfalfa, when hogs can
convert Them into choice pork that can
be cashed every day in the year.
Continuing, Mr.. Lindsay said in part:
1t has been demonstrated time and
again that one 'bushcl of wheat will
prDlnrp twelve mounds OF DOrk AT
this years price of pork and wheat.
farmer should realize Sl.25 per
bushel for his wheat by feeding It
to hogs, instead of selling it ON the
market for 60 cents bushel Expert
ment shows there are from 500 TO
700 pounds of hog growth on an acre
OF alfalfa Figuring four tons 10 the
acre. at So per ton, the alfalfa would
bring s24 per acre. while 600 pounds
or pork is worth $4S.
Figures on Imports.
There is a market for large hog
production. The whole state of Utah,
markets only 10000 or 1900 hogs per
year. During 1913 Utah Imported $s;,,
have the feeds. We have the mar
kets Then why not have the hogs?
The hog that makes you the big
gest gain in the shortest time Is tho
one 10 raise. The mode OF raising
and fattening the hog determines
choice pork bs or s,asTsS nfefSr Either psfs bs
over or underfeedinS. neither by ex-
posure or unsanitary conditions. A
hog can lose you money by improper
feeding about as quickly as a fake
mining investment.
The speaker then went on to instruct
the hog rasers In the methods which he
had found successful on his farm and
concluded that under proper manage
ment there were attractive profits In the
hog business. especially now that hogs
can be permanently immunized against
cholera at small expense.
The matter OF "TIog Cholera and It's
Control was then taken up by DIR. III.
]. Frederick. tho college veterinarian. He
explained In detail the latest methods OF
preventing this enemy OF the hog pro.
ducer and showed how the danger OF II
could be almost entirely eliminated by
proper practices and scientific methods.
The first speaker OF the afternoon,
opening the discussion OF the sheep In
dustry. was j. r. Murdock Of Heber CITY.
Mr.. Murdock gave some interesting fig
ures on the cost OF producing mutton
Ia lion TO the charge that the profits or
the sheepmen havo been. abnormaliy
large He declared that II the people
of the United States wanted mutton and
wool at fair prices they must give the
industry every legitimate protection.
Ideal Mutton State.
MIR Murdock said In part:
10 my mind Utah is one OF the
most ideal states for the production
OF mutton. The great deserts along
the western side of the state. includ-
Ing those the east and more par
ticularly the southeast part OF the
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