The farmer and mechanic., 1914-08-18
INCREASED INTEREST ALL OVER
THE STATE IN MAKING MEAT
European War Brings This Fact Out-Stock Both Of Hogs
and Cattle Being Improved = Industry One Ihat
Will Crow
(By BiOn HI. Buticr.)


baccO crop and those essential things.
finally veered t. the aftermath of
those things that are left after the |
war is disposed OF, and some OF the
farmers OF the club expressed satisfac- |
tion IN the fact that in the hog lot are |
hams and bacon TO pull the household |
through the long cold winter, no mat |
ter what happens to the cotton crop
" Germany and Great Britain should
find their mills cut out Of job AS
the discussion became general it was
interesting to observe the number of
men who have a sizable bunch Of hogs
out on the farmm. and to hear of the
care they are taking to have the va
riety a good one. Hoke county is
becoming hog raising section faster
than the people realize. and il is be-
coming a corn county faster than the
people realize.
Make Chisholm headed off the rest
Cf the gang long enough to remark
that while his old ground corn was
not doing the best in the world, the
corn on the 120-acre new ground lis
hittin' her right along now" and his
idea of farming is to always make
little more corn than | want this
year, then I have some for next year if
next year isn't good one
If this was an isolated case l would
not pay much attention to it. but all
through the county you notice punches
OF round and chunky BeTkshires,
some Red Jerseys, some Chester
Whites. some Poland ChinaS, and
some Of them are bred right close to
the royalty The razor back is still
plenty enough, but he is on the list
of declining per cen ages, like the
Pittsburg baseball team.
The PinchurSt Example.
Then comes to mind the fact that
over at Pinehurst "A big shipment of
Berkshires was sent out to an Illinois
breeder who came to North Carolina
and bought the Pinehurst stock be-
cause il appeared to be the best avail
able breeding stock the buyer could
find. Mind he was after breeding
stock. not meat, and he came to
North Carolina to get the best he
could find. Pinehust Berkshires have
been making a name for themselves
for some years. To make name
that brings a discriminating buyer
from Illinois is all the credentials
necessary for Illinois is the home Of
hog royalty in this country. Any
thing that goes to that State for
breeding stock has to be gilt-edged.
From Dan. II. Gray, chief of the di-
vision Of animal industry, at the eX-
pertinent station at Raleigh, comes
the report of an experiment in hog
feeding over at Tarboro. G. A. Ho1-
derness is a peanut man in Edge,
Combe. He went over into East Ten
nessee last fall and bought two cal
loads of shoats. He paid for then
ID cents a pound at Morristown
and when the two hundred and fift!
shoats were at the farm in Edge
combe county they stood him just ;
slight fraction under ten cents
pound live weight. He inoculate'
the pigs with cholera serum, am
that brought the cost above ten cent
pound.
Mr.. Holderness turned these pig
on peanuts after the crops had bee
taken from the fields, and on tn
waste that was left after the crop
had been harvested the pigs fed frOT
the first week in October to the mid
die of December. In that time tn
bunch had gained on nothing bu
the waste in the peanut fields owe
ten tons.
Fattcn Hogs on Peanut Waste.
L. w. Shook, assistant in the Stat
animal industry division. says that
great many farmers of the peant
belt of the State could easily fatten
Car load of hogs on the peanuts le
in the field after harvesting. M
Shook says that in other sections
the State pork may be made in II
same way in fields where COW pea
SOY beans, and other crops have bee
made.
After the pigs at the Holderne
farm had been seventy-twO days
the peanut fields, where they made {
average gain of 83 pounds, they we
shut up and fed for twenty da
on corn and other grain to finish thel
and in tnat time they gained over
pound and a half a day.
Mr.. Holderness fed his pigs thr
months and a week, or about 100 day
They gained in weight just about
pound day, and when he sent the
to Richmond sixty three of them SO
for from eleven to twelve and a h:
cents a pound. The others sold (
eight and a half cents, or the pri
paid for them at Morristown, Tenn
After figuring market price
everything fed the hogs except
waste they gathered in the pean
fields Mr.. Holderness received for
pigs at Richmond market $S43
more than they cost him. Or he c
figure that he sold his waste in I
peanut fields for that amount
rnonAv and that he received ma RI