The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-04-08
MAKE HOG
RAISING PAY
To Make hog Raising Profitable
the Hogs Must ThreSh Their
Own Feed.

/ While ON a general tour OF the
great farming districts OF southern
Idaho with the college extension
workers ! Was impressed with the
figures which were displayed 70 dem.
onstrate that farmers were all losing
money BY raising and feeding hogs
for market. TherewaS not one farm
e. at the meetings VINO could show a
balance sheet with credit for that
traneh OF his farming.
The high price Of grain and the
low price uf pork seem TO have made
II impossible for the farmers Of that
section to make any profit on hogs.
The figures given at these meetings
will apply To Lemhi county with
equal force. IL is an impossibility. to
produce pork for six cents q pound by
feeding grain that is worth more
than dollar bushel. These facts
have been very foreibly demonstrated
by hundreds Of experiments at state
and federal stations.
| The losses reported in the southern
part Of the state we're sustained
when wheat was worth only % cents
bushel. lind many farmers In
Lemhi county are feeding wheat TO
hogs that is worth three cents a
pound. 1t will cost more than ten
cents 10 produce pound Of pork
/ with three.cent wheat. The cost OF
oats or barley pork is more than Of
wheat-mAde pork at the prevailing
| prices. The man who Is stocking his
hogs through the winter on short
feed has business proposition on his
hands that will bring loss for every
day be continues that method The
man who has large stock OF hogs AT
this time Of the year should accept a
loss and realize OH his hogs as early
as possible. Every pound he can add
TO the weight %. his hogs viii cost
him ten cents, .but by feeding q hun.
dred. pound hog a hundred pounds Of
wheat in 20 days the hog can be sold.
The farmer will lose on the added
weight but he will realize on his
present weight. Whenever the hogs
can be sold, by weight, they should
not be held another day, when wheat
is worth three censt pound.
Farmers should have a system In
hog raising that will insure sure
profits. IL is not probable that grain
will he cheap again In the near fut.
uIe. The method to meet fhis.con-
dition, and make hog raising profit
able, must not include ths feeding Of
threshed grain. The hog must har.
vest his own feed II lie Is TO bring
any profit TO the farmer Pork can
he produced at cost Of not 10 exceed
three cents 4 pound whenever the
Lemhi farmer will practice the cor
rect system. Every acre Of good land
in the Lemhi valley can be made TO
produce I,0OO.pounds OF pork At a cost
of, not TO exceed, " % an acre in
eludinR labor, seed, interest and
taxes.
A pound OF weight may be added
to hog Of any size for three cents II
all the surrounding conditions are
! favorable Garden peas not field
peas OF the dwarf varieties make the
best feed for hogs in this valley
These peas remain in good condition
for hog feed in the field from August
till May one acre will produce l.
900 pounds Of pork during auy part
OF that long feeding season. A single
brood soS worth fifteen dollars with
a litter Of eight August pigs without
a bite Of any other feed produced
2l5O pounds OF pork from two acres
Of peas in the following March
Ii is 40 easy matter to huy hogs
and add weight to them at two cents
pound by turning them In the pea
field The raising Of the pigs is an
other problem. believe no hogs
should ne carried through the late
winter and spring except the breed.
ing stock The system should be
one that includes no exclusive pas.
ture feeding The pig should siSays
be fat enough for slaughter. t.
meet this condition try 70 have peas
for the pigs from the time they are
six weeks ol1. al least. There Ia 10
harvest expense 90 add 20 the peas
for hog feed. They are better 10
Nay after tie exposures to the win
ter SHOWS aud spring rains than in
te fail.