The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-31
new INDUSTRY
IN JACKSON co.
r., L.. Miller OF Mayetta Guilt
Yates Razor Back Hogs.
Imports Them From the Ozarks
by the Hundreds.
TURNED into BIG PASTURE
They Thrive and Fatten and
Bring Big Returns.
Has Accommodations for $500
at One Time.
Razorbacks. Range and Rape!

Razorbacks. Range and Rapei
These are the three RS of which R.
l.. Miller of Mayetta makes use as a
pastime, underscore that pastlme
pIease. for his real business is running
a bank, a lumber yard, general mer-
chandise store and an elevator in May
eta. The farming and raZorbacks are
merely a side line.
Twenty-eight hundred hogs on $500
acres. roofing up the rape and am
bling in the alfalfa, such is the scene
that greets the eye of the visitor to
the Miller ranch which is probably
SNe only one of it's kind in Kansas.
1t is located just out OF Mayetta' IN
jackson county on the border or the
indian reservation and it is teemlng
with human interest as well as "hog
interest.
MT. Miller has scouts down in the
Ozarks buying this racing type OF hogs
for him all the time. Pigs about one
year old are purchased ana every rev
hogs IS unloaded at Mayetta ana driven
TO the ranch where they are turned on
an ideal range of rape, alfalfa and blue
grass and stuffed with corn and shorts
until they are not unlike an ordinary
Kansas porker in appearance
The best part of this little undertake
ing of Mr.. Miller's is that 1t IS not haru
work and it is a paying proposltion;
Ter home last spring says that the fea-
ture of the ranch is the smoke mouse.
MI Miller let Mr.. Voiland take peep
into the smoke house and Say, sald
the Topeka man, those hams and tnat
bacon smelled like, oh, they smelled
like supper time on the farm-they
smeiled better than the hams father
used to cure and they made me want
'em and want 'em right away.
A Flavor All Its Own.
IA a
that is second to none in the world
and according to Mr.. Miller 1t taxes
no more feed to get one OF tneSe sim
choats ready to kill than Poland Chi
ma or a Berkshire, that is, II he mas
room to exercise and he surely has
the room on this range
These pigs are smart too: They nave
to be in order to survive IN the state
from which they come, and one pig
was seen by a party of visitors frater-
nizins with the family cat. The cat
struck at the pig and the pig, whlcn
the visitors declared was sitting on its
snapped like a dog at the cat. After
their little dispute was ended the cat
rubbed up against the porker, the
porker slipped to the ground and soon
both were fast asleep.
Mr.. Miller has been fattening razor
backs for the last two or three years
and the business has passed the expert
mental stage with him. $500 razor
backs in the last year were 1atteneQ
and marketed.
AS soon as the hogs reach the ranch
they are given the serum treatment
which makes them immune from chOl-
era so there has not been one dollar
lost from this disease which is the
dread of the Kansas hog fattener.
When you visit Mayetta take a hike
out to the Miller farm. You will see
fat razorbacIxs, slim razorbacks, poor
razor backs and razorbacks that are
more than poor. They are so thin dur
ing the first few weeks of Kansas life
that the hands have to hunt for them
on the neighbors' farms after a wind
storm. Kansas corn and alfalfa soon
give them weight, however, and it is
not q great time they have to spend
in this pig heaven for they are soon
ready for market.