The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-05-03
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We know a farmer who pursues the
plan each year OF buying In the spring
or early winter, enough shOtes to make
a couple OF cars Of fat hogs IN Septem.
Der. At the beginning Of February
this year he had l4s head. This man
Is what you would call a wheat
farmer. He has several hundred acres
IN wheat each year and only fifty 10
sixty acres In feed crops. But the
fact Of interest at this time Ia that
during the month Of February these
hogs ran on wheat pasture, which
was good, and received a grain ration
Of only two bushels Of corn n day.
The shotes, which averaged about lUO
pounds, were weighed on the LIST OF
February and then again on the LIST
Of March and they showed to have
made a gain Of twenty pounds each
ON wheat pasture and less than Il
pound VI grain a day for each hog. 1t
should be said that February vas Il
very favorable month this year, more
80 than usual. But 1t should also be
said that these shOtes we're mostly
dry lot raised and that they all had
to be treated for worms and lice after
being collected ON this farm. Practi
cally all Of them proved to be wOrmy
and all were lousy, showing the con
dition In which the average dry-lOt
hog IL raised. This bunch had their
going over before February l.. So
they we're In fairly healthy condition
when this test was made on them. Inc
corr fed to these shOtes WAS bought
and It cost eighty-three cents per
bushel.
Now let's see how he anne out for
the month OF February. We will call
the month thirty days, as II seems to
have been about that long between
weighings. Two bushels a day would
make sixty busbelA At eighty-three
, cents per bushel would be $3.50 for
! corn. A gain OF twenty pounds each
on 149 head, makes a total OF 1890
pounds. Rating this gain at six cents
Il pound, the price at the local mar
ket, we would have a gross income OF
S17T.60. Deduct from this the price OF
the corn, S4g.S0, and we have for the
wheat pasture and the labor $01.B y
Or to state II another way, with the
aid OF that wheat pasture the corr
was made to bring In a value VI Sllt
per bushel. Now Just how long this
can be maintained no one knows, but
that is the record for the month Of
February. The plan is to carry thes'
shotes this way until a crop OF corr
or milo Ia ready TO hog down. They
are then turned In, and In from thirtJ
to fifty days are ready for market
usually catching the highest price mar
ket OF the year.
Every farmer OF course can not d,
this way, for there would not b.
enough dry.lot hogs to 20 around
some one has to raise these hogs, us
uslly at q loss, But there In this on
portunity In every community, ant
some folks should fiji to take care o
them instead Of allowing them to b.
shipped out In an unfinished COndl
ton, which serves only to make IN
price Of fat hogs a little lower.
OF course this II the other fellow
story but | am prepared to belley
every word OF It from the eIperienc
we have with our brood sows. The
have run the winter long without bs
Ing fed any grain at all except, pei
haps, on eight or ten different day
when the weather was 30 cold the
! would not 90 out to graEe. They hay
had the run OF a wheat pasture and
I good clean and warm place to slee
? and were not allowed 10 associat
! with the rest Of the hogs on the farm
They gained in weight, actually gC
fat, and are now bringing litters q
strong as any we have ever had. VIII
we are fixed TO care for them a n
! tie better than before, II seems this
we are saving a bigger per cent
them than common.
We gased pitytngly on the listle'