The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-26
RANCHERS CAN BUY
Pure BRED SWINE
Surplus Breeding Stock Offered
For Sale BY College OF Hawaii

The College of Hawaii laid the founda
ton of work that is going to help solve
the meat problem when it purchased
the best types of two standard breeds
Of hogs that could be found in Cali
tornia. The herd has grown and pros
pered amazingly. The last legislature
appropriated money for o new concrete
piggery and the College now has as
hne a building equipment and as good
q herd of registered and pure bred hogs
as any agricultural college west of the
Rockies.
AT the head of the Berkshire colony
Is the boar Prince Gailliard. He is
one OF the finest examples of n. II.
Gentry $ strain of pure breds.
The Berkshire hog is the best gen.
eral purpose hog in existence and is
displaying the Poland China all over
the United States. The advantage of
the Berkshire hog is that it is good
breeder, while the Poland China seems
to have run out. At the College farm
the Berkshire littcrs have never been
less than nine and the young pigs are
strong and active. This strain are
"good feeders and make very rapid
gain in weight. The only disadvantage
of this breed in Hawaii is that il is
q black hog and more affected by heat
than the red or white breeds.
Great Bacon Hogs
The second frccd kept at the College
farm is the Tamworth. This is a long
legged rcd hog which is not affected
by heat. THO Tamw0rth is an English
breed Of the ham and bacon type which
IS rapidly gaining in popularity in the
United States. This type is good
feeder and good rustler, more of a
pasture than a pen hog but with good
feed, its growth is even more rapid
than that of the black lard hogs. At
the College farm the TamwOrth sows
have had big litters, averaging ten to
thirteen and the young pigs are strong
and thy. "Stcamboat, great
boar about the size Of the Mauna Kca,
is at the head of the College of Ha-
waii herd.
The herd is increasing so rapid
ly that the College has not enough
room for all it's fine stock and so the
department Mt of animal husbandry is 90
ing to offer eleven young pure bred
s0ws and boars at pul lie auction Sat
urday morning December 4. An up
set price equal to the California prices
of sim lar Eloodrd stock will be fix vt
for each animal and they VIII be sold
TO tn" HIGHEST bidder.
WIT VII r" Sc d
The list of BerkShircs comm ives, one
$25 boar, 3 months o'd sired hy the
grand champion of 1913 Missouri live.
stock show One 50 boar, Q months
Old, sired by PrIc" GaiIliard Two
sOws. . mouths Cd, sired by Prince
GaiIjard, ut 40 and 80.
OF tn" 7; mHOrths the Off rings will
br two oars and two SOwS month
"ld sir Il Wv Steamboat, $l5 each One
sow. out of Steamboat. year OF, $35;
one SOW; IL months old. Mt 49,; and
~" 90 months Old, registered SOW, at
$40.
Oh nre IN Prar ti3e
The former practise in $40 ling Of
surplus animals from tho College herds
has been to enter lists of applicants
and give the refusal to the fist ap
plirant. This method makes good
deal Of work and correspondence and
has not been wholly satisfactory
Hereafter the surplus animals will he
auctioned off after due notice has been
given so that ranchcrs and farmers
who want fine pigs or fine dairy ami
mails can come and look over the stock
and then hay" an equal chance to TT
what they wnnt csle G.. Clark. pro-
fest or of animal hnshandry at the COL
l"ge of Hawaii will be glad to shuw
the stock to visitors at any time