Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-05-31

prepared especially for Grant Coun-
ty Herald by the Wisconsin Live
Stock Breeders Association.)
We have set out to tell you boys
how to make money raising pigs
more money than most pig raisers are
making to-day. If you just look
around a little and then think about
this matter, you will begin to see that
too many farmers are not raising their
pigs right. They might be making
bigger profits than they are. Too
many pigs are raised on the waste
products of the farm and are not CIV
en- enough food fattening feeds. To
be sure the pig is valuable for turn
ing waste products into money, and
the feeder who does not make use of
his pigs for that purpose is making
a big mistake, but they must be fed
something else also in order to pay
the best. Many farmers are making
their pigs pay them big profits. They
study the business and practice good
feeding methods.
Pigs Good Stock for Beginners.
MI uIuug ears dSO q DOy IL LnC
northern part of Wisconsin started to
raise Poland China pigs. He wanted
to be a farmer and raise livestock. He
hoped some day to be a great breeder
Of Guernsey cattle, but he had to
raise something else first that would
make money with which to buy good
cows. His father had some common
Poland China sOws on the farm which
had been raising good litters of pigs
each year, and so he said to himself,
81 believe l can make money rails
ing pigs. They produce rapidly, the
young grow fat, and there is usually
a good market. I am going to get
good pure bred Poland China boar
and go into the pig business"
With him to think was to act, and
now he is raising pigs on a big scale.
He sells a load of fat hogs every
week or two; he sells many of his
good animals for big prices for breed
ing purposes; he shows and takes
prizes at the nearby county fairs and
at the State fair He thought there was
money in pigs and he has found out
that there is. The more he did for
those pigs, he says, the more they did
for him, and he has spared no pains
in giving them the best that pigs de-
serve.
Pigs Gave Him Start.
To-day this young man is an i'm
portant breeder of pure bred Percher-
on horses and Guernsey cattle, as we'll
IS one of the states most successful
pig raisers, and he gives the pigs the
big share of the credit for his sue
cess. What he has done other boys
can do If they only take the interest
in the work that he has. -
Must Study Business to Win.
You ask how this breeder was so
successful with pigs? Well, boys,
there are many things he does that
other men fail to do-and they are
just the things that have decided
that he should make profit and other
farmers should barely pay expenses.
In the first place he has used good
Judgment in choosing the cheapest as
we'll as the most productive feeds;
he is a good Judge of hogs and care
fully selects his breeding stock so
that he can raise pigs that will grow
to a good size in the shortest time;
he has been quick to put into use
new methods, such as the feeding of
forage crops, the use of self-feeders,
and the hOgging down OF corn; then
he has done his feeding carefully so
as to keep his pigs growing, but not
wasting the feed; he studies the
markets and aims to have his pigs
ready at the time OF the year that the
prices are best; he controls his breed
ing operations so that his pigs are
born at the proper time to fatten for
this me vket; and last of all he has
always tried to raise better pigs than
other breeders so that he could sell
some of his best stock at good prices
for breeding purposes.