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Chipley, Fla. May 20, 1918.
Pensacola To,roa1.

Journal on hog raising in Tennessee,
wish to say that can go Mr.. Mack
one better and the scene is right here /
on our West Florida farm.
A year ago last january, we re-
| ceived latter months Of diligenr /
searching for the best stock to be |
| had) a registered Berkshire gilt of the /
large-boned, straight-nosed type.
In February, she brought a litter |
/ Of six fine pigs and ten more in No |
vember, and up to date we have sold |
pigs of different ages to the amount |
of s25S.5o, put, up $3.50 worth OF
/ meat and have the SOW and two OF
/ her last litter on hand and gilt from
/ her first litter and four of her pigs,
| which, at the rate they are selling at |
makes the income from this one SOW
! amount to $423.50, in 1 8 months time
and we still have the SOW, besides
this.
We expect another litter from her
In few lays and have advance or
ders for several of those.
But we are not Dragging about 1t,
We have merely done what any other
| West Florida farmer can DO IL he will
but use his brains and energy and
the right stock and feed. And right
here I want to say that it doesn't
take one half the brains and not one
tenth the energy to raise the best
purebreds as is required to raise the
same weight In scrubs. I say this
knowingly, for I have had wide ex-
perience In the past few years, as
wide as the farm and more, with the
scrubs, for there Is not a fence in the
county that will turn one, when once
he makes ZIP his mind that there is
something that isn't for him on the
other side, and am confident that It
takes ten times the brain energy to
raise litter of razorbacks than it
does the full bloods, and we have alb
solutely no trouble in keeping the
pure-breds il the same lots and fields
that the scrubs went where they
pleased in.
I said If enc has the right stock
/ and feed. This means registered
stock and a balanced ration. It costs
no more to raise a registered animal
than one that isn't and with a little
management and advertising it will
bring from two to five times as much
as one that cannot be registered.
Last season, we had both the pure
breds and half-b1oods and fed a SOW
and six pigs from each lot, the pure
bred SOW weighing around 500 pounds
and the other sow about 125 pounds,
pigs the same age and we found it
took more than twice the feed to
keep the half- bloods barely alive than
was required TO keep the others in the
pink of condition and at the Md of
months the pure-bred pigs had made
three times the gain that the grades
had made. They had damaged moth
ing, while che scrubs had ruined
more good Fencing than they were
worth, and more crops and we sold
four of the pure-breds for more than
we got out of IS of the scrubs.
We got rid of the grades as quickly
as possible and resolved to never
again own 4 scrub hog, and we meant
to carry it out to the letter, but re-
J Gently we got fooled. We were need
ing a change in blood lines and so
ordered a pig from highly advertis-
/ ed breeder in Virginia, paying $50 for
it, and when it came we were the
/ worst disappointed set you ever saw.
Many of the half bloods we had
sold for anything we could get were
! a credit TO the side of him and we
actually offered to our neighbors for
, SO, but nobody wanted him even at
that price, and so we are making
/ meat of nirn-.
His record shows that he is a
month older than our own pigs that
{ weighed twice as much as he did and
were full six inches longer at that
, time.
So we are convinced without a
doubt that it pays to get teh best
there is when it comes to buying
stock, and when one has one to sell
he can get something for it.
And right here, I want to give a
little experience with purebred cat
tie, as the same rules hold good in
: raising them end other livestock as
with hogs. Conditions here at pres
: ent are about equally favorable for
dairying and the raising of beef cat
; tie, so we decided on a. dairy breed
with large frame, so that when it
| became necessary to dispose of an
have something of account as beef
also, and as the Holsteins hold the
majority of the world records for
: both milk and butter production, we
decided there must be good grounds
for it and so selected this breed. And
we had a natural liking for this the
most beautiful of all cattle.
1 Not being able to follow our in
j., clinations and buy a whole herd to
start with, we bought the best male
calf that our money could buy. He
cost as good round price, but we
t have never regretted it for the results
we are getting are indeed most graf
S flying.
This calf weighed 400 pounds
: when he arrived at Z no onths old,
and is the admiration of all who sec
him. Living in town at that time
and with 40 pasture to turn him on
we could hot give him the best of
D care as we were afraid to risk send
ing him to the farm for careless hired
; help to loog after, and so turned him
c In q small lot and gave him: the same
feed and care for the first year as
G we We're giving an IS months old
grade Jersey heifer.
We had not weighed the heifer but
. comparing her with this calf we
Judged her to wigh 500 pounds at the
= beginning Of the test and she was as
good an animal as we could find
S about here, and had had good care
from the very start, and was in per-
z feet condition to begin with.
We were then feeding her IL
pounds of shorts twice daily and
+ what Kudzu hay she would clean up
well and we gave him the same ra-
S ton. At the end of a year we had
increased the grain feed to IL
pounds at feed for each Of them,
1 ana the results were so noticeable
= that there was no mistaking the diff
4 ference in favor of the pure bIooded
calf. He weighed 1900 pounds, a
= gain of 500 pounds. while the heifer
had prafnnS h.,4 H.