The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-03-30


of that 100000 and though / am now
two years older | feel two years
younger than | did in 1914 with 250
acres in tomatoes, melons, canta-
loupes and beans.
The past year | had 40 acres i'll pea
nuts from which T gathered over 1900
bushels, and sold them all at $3.50 the
bushel then fattened &c head of hogs
on this same 40 acres and sold them
at eight and half cents the pound,
they averaging 244 pounds, brought
me $20.74 each, or $136S.S4 for &c
head, so this forty acres beat $50
acres in 1914, and did it with hogs,
still have another car of hogs to ship
and as the price has advanced to al
most double when l sold my other car,
think l am right in saying the hog
crop is the most profitable In Marion
county.
| now have over 20 head of hogs on
my farm, and every acre | plant is for
hog feed, as l try to have good pas
turage every day in the year. re
Gently planted 4 acres to millet sOr-
CHAM and peas which will carry my
hogs during the hot summer months.
| will plant another "A acres to peas
about the middle of April, and now
have up so acres of the 100 day beam
and am planting 100 acres in peanuts.
so of which l now have up and grow
ing, and can turn hogs on this acre
age in September so with the peas,
millet, sorgham, and 10 day velvet
go on the peanuts in September.
also have IS acres planted to early
dent corn, which natures by first of
June, thus giving me good balanced
ration, which keeps them in a healthy
growing condition practically the
entire year, so you will see | am only
trying to raise hogs, as every crop
planted is put into hog feed, and my
hog crop is my money crop, and with
no disaster, and a packing plant
located in Ocala, or at my very door,
| hope to make a still better showing
in 1917 than I did in 1916.
The greatest drawback to the hog
business, is the fence proposition,
and until there is no fence law pass
ed for Marion county, the hog in
dustry can never be fully developed.
understand the state appropriates
100000 annually for hog cholera
serum. All of which / consider a
complete loss. for with the woods
filed with poor starving, worthless,
NANCY and diseased hogs. the aver
age weight of each being about eighty
five pounds at year old, we can
not fight disease with several times
ten thousand dollars, and there should
be law passed by the coming legis-
lautre forbidding the roaming at large
of swine, even If it cannot become
state law, it could be made local op-
ton by counties, and | want to here
warn Crosby and Light if they do not
pass some measure requiring all part
les to keep their hogs enclosed, and
prevent their roaming at large, will
most certainly run against them both
two years hence, on the straighout
no fence law. and if | am defeated,
will continue to run every two years
until elected, and in the event l am
never elected l will just keep running,
until my boy who is now four years
old attains his majority, and will then
have him enter the race on the no
fence issue.
II Crosby and Light haven't the
nerve to tackle the no fence, then let
them compromise and introduce a
measure to establish three barbs as
a legal fence, this will then rid the
country of all these starved worth
less NANCY razorbacks, and save the
souls of all who are trying to raise
good stock from pergatory, as this
razorback annoyance will damn any
mans soul. | have sent TO Indiana
Ohio and Virginia, and purchased fine
bloOded hogs, of very best blood lines,
only to have them ruined by cross
breeding with some worthless NANCY
razorback. that can slide through any
wire fence made, as no plant has yet
been erected that could weld a wire
sufficiently close to turn one Of these
/ worthless razorbacks.
1t is for this reason that Moultrie
and all southwest Georgia has profit
ed from their packing plant, as they
have only good blooded stock, with
a no fence law. the farmers raising
only good stock. every man keeping
his own stock enclosed, as it cost
no more to raise good hogs to weigh