Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-23
HOGS STILL TURN
IN GOOD PROFITS
High Cost of Feed No Reason
Why Raising PorkerS
Does Not Pay.
0KLAHOMANS WISE AT GAME
Nearly Every Farmer in State
Has Small or Large Herd
This Year.
OkLAHOMANS WISE AT GAME

Special TO The World.
ADA, Okla, Dec. 22.--'T have nol
hogs and don't intend to have any as
long as feed stays as high as 1t is
nov" remarked a tenant farmer Wno
lives a few miles cast of Ada. The
farmer figures that with peanuts sell
ing at $50 and sl,7) a bushel and
corn as high that he cannot make a
profit off hogs even when the price
OF pork Is 50 high that few people
can eatit. But this is not the opin-
ion of many farmers i'll tnis county,
j. +. Hill, county fam demonstrator,
says, and dozens of successful breed
ers can give accurate figures TO prove
that the tenant farmer is wrong in
his calculations.
Many of the breeders say money
cannot be made off hogs if they are
fed corn and peanuts and potatncs in
the pens. The hogs must do most OF
the gathering themselves. There is
a decided difference IN $3.50 for pea
nuts after they have been gathered
threshed and ready for the market
and peanuts still in the field hnshel
of peanuts worth $50 after it j.,
ready for market is not worth more
than about half that much in the
field, if we consider the price of labor.
At least. that is the way the breeders
and hog enthusiasts figure il.
Beats 3O-Ccnt Cotton.
s l.. Robertson of Ahlo5D SAYS that
he can make more off hogs, even with
the high priced feed, than he can with
30-Ccnt cotton. Mr.. Robertson is a
tenant farmer from choice and has
made money on hogs whcn they were
low and when they were high in price.
But he does not feed but little straight
corn and peanuts. lie uses alfalfa,
peanuts and other field crops. Il ca"
make more money IN hogs now than
any regular crops. II can. under
stand how any man can figure they
are "A losing game, f he feeds care
fuly and breeds with any degree ot
carefulness
Sam B. Mayfield Of Stoncwall con-
siders hogs profitable at this time.
II have kept an accurate set of Cooits
since the first of the year. Mr.. fly'
barger explains. Il have already
cleared more than $500 on the game
and before the close Of this year
think | shall have tlearcd more than
$1,000, as / have several head abOu;
ready for market now. This is clear
of all expense, such as rent on the
land. labor feed AMI every other cS-
pense connected with the hogs"
ID. G. Hybarger OF Maxwell says he
has sold $500 worth of pigs from one
registered SOW since the first OF the
year, and the SOW has not been at
more than nominal expense.
All Raising Hogs.
Every sale of hogs in this county
or the surrounding counties has been
well attended by pohtotoc county
farmers this fall. an'i almost all of
them are beginning 10 breed. ono
of the bankers in Ada said that about
half of his customers from the rural
sectors have been raising hogs here
tofore but almost every one Of them is
getting ready to enter the game.
"The high cost of 1ee1 in the early
fall" j. B. Hill, county agent says,
caused many farmers To believe they
could not make money on the hogs.
But as winter advances :nd they buy
n few pieces of meat, they see that
not only is there money In hogs but
big money | was discouraged over
the outlook last fall and thot our hog
industry was to suffer tadly Now
the outlook is the best ever knew.
believe two or three thousand more
hogs could be sold here If they were
brought in. There are not really
enough in the county to meet the de-
mand. 1t has been the means of
bringing many farmers cut of debt,
and it will be the means Of building
up modest fortunes in this county