Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1917-02-10
WELL FED WELL BRED
HOGSPAY MORE THAN
IULE RIOTERS

On January 80 tn the price OF pork
at Keno was = IL cents per pound
On tne same date the prices at tile fol-
towing points we're: san francisco
lUc; Portland, lU 3-4 cents; Ogden
lO cents, and Chicago, III IL cents
Al the last two naEled markets the
hogs are led and watered after being
uEioaGed at the stock yards or PACK
.ng house. The Reno and Pacint
coast quotations are for hogs weighed
OFT the cars without feed or water.
This wide difference in the price
OF porN III favor of the eastern over
the home market makes the Nevada
SWINE raiser a dissatisfied producer
but there are certain conditions ano
factors concerning the growing anu
marketing of pork in Nevada tha
makes the price lower than other mar
kets.
The price of Nevada pork will re
main lower until these factors arc
changed or eliminated.
|. The average dressing percentag.
Of the Nevada hog is 68 per cent, a.
compared with nearly 80 per cent fol
the hog marketed in Chicago.
2. Only 10 per cent of the hog
marketed in Nevada are tops"
5. The large percentage of smal
hogs marketed makes low prices Oh
lie total output. Small hams and ba-
con do not cure we'll and in some in
stances must be marketed as fres.
pork.
4. The Nevada consumer is biaseo
in favor OF eastern cured smoked
meats, making it necessary to ship
70 per cent OF Nevada cured meat
to California. The consumer does moi
realize that swine fattened on barles
IS equal If not superior to pork fat
tened on corn. Three million dollar
is sent away from Nevada every
year for the purchase of smoked
pork, an average of $50 per capita
5. The population OF Nevada is no
sufficient to consume the fresh cut
Of porf, making it necessary to shii
these cuts to San Francisco at cost
of SAC per pound.
These are five reasons why the Ne
vada swineD grower does not receive
rs much as the man who market
his hogs in Chicago, St. Louis, S
Paupl, or other eastern markets.
The first three conditions are partly
lue to the methods of buying by til,
packing company. 1t is only fair t.
say that the Western Meat Company
since purchasing the Nevada Packing
Company, are paying lalf cent NOR
than was previously paid for pork
products, and are now getting pork
that was formerly shipped to Sar
Francisco.
The biggest boost the biggest sin
gle factor that ever happened to the
swine industry in Nevada, is to b,
by the Nevada Packing
Company in the establishment of f;
market price according to the dressing
percentage of each hog. For instance
if the market price is 9 cents on hog
dressing II per cent, the grower will
be paid premium of 10 cents pei
for each point above II pei
cent that the hog dresses. If he has
a hog weighing 200 pounds, dressing
so per cent, tire grower receives a pre-
MUM of 80 cents per hunderd, or {
totals of 60 cents on the hog. The
man who markets a hog dressing II
per cent will be discounted 10 cent:
per hundred for each point that the
hog falls below the standard.
This system will make it profitable
to raise profitable" hogs, but the
farmer who is marketing the "tule
rooter" fattened on alfalfa will be
forced to quit, as he will no longer
share the profits of his neighbor
The way to market "top" hogs will
be. of course, to breed better fed hogs
and feed better bred hogs.