The Ordway new era., 1918-11-22
Hogs Harvest
An Alfalfa Crop
J. S. Work Stocks Ranch With
Porkers and Sells $4,000
Worth With $4,000 Yet for
the Market.

the Market.
There is q ranch in Crowley county
some good money the past season. has
shown good way to harvest and
market alfalfa. 1t is a case of mark
citing alfalfa on the hoof, and it has
always been contended that crops
marketed on the hoof are more pro-
fitable than marketed in any other
manner.
| This ranch belongs to ]. s. Work.
and is located at King Center. 1t
is a 16O acre tract and was part
of the famous Auckland alfalfa
ranch 1t is the northeast quarter
section OF that tract of land, on the
south side of the main highway and
west of the King Center school house.
About year ago Mr.. Work bought
this land. 1t was in alfalfa and he
left it that way, but the good price
of hogs then. with the market in
dicating that it would remain good,
he devised the hog method of har-
vesting and started in to stocking
the place Wherever and whenever
he could buy esow and pigs, or
some pigs, or hogs or most anything
else of the hog tribe he did so. and
during the season and up to few
days ago he had sold fat hogs to
the amount of $4,000 and then had
about $4,000 worth of hogs left on
| hands, some of which VIII soon be
ready for the market.
A sale of over 100000 worth of
hogs is no little item and Mr.. Work
has developed one of the biggest hog
ranches in the Arkansas valley and
on about as large a scale as there
is to be found in the state.
Mr.. Work pastured the hogs on the
alfalfa, having the land cross fenced
for the different stages of the ami
mails growth He fed them corn and
toward the fattening time allowed
them to have all the corn they need
ed, but the pasture end of the feed
ing game was the profitable end of
the business. Corn is high and had
he undertaken to raise and feed out
that number of hogs without pasture
he might have come out the little
end of the horn, but the alfalfa pas
ture made the business a profitable
bame
The method Mr.. Work adopted in
stocking the place was quicker one
than had he ende ivored to buy snwr
and build up 4 bunch of hogs. lie
figured the opportunity was at hand
Ina that it was better to buy his
stock than to wait to raise 1t and
that accounts for his having so many
hogs so soon after he went into the
hog business game. The surprise to
some was that there were so many
pigs and hogs to be found in the
country, but in some way he found
them and his sales have proven that
the country was full of this stock
The Auckland farm was one of
the biggest alfalfa tracts in the state
prior to its division a few months
ago. but now 1t is providing several
farmers with a good acreage of land
and they are all doing we'll Joe
Roberts, formerly of New York, pur-
chased the tract on the south con-
sisting of 160 acres which has a fine
lot of improvements. He is farming
the place with P. d. Getchell as su-
perintendent.
Another tract, consisting of 147
acres. was bought by Clyde Ford,
and on this he has erected a nice
brick cottage and is making other
substantial improvements. Some OF
his land he put into beets and this
season raised a good crop. The tract
of 160 acres which Mr.. Work bought
has improvements. under way, and
the hotel building which stood on
i
been moved over and is to become
a residence.
One portion of the place. that locat-
ed west of the meal mill and running
south to the next section line, has
had new bungalow cottage erected
and is being farmed by one of the
Japanese farmers. NJ. Sato, while
Chas. Auckland owns 160 acres and
has 1t well improved.
So the big Auckland alfalfa ranch
has become the home of several farm
ers instead of one. The mill which
had burned down has been rebuilt
and is in operation, under the owner
ship of Pueblo company. The
parceling out of this land was big
step toward the smaller tract theory
of farming in Crowley county. There
are not many of the big farms left,
and each year brings more farmers
and more intensified farming and
tsock raising. In another ten years
there will probably be nearly double
the number of farmers on the lands
under irrigation in this county than
/ there are n nrasanf