The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-12-06
INCREASED HOG
PRODUCTION is
URGED farmers
Plan for Greater Animal Food
Output is Outlined by State
Veterinarian.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. with
Indiana doing It's utmost to adjdst
itself To after war conditions as the
result OF Governor Goodrich's recon
struction program, State Veterinarian
l.. y. Northrup Is asking the farmers
OF Northern and Southern Indiana to
cooperate in the production and feed
ing Of hogs. all for increased food pro
duction, for the development OF state
wealth and TO the biggest profit OF the
farmers OF both sections
This suggestion which he Is sending
10 farmers Of both sections, to veter-
inarlans, TO county agents and to all
Interested in the continued increase
OF animal food production, especially
pork and fats, IL to encourage the
farmers In Southern Indiana to raise
pigs until theS are three months old
and weight about eighty pounds and
then sell them to the farmers In North
ern Indiana. who can feed them out to
two hGaGrod pound hogs. This plan
was started last fall. but with peace
coming il becomes definite stock
raising program.
This plan gives the Southern Indi
ana farmer opportunity to use lis
land and resources prohtabiy in pro
aucing light feeders; 1t gives him an
easy and h9nue market where his pigs
can be sold at little expense; and II
gives the Northern Indiana farmer
buying for tho most part out Of the
state, the pigs he neds TO feed with
his corn.
Co-opcration Profitable.
Thus tho farmers OF both sections
find the cooperation moro profitable
Tho Southern farmer can raise pigs
up to three months. cheaply because
Of inexpensive land, climatic condi
lions, warmer weather, less housing
and the good drainage In the hilly
counties. The Southern farmer has
more woodland, yuore Shade; he car
grow clover rape and other hog pas
ture on this uneven land that viii not
grow corn profltably; he can pasture
Gug8 on inexpensive land that vii
NOT aroW Dovn--uN of which furnish
ideal conditions for raising pigs, the
very saIue pigs that the farmer Of the
North, wllh plenty OF cogu wants Il
feed, ard the same pigs he has bee1
boyHg fog feeding from public stock
yards aud from the West, South and
Southwest.
Thus Il Indiana said Dr. North
rdp, we set a supply. section and a
demand suction-one section which
can probably raise hogs TO eighty
ponds and another section, the corn
belt territory, which can feed them
casiiy up to two hundred pounds, whe,
they arc ready for market. The
southern farmer should raise more
and roaco Of these piss.
The demand from the North viii
w. .G5o. we nave received the names
O. Eortneta farIaer5 ready to purchase
@l LaGo pigs.
There is 10 danger of becoming
osCrst2chcd, a. we have on record
tc-', farmers willing to buy all brooG
raga. Thus the Southern farmer il
tT.i5lag young gigs is taking no risks
and he Is selling at good prices to The
man IN tho North.
"'Fhe shipment of pigs from South
Pgl farms to Northern farms has many
Advantages. The health Of the ami
mai2 eau be more easily maintained
gAc piss may DO shipped in clean, san
ltary cars to be vaccinated on arriva
Or ttay may be treated on the farm il
Tie South as soon as they weigh sixty
PGOLda and held twenty to thirty day:
Ind then sold a. unnamed hogs.
Disease IS alHays prevalent II