South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-07-20
HOG RAISING GOOD
MORTGAGE LITTER
War Brings Revival OF Interest
in Stock That Freed
Fathers Farm"
rs & H. Little


north side OF the barn
Rubbing her gloomy eyes snc has
found herself without ans warning
.n the glare OF great light
She has suddenly become some
gun. she is the talk OF AN nations.
Tier produce g. what our boys must
have 10 help carry them over The
top
Men high in the government. ed
.tors OF an great papers Red Gross
nurses and the iaDoriug class o.
people; almost everyone to whom
hog formerly meant bacon for
breakfast and caops. well Drowned
FOR supper have been seized with
the hog craze tEIeat conservation
they call it,. nn5 their ideas take
The form Of ~ erything from rails
ing = picgIe wiegie on milk i'm the
back Yards 30 telling the experienced
farmer how 20 grow four pigs where
one grew before
] heard man say the other DAY
shat pork prices would drop back
20 where they we're before war
times Poor man he has no hogs,
How can they
There are. they tell us. $1,000
900 less hogs i'm the world today
than there should be. They so 10
the government reports and show
that 50 per cent OF an the money
spent by the average family goes
for the purchase Of meat.
They say that our army must
have 20 many hundred Of thou
sands OF pounds or pork per day
upon which 20 down the kaiser and
. hen this is only drop in the pork
barrel. 10 supply pork for those
French and English and Italian
lighters. And an this before We
even begin to feed these average
families At home
As cheerful conclusion they
show us that breeding stock is prac-
ticaIlv exhausted in the warrms
countries, so that we must prepare
not only 10 feed them now. but To-
replenish their foundation stock
when the war is ended
The mai that stays 10y his hogs
will ~ the man 10 make good The
American farmer who is regular
glutton FOR the taking on big Jobs
and finishing them hut he viii
make good He can afford TO make
the necessary effort. lie cannot ar
ford no. TO As meats and fats be
come scsrcer the world over il d
also true that they become cor
respondingly higher I'm price and
correspondence more profitable to
The producer. Even before the war
was thought or however. there was
F.--r aud e.nrr...T rt..r.
marked tendency 20 greatly Increase
hog production
Hogs Real Profit
Notwithstanding ehe particular
branch OF farming he happens 10
he engaged i'm. the farmer is finding
that it is his hoes that bring him
the most profits If he ran a
dairy he was nnduS that hoes to
turn his by-products and refuse into
money. were his real salvation when
DO came to actual profits. II ne
specially in raising grains ne was
a0dinc that the hos was the most
pro6ta BILE sack iu which 90 market
his crops ff hc srazed cattle i'm any
way ne found thar thrifty herd OF
hogs 90 follow up his CATTLE made up
the difference between little or
more frequently no profit and real
profit and not only IN the matter OF
todavS profits but ion the matter OF
tomorrow's bread and butter the
foresiEhted farmer was thinking or
his soils fertility and the suprem-
-cy Or a large herd OF hoes i'm ac-
omphshing this important result
Above all kinds of pork incubat-
o.s that has vet been developed.
We know the Duroc sows will beat
them ar. She is the worlds most
economical meat producer. They
are the worlds quickest meat pro-
ducer. Tn so far As it is possible
90 play sure thing with live
stock. she is the sure thiue. An i'm
Nestment IN Ounce sovs ON amy
farm will return more profits than
like investment 10 amy other
stock on a farm.
since the Worlds fair at 81
Louis where they were FLASH intro
duced 20 the sworld they have been
coming faster every year than amy
other breed
40 chance 90 down chem set. have
vou been 10 the fairs and seen them
when they were driven oute Did
YOU notice that enormous sIzee With
their easy feedine qualities and their
-reat constitution % makes chem
chem able 90 40 on any farm u au
climate and lift the morJEaSe.
Dur0c soWs with their tendency
30 proficiency. their naturally pleas
7ut disposition and good motherE
CHARACTERISTICS and their inherent
70atorical structure which makes
'srrovnz easy they have q repu-
-atiou among the experienced far
-e-s aIl their own and without dam
zsr ~ being superseded oy othel
breeds
VOW is the time for farmers Co
build their foundation. With con-
fl,ious as they are TODAY every FAR
.er ought TO b- feediue bunch
~ moss for the market There is
le. only but very small rer Gem.
90 The pork producers uut what
HsUs either pure bred boar col
-am, pure bred ~1v~ m his herd As
rork prices Increase and the alarm
..It n-sf shortage becomes more