The Washington times., 1918-03-01

E EpOchal Berkshire Boar Value Hard to Estimate.
Mr. Hoover the Government and patriotism say to the
people, "Raise pigs
A pig will live on food that is wasted
One pig female becomes pigs at the end of year.
snd some times twelve pigs
The right kind of pig will weigh three hundred and six
yve pounds at the end of three hundred and
Representatives 400 pounds in seven months
With the right kind Of pig and pen, you lean over,
look down and say yourself every night when go to
sleep have pound of pork out there than had the
day before
Patriotism will stimulate interest in pigs. PROFIT
also will stimulate interest So read about this pig the great
Berkshire Epochal belonging to H. W. Gossard and de-
scribed in L. E. Frost's Berkshire World
1t costs little to feed and keep pig like this His sons
and daughters valuable than highly bred young
race horses and good deal more useful
-Four sx-Weeks-old of this Berkshire have been
sold for $4,000 each considerable number of sons for
one thousand two thousand and three thousand dollars
apiece
The animals worth these extraordinary prices and
champion animal of this kind give its hun
ded thousand dollars profit in year. because the right blood
adds so many pounds Of pork to each pig of the right breed
This Berkshire Epochal will weigh thousand pounds
when he reaches top weight As pork he would be worth
$3.50 AS the most arisocrac living pig he worth to his
owner a sum hard to calculate.
You will observe that this animal is built something like
batteshp something like freight car shaped carry
every available pound of pork His proud owner with
admrng sob In his voice. says Look at tha-good head
ear very large bone the smoothet shoulder ever
on boar great heart gh perfect back wonderful length
and depth amazingly good top and bottom line and ham
that Is as ham should be- and all supported of feet
that will carry his thousand pounds as lightly as
feather"
GosSard who thinks more of this pig than Philip of
Macedonia thought of his Alexander REALLY in the
pig business.
One of his pig FARMS with three thousand animals for
yeara million dollars worth of food at the present prices
By the don't let these figures tempt you into
buying stock aHybOdS raising If
in pigs RAISE PIGS don't buy stock YOU'D BE ROBBED.
While discuss this aristocrat among the fathers of
the pig world let not forget the twoegged fathers that
wander up and down. Here's an important fact.
This pig cannot possibly have healthy children unless
he gets regular exercise.
Professor s. Mnckler head of the animal husbaudry
department in the New Jersey agricultural station says
instances are numerous where breeding males have been
absolutely ruined by close confinement and heavy feeding
Exercise is of prime Importance in the management
The practical herdsman knows that small weak tters
the result of inactivity the part the father previous
to the mating and breeding season"
That ought to interest the American hundred time mil
lonre who works his BRAIN negects his body could afford
TO eat Epocha pork for breakfast every morning and won
ders why. his own youngsters thin legged nervous
Tickety.
The millionaire who buys Thousand dollar limousine
exercise child not worth ten cents learn something
by reading the Berkshire World.
Says the expert:
eff possible, build your hog house into bank or side
hill with southern southeastern slope thus providing
house proof against cold winds with dry yards warmth and
sunshine ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH IN YOUNG PIGS -
Do not for instance imagine that you could raise Young
pigs successfully in the dark sunless damp tenements in
which civilization raises so many of its twolegged
youngsters