Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-15
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
~ DR.. ANDREW Nj SOULE

as well, as slaughter tests at our va
rious packing plants show.
Moreover, the animals we are now
sending to the handlers dress out
from Is per cent to 20 per cent bet
ter than they did even four years ago.
about unless they were of better
grade to begin with and better rec
and handled than previous to that
time Other evidences of the inn
provement of the grade and character
of our animals are shown by the fact
that the internal organs are for the
most part saved as fit for human
food. In. this connection it is proper
to state that this result has come
about also under the competent and
efficient inspectorship of agents OF
the United States bureau of animal
industry who are located at our va
rious slaughtering plants to safe
guard the public against the con-
sumption of meat which is not 81
the highest type and quality.
Finally, the records of our pack
ing plants indicate that the live
weight Of our hogs has increased in
| four years by something over % per
cent. Every county in Georgia last
Der of hogs save one, which happened
to be Spalding county. Clinch county
made the least gain, represented by
an increase of 81 per cent. johnson
county, on the other hand, made the
greatest gain, represented by an in
crease of 1922 per cent. In this con-
nection it is desired to point out that
farmers should select their hogs with
greater skill now than in the past
and should endeavor to handle them
so as to finish them off at the right
weights. The best weight at which
TO finish hogs appears to be $50
pounds and over. Too heavy hogs are
O. course as Objectionable as too
Eaht hogs.
AS an Illustration of the profits
which may accrue to the hog owner
by putting on so or 100 pounds( more
mating. During the month of May
hog prices ran about as follows:
When the animals weighed under
100 pounds they brought to II
cents. When they weighed 100 to 120
pound. When they weighed 14O to
$50 pounds, 17% to 10 cents. When
they weighed 160 and over, 1871 to
10 cents a pound. In other words, the
man who put so pounds additional
than twice the price of the careless
or Indifferent owner who allowed
his hogs to go to market when weigh
ing less than 100 pounds. This is a
lesson of such great economic i'm
portance that it cannot be passed
over lightly
Undoubtedly there are thousands
upon thousands of hogs sent to mar
ket in this state which weigh under
100 pounds. In case we had no more
than 100000 of these animals the
loss due to a, failure to finish them
about 100000. and every time we
have an additional 100000 hogs
weighing. under 100 pounds sent to
slaughter we must add similar
amount to the sum total of our
losses. The man who objects to feed
ing and finishing off his hogs salts
factorily should sit down with his
pencil and figure oyer this PROPOSE
ton He will find that he can feed
a whole lot of grain and make a
larger relative profit. out of the 100
pound hog at 1871 to 10 cents a
grain and selling his hog weighing
lees than 100 pounds at to II
cents.
When peanuts are sold al 5 cents
a pound they will bring 500 ton.
If sold at Il cents pound, $110 a
ton. When sold at, 6 cents a pound,
S120 2 ton. The above are good prices
where the crop is harvested by hand
and marketed at the oil mill or In
such other manner as the producer
may see fit 1t is now pretty well
established that 2.03 pounds Of pea
NUTS will produce in the neighbor-
hood of one pound of pork, and that
a ton of them will make around
9S5 pounds of pork, if properly fed
1t appears, therefore, that If hog
sells at 10 cents a pound the pea
nuts it consumed would be worth
$9S.5O ton. If it sells at - cents
per pound the peanuts would be
worth $11S.20 per ton. which is about
the price the producer might expect
TO get for. them when harvested and