The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1919-05-28
With Nine Thousand Hogs In
Giynn Co., 1t Was Difficult
To Send Out a Car.
PORK is TOO HIGH FOR
AMOUNT OF 1T IN GEORGIA
Maybe Some Conflicting Meth
ods of Relief But a Better Hog
Can Be Raised at 800 Pounds
Than at so, the Present Size
for Market.

County and state agents are inter
ested in cheapening the price OF pork
With prices soaring in the ne1ghbof
hood of fifty cents for pork chops-the
values of ether cuts Of white meat Is
varying accordingly.
Follows the Ticker.
While the hog crop of Glynn cohntV
il merely adjusted to supply home
demand prices will continue to obey
tie ticker of the big packing cen
ters like. Kansas City and st. l-ouiF
Mo. county Agent J. w, Arnold, Jf
said Yesterday he had listed one nun
dred and one growers of pigs IN the
county nd tht the estimated profit pc
year was twenty-seven dollars per pig
for those in the business.
Hogs Too Small.
The difficulty in the local SITUATION
is thu demand of the local market TO-
small grown hogs. The available mar
ketable size of a hog approved in the
local abattons is sixty to eighty
pcuntis. The point of the matter is
that while hog growers of the county
number over one hundred and raised
9,008. hogs last wear. the product wa'
~ pE the market SO small in size
.to have no appreciable effect or
tie 6iice Of pork.
%sPork is Lively.
In Brunswick, within a stones throw
of the iiveNest proposition in porf
In Georgia and that means considera
BILE, prices Of white meat are sorine
to attitudes be.tond the reach OF the
average man,
plenty Of Hogs.
Plenty of pork has been raised In
Georgia this year. More hogs were
raised than the rilrods could take cart
of or. the pcking, houses wnted to XII
In fact during part of the season 1t
was impossible to ship the succulen'
porker out of the state because the
northern ports were congested ano
there. was an embargo on all OF the
p0rk products of this great state oi
Georgia,
Little local Reiief
S,Dsspite the embargo there was IT
ttes. or no change for the relief of thf
consumer, in Glynn county. In Savan
nah the prices Of domestic pork Wen!
down for awhile, and then obeyed the
behssts Of the packing interests and
resumed their former level.
Around Brunswick, the chief object
of the former is to raise more ane
better pork. New stock that has soma
frame to hang weight to is just gettfns
ready TO be a paying proposition. The
sixty-pound porker is not profile,
BILE hog in the sense that he is yieldin.
enough for the markets, from the far
mers' standpoint.
Three Hundred Pounds.
Pigs are forty pounds when they
are eight weeks old and eighty pounds
when they are four months old, i
they are good pigs, according TO Mr.
Arnold. At this age the local mar
ket demands him, just when he l.
shaping UP some kind of frame tt
hang about three hundred pounds o
white meat to.
Shipping 1t Out.
up in Savannah, they are build nj
packing plants to take care Of TIM
surplus pork. A chain of packfns
houses has been brought into tina
city by New York promoters to maks
itPthe shipping point for packing in
terests in the south that will com
nand capital of one hundred million
dollars Pigs are plenty accordin'
to Mr. Arnold, but they re SO small
when turned over to the butcher Il
Glynn county that people cannot al
ford to eat them.