Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-05
|IARTS CAMPAIGN
M0NG FARMERS TO
REED BETTER HOGS

w. WATTS TELLS COUNTY
ASSOCIATION INCREASED EFF.
FORT SHOULD BE MADE TO I'M
PROVE couNTYs PORK OUT
PUT.
The necessity for better breeds OF
ogs and increased efforts toward in
reasing the county's annual output oi
ork were pointed out by W, "
Watts, chairman of the committee Oh
i've stock, at the annual meeting o
he La Sale County Better tarmint
Association. Mr.. Watts in support o
lis arguments said
1T is estimated that there are 3,tb.
1oars OF all breeds in La Sale County
OF these perhaps 200 are pure bred
Of the four leading breeds Polant
China, Duroc Jersey, Chester White
and Hampshire.
There is a large demand for breed
ers' association sales where choie
animals from each herd are oneret
Two sales of fifty head each OF eacs
of the four breeds would supply onls
400 head, If all were sold to local pee
pie, but many would be bought
people from outside of the county.
while we all have preference
about the breed Of hogs We raiat
those preferences originate largely b.
cause OF belief that a particula
breed is more profitable for us thar
another. In developing a reputation
for locality in which to find pnr'
bred animals, | wish TO remind yo.
that a large number of animals OF
less number of breeds will attrac
more purchasers than a few animal
OF many breeds, We have no NOR
than one occasion gone outside OF tn
county for pure bred Poland China
where we had an opportunity OF Sc
lecting from large number. We di
not do this because We could get bel
ter animals, but because we could sc
more or the breed in less time an
with less expense.
Il believe that the sale that We ha
on Feb. 10, when fifty-four head ave
aged little over S1G5, has demon
strated the fact that there is an OF
portunity not only to dispose Of III
surplus. but to increase the produ'
ton OF pure bred hogs.
Even the feeder, breeder Of stoc
hogs, can see how he can buy a pur
bred SOW in pig and raise his oW
bears and have the SOW and som
pigs for profit. as We pay from -
to $50 and more for our maze pig
in the fall. Next fall let US have I
least four boar sales in different part
OF the county There is plenty {
room for that many, as, you see, tit
head in each sale would only supp
20U head OF the 5000 needed,
What is true with hogs is also tru
with cattle 1t is estimated thS
there are 1000 bulls of the beef tyE
used in the county, and only 600 {
them are pure bred. The Two leadin
breeds are the Herfords and Shol
horns or Polled Durhams. Two sale
of fifty head each would offer only Il
head of the best from the cOnsignor
herds. | think there is a big deman
in the county for such sales, for,
YOU know, many outside the count
come to make public and private pu
strated to these people that We haN
the stock.
The HEREFORD breeders have had
county organization for some tim
and what has been the result? n
only have they been able to ship mar
and many carload OF bulls to tt
western ranches, but also many ca
load OF females. At Ues Moines q
other day one contributor from ives
ern Kansas had six 2-year-old heife
from dams purchased in La Sal
County in carload lots which sold #
an average of $1,S6S. | saw a heit
sold by a Colorado man for $ 81
This heifer was one Of a lot OF $
heifer calves which We're purchased
Joliet on Dec. II, 1917. for $500 het
a total of $1.420 for all Of thel
Now the man who sold these calv
was able to sell at price which mat
him a profit, and surely the man WI
bought them made plenty OF none
I also saw a 2-year-old bull sell f
s1.050 which left this county when
calf for $l25. | saw Herford CO
Is months old which came direct fro
this county sell for $1.575. We c;
do it. Why don't we do more of it?
when are you Shorjhorn a.
Polled Durham men going to get
gether and organize? Then we W
have a Shorthorn and Polled Durha
sale.
AT the Des Moines sale Fred Re
pert suggested that we raise a pur
for the winner Of the grand champi
steer of the Polled HEREFORD breed
the next International Stock Show
fifteen minutes $4,000 was raise
Mind you this is in addition to t