Arizona republican., 1919-04-13
More Hogs for Georgia

 and the growing season is three fourths of the year. They plant the corn rows about three to seven feet apart. Between the rows they plant velvet beans, which climb the corn stalks, and peanuts, locally known as goobers. The hog is generally turned into the field to clean up this growth in the fall. Of course, the peanuts are gathered and marketed when there is a market, but the hogs always get part of the crop, and sometimes get 1t all The same is true of sweet potatoes. They are raised for the market, and since the south has discovered what kind of sweet potato the north wants, marketing has become more success ful. The southerner likes a red, juicy sweet potato of the yam type. A dry sweet potato finds no favor withs southern epicure of either color. And it took the south a long time to realize that the north wants a dry, mealy, pale looking sweet potato, resembling an Irish potato as much as possible. Now, such sweet potatoes are being quite generally raised for the northern market. And the hog stands by to take any that the north doesn't want, He has no prejudice against either kind of sweet potato. He gets all of the culls in any case, and when the crop is large he gets some of the choicest potatoes. Thus, he is always at hand to absorb and turn into ham and bacon any crop that does not find a ready market. In asmuch as he goes into the field and harvests the crop for himself, he is also labor saving device. And in case the cotton crop fails, or cotton prices are very low, he is the farmers financial ! salvation.
 ! With all of these considerations in his favor, 1t is a wonder the hog has not won an even more important place on the southern farm than he now enjoys. The chief reason is that he does not fit into the credit system of the country. Any man who is in a po- sltion to raise cotton can borrow money on his prospects in any Geor- 1 gia town. The cotton bale is as much a unit of trade as the dollar But the same cannot be said of the hog. He is Q newcomer. There is nothing against him except the forces of custom and ] inertia. And these are being over come.
 At present the chief need of the
 
 sweet potatoes and velvet beans and peanuts and all the other waste and forage are good enough for him to grow up on and give him a distinctive flavor and a firm flesh, corn remains the one and only Finishing" feed. If he is to compete with hogs from other sections of the country in the great markets, the Georgia hog must be in- tensively corn-fed, for a short period before his execution. Georgia grew 6S,000,0O0 bushels of corn last year, all of which was fed to livestock in the state, and it is going to grow 110. .00O. 900 bushels this year. Yet there is not enough corn for the growing army of hogs. This means that cotton must surrender still more of it's acres to corn before Georgia pork can be put on a firm basis.
 And there is little doubt but that cotton will do so. Right now, when cotton prices ought to be going up, they are going down. The boil weevil is marching toward the sea like another Sherman. Meanwhile Georgia pork is fetching top prices in the northern markets, and the Geargia porker is thriving. No wonder that the Georgia planter, looking back over his long and losing struggle with the cotton market plants old cotton fields in corn and buys more and better hogs.