The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-27
swine GROWERS
END SESSIONS
MUCH DISCUSSION OF COMING
NATIONAL HOG AND CATTLE
SHOW-FLORIDA AS STOCK
STATE is FORGING RAPIDLY TO
THE FORE.

The Florida Swine Growers Asso-
citation closed it's two day meeting in
Jacksonville, following a morning ses-
sion and an auction sale Of pure bred
hogs at the state fair grounds in the
afternoon. 1t was generally agreed the
| meeting there was the most success
full ever held A number of new mem
bers were taken in, the Membership
being about 200 at the present time.
/ The program carried out Friday
morning included a discussion of the
! following subjects:
Should a Sow Be Starved at Mar
rowing Time? Why?
| Should Hogs Be Fed Minerals? Why
| Should Hogs Be Fed a Variety of
Feeds? Why?
Should gifts Be Bred Young? Why?
| Should Bears Be Put Into Service
Young? Why?
| Laws Affecting the Swine Industry
and Their Enforcement by DR.. j. w.
DeMilly, acting state veterinarian, Tai
! lahassee, Fla.
Discussion was general, and included
many phases of these subjects and al
lied subjects. A general exchange of
successful ideas of hog raising result
ed. and instead of set speeches, hog
men got down to exact statements of
things they do in raising swine in
Florida.
LOOMS Burdett, Jr., manager Of the
Highland Oaks Farm, Pierce, aroused
the swine men to a high pitch of en-
thusiasm when he reported postpone
ment of an advertised sale of high class
Durocs in September because he sold
at private sale fifty of his hogs for a
round $3.50 per head. bringing him $12,-
500 for the lot. This is one of the
biggest sales of pure bred hogs at pri-
vate sale ever made in Florida, and
marks an advancement in the indus
try which is considered remarkable
A Fort Myers hog raiser made the
purchase.
Discussion of the National Hog and
Cattle Show at Atlanta, October 1921,
received attention from the swine
men, discussion on the Southern Swine
Growers Association, which was or
ganized in Jacksonville last January,
with q. c.. Herlong. Micanopy, it's first
president: w. NJ. Traer Jacksonville,
secretary, and H. II. Simmons, Jack
sonyille, treasurer. The association has
more than 100 members at the present
time. it is reported, and is growing
rapidly. An effort to bring great num-
bers of swine growers into the asso-
citation from the Southern states will
be made in time to make the big show
at Atlanta in the greatest of it's kind
ever staged in the South.
Florida Growers to Exhibit.
The Southern Cattle Association and
the Southern Swine Growers Ass ia
ton are back of the stock show to be
fnc Of
already engaged fifteen pens at Allan
ia for next October, while Burdett
Loomis, Jr, Pierce, has engaged ten
pens. 1t is expected that other Flor
ida growers will make reservations,
giving that state a leading place at
this first great Southern stock show,
which is expected to find it's only rival
in the international live stock show.
Mr.. Herlong took the place of w.
H. Peacock, Cochran, Ca, in discus
sion of the big Southern stock show.
He mad ca talk which was received
with great interest and enthusiasm.
DR.. A. H. Logan. federal veterinar-
ian, Gainesville, who is in charge of
educational work in the control of hog
cholera, states that when he came to
Florida five years ago, he could count
on the fingers of one hand the num-
Der of Florida swine growers Of pure
bred hogs. Today the number is le-
gion, and is growing with leaps and
bounds. He recites numerous cases of
labored work in convincing farmers of
the value of blooded stock, who later
became genuine enthusiasts.
He says the South, and especially
Florida, is the coming stock section of
the United States. There are twelve
months of the year that hogs can run
out without penning up, while in the
great corn belt of the middle West
hogs are up for six months. And while
lands there will grow heavier ION
time" crops, in Florida with her al
most year-round growing season can
grow more feed and raise hogs cheap
er than anywhere else in the United
States. Together with the elimination
of hog diseases, this will easily in time
move the stock industry into the
South, and Florida will get big share
of it as her records already show she
is getting.
Following the sale here yesterday
swine men expressed the opinion that
there are too many difficulties nj hold
ing an association sale. Private sales
have invariably proved more success
full. The highest price here yesterday
was $3.50.
The next meeting will be held at
Live Oak, September 16.
WILL HAVE HEARING ON