The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1920-03-11

This valley is all right as a fruit
district, but failure as fruit dis
trict alone. In order to get by we
must raise hogs. cattle and chickens,
and to raise scrub stuff spells failure.
Let us have more dairy stock and the
best is not too good. We have some
registered dairy stock, but not enough.
You rancher that has just common
COW, does she pay for her keep? Dol
lars to doughnuts she doesn't, II you
keep record of her.
On the other hand, good cow will
not consume any more feed and PROB
ably not so much, as the scrub, but
the returns in butter fat and milk will
be greater Let us have more regis
tered dairy stock.
Then again, there is too many fruit
ranches that are hogless. Every fruit
ranch should have at least one brood
SOW, and some places could handle
from three to FIVE nicely. Understand,
lam talking of good stock. A regis
tered SOW will cost more to start with,
but from experience with hogs, can
Say that you will grow more pounds OF
pork with the same amount OF feed
from good registered stock than from
scrub stock Besides it is pleasure
to have good animals on your ranch.
Say you have one good brood sow.
II taken care of properly you should
get two litters of pigs year: say from
six to eight pigs each litter saved.
That would give each rancher his own
meat and a surplus of 10 or IL fat
hogs to put on the market each year.
Mr. Rancher. you would wonder why
you had overlooked friend hog all
these years If you tried 1t out once,
that is, If you give the hog a chance.
Give him plenty OF good. clean feed,
clean pens and plenty of green feed
In the summer time. That is where
you get your cheap. quick growth. In
other words, give the hog square deal
and he will more than repay you for
your trouble and money expended at
selling time. You say no market
The Farm Bureau has overcome that
with the shipping association. We
can now ship through this shipping
association to Denver and get the top
UdTket price IL VIC SION tic iA|ht hihh
of hogs and finish them off properly.
The man that ships Ave hogs through
the association gets the same square
deal as does the man that ships 25.
Another excuse: Haven't time to
drive three or four miles to get serv-
ice of a good boar? That is easily
overcome. A few men can club to-
gether in each neighborhood and buy
good boar and use him for year,
then exchange him with some other
neighborhood that has invested in a
good hog of the same breed. That
way each place has new blood and no
in-breeding for two years.
The same plan could be used to ad-
vantage with registered dairy bulls.
but let us cut out the crosses and
keep each breed pure.
A great many people have the
wrong idea of the hog. He isn't a
filthy animal If given a chance, but
will consume all the waste from the
house. orchard garden and turn into
good. bankable money his owner. You
say he roots. True enough. You
put him in small pen. His system
requires animal matter. You don't
furnish It, so Mr.. Hog roots for worms.
bugs, etc, to try to supply that which
his system requires. The same with
mineral matter. He trys to find that
in the ground. Balance his food with
blood meal charcoal slack ashes. etc.
and there will be no occasion for his
hogship to root. II You treat him
right and give him a chance he will
certainly put the balance on the right
side of the ledger for you.
We have chickens, chickens. and
then more chickens in the valley. but
are they payinso That is the ques-
ton. think If we. as ranchers.
would take more interest in our chick
ems, see that they have good com
Portable quarters and are fed hal
anced ration during the winter period
when eggs are sellingat top price, we
would get better returns from our
fiocks and they would be in better
condition when we put them in the
mating pens in the spring. The av-
erage rancher looses money on his
chickens from lack Of interest II
isn't altogether the chickens, because
he doesn't give them a square deal.
But 1t doesn't matter be II colt. calf.
pig or chicken. II you don't keep IT
growing every winter until matured or
Of selling age. you are losing so let us
resolve as ranchers. that we will get