South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-11-26
CulLing Poultry Flocks Found
to Pay Wide Surrey ShoWs

the herd Tor reproductive purposes.
Live Stock Development.
SO many hog feeders OF the
county have asked the writer about
the probable market that we are
prompted 10 discuss this matter
very frankly. not with the idea OF
laying down any hard and fast
rules. but TO point out those trends
of the market that the prospective
hog feeder will want 20 keep in
mind
During the last three or four
months we have had a very abnor-
NAL relation between the price OF
corn and the price OF hogs A nor
NAL relation is understood to be
when the price of 100 pounds Of
pork is about the price Of Is bush
els OF corn. The present pork price
is closer 10 the price of 30 bushels
OF corn. The first reason for this
is that there is a large corn crop,
and the second is that the supply
OF feeder hogs in the country is
rather under normal. This results
in a situation 10 which feeders are
making high bills for stocker pigs.
At present. no man is warranted in
paying more per pound for his feeo-
ers than the fat hogs will bring per
pound on the market.
A situation Of this character al
ways swings from one extreme to
the other. -WheneveR a business be
comes profitable, so many others
jump into il that Il eventually be-
comes Improbable. due to the in
crease of the supply, demand being
usually much the same.
Bearing in mind the present stu
alton, a number Of men. especially
the younger farmers. have asked
the writer whether il would be safe
to increase their hog breeding op-
erations. II il unusually difficult TO
forecast agricultural conditions at
this time. but nothing is truer than
that the present relation OF the
prices OF corn and hogs Will narrow
down and pork prices will take a
great slump.
Crash Is Inevitable.
Just when the crash will come is
the all-important question. on
every hand we have advices that
this fall than ever before One
young farmer told me the other day
that he had recruited IS gifts for
breeding from the feed lots OF his
neigh bors. We cannot help but feel
that such an increase in breeding
stock will eventually be followed
by serious losses That reaction
is bound 10 come will be denied by
no che who is conversant with the
conditions. The time OF its coming
vii! depend upon the nature Of this
falls pig crop. conditions OF the
corn crop next year and how soon
extensive export trade will be re-
sumed.
Sometime ago we mentioned the
fact that a farmer in Edgar County.
H.. gave his hired man a tubercu-
lOus COW as pay for work he had
done. Five OF the children became
tuberculous and slaughter OF the
COW showed that she had general
lied tuberculosis although she look
ed strong and healthy. Here IS the
picture OF the unfortunate family.
The oldest girl and the baby were
unaffected: the girl did not drink
milk and the baby, who had not yet
been given cows milk. Mix is the
greatest food there IA. but your
question IS: is the milk am feed
ing my family saft?" II YOU do not
know, make sure by applying today
(not tomorrow, for the govern
ment tuberculin test 20 be applied
20 your herd or see that your milk
man delivers your milk from tested
COWS. The old family COW Is not
the least sign that she is not tuber-
culous, as the father OF the family
above has found out 10 his very
great sorrow