The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1921-08-09
The Hog Situation
In Kentucky
By "Jimn Mckee


quests coming to our office as the
Oldest breeders ol pedigreed Duroes
in the State or Kentucky that we
take great pleasure in giving you
our views of the situation. On our
own farm we are satisfied that hogs
today are paying us the best returns
for the money invested. We are buy
ing feeds capable Of producing the
six cent hog and yet the market is
paying eleven seventy-five. Do you
know that there is hardly county
in the State of Kentucky today
where a man could buy q carload
of feeder hogsg You know in your
community that hogs are scarce, and
we fnow as breeders, conversant
with conditions, that hogs are scarce
over the entire country. The gov
ernment report gives shortage of
five million hogs. There is the great
est surplus of fed on American
farms today that we have ever had
and reports indicate that we will
produce the largest corn crop in our
history.
The livestock farmer is no longer
competing against the world in the
consumption of grain. We are moi
exporting feeds as we did several
years ago, and the surplus is ac-
cumulating. There is a decrease OF
over ten million animals in the
United States that normally live on
grain. What are you going to dc
with your suIplusq The market tells
the tale. Grains are a drag on the
market and hogs are selling at tre-
mendous profits and there is a great
shortage Of feders.
Things go by currents. The grain
farmers have had their innings for
the last five years, but the tables
are turned for the livestock farmer.
He is not only making big money on
hogs today, but they are going up
and it will take two years before
they can supply the deficit. Are
YOU prepared to take advantage of
this opportunity Have you enough
hogs to consume your corn? Corn is
selling in Iowa today at 42c and
oats at 25c What viii happen when
the bumper crop of corn is har-
vestedY Can you afford to feed
scrub hogs9 You can no more feed
the scrub hogs today than you can
cut your wheat with a sickle or
plant your corn with a. iobber.
You want an efficient animal to
consume your feed. You want q
nedigreed Duroc of the greatest ef-
ficieney. You want the new i'm
proved, big type Duroc of bone, of
scale and ruggedness. You want
hog that is an easy feeder. You must
have early development. Right here
IS where lot of farmers have jump
ed cog. Right here is where the
big Duroc asserts his claims for pre-
eminence. They will grow until thev
are four years old. They are late
but they are quickly and
easily developed-that is finished
They can be marketed at G to 8
months Of age, weighing $50 to 800
pounds, or they can be carried to
and made to weigh 800 TO
900 pounds.
] talked the other day in a Ken
lucky fermers Iced lot and this man
Is a real honest too God hog man He
has sold every year in the last ten
years, from ten thousand 10 twenty
five thousand dollars worth Of hogs.
raising all the hogs. and PRODUCING
all the feed, with the exception of
and oil meal. This farmer
'ad 225 hogs on clover that he was
feeding forty scoop fnlls Of corn .
lav. He sid. "Jim. these hogs viii
average 225 pounds and are ready
'or market. but | can't afford to sell
hem for 1-2c. because 7 believe
logs are going to l2c. Now. these
ioes are big type Durocs. for got
heir ancestors from your farm, and
,ecanse they are big type Of Durocs
can still continue TO feed them
intil the 18th of September, market
hem any day the prices are right