Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-22
The Country Home
RAISE YOUR OWN HOGS.
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

It shows a lack of thrift, for a
farmer who has to go to town to
| buy the pork and bacon that he
eats. 1t costs but little more to
raise a hog than to feed a dog. If
the hogs can have pasture y root
in during the hot months and then
get the scraps and the Stops from
the kitchen until they are put up
in a close pen to fatten, the expense
of raising two or three or four
porkers for winter killing will hard
ly be appreciable. When they are
put up in close pen to fatten, they
must have plenty to eat, and what
ever Of corn that is fed to them
should be well boiled, 20 keep them
fattening and to make the food di-
gestible and get it's full value, as
good nourishment. In olden times
we were as careful to get lot of
shoats in good condition for winter
killing during the spring. Then they
were placed in branch pasture
during the hot summer months. La
ter, about the last of October, they
were placed in close pens, and fed
plentiful until December, before
Christmas, then butchered. Moth
ing raised on a farm more quickly
responds to good care and plenty
of food than fattening hog. If
you have plenty of meat to season
your vegetables and elard to season
your corn bread, you can be as Gin
dependent as a WoodsaWyer," accord
ing to an ante-bellum proverb.
Pork and beef should be raised,
no matter how Small the farm may
be. The thriftless people who de-
pend on cotton, to pay for all they
eat or wear, are apt to live poor and
have a scant supply of ready-to-
wear clothes.
Be sure to get a start in hogs.
The Boil WeeVil and Its Vagaries
The cotton crop in the Cherokee
section Of Georgia, where / have
lived for nearly seventy years, is
generally picked out and generally
marketed. Barlow county is approx
imately forty miles square. In some
sections the ravages of weevil were
terrible. In others the people are
making a fairly good crop. The
owner Of a fine Etowah river farm
told me a few days ago he would
average six and half bales to the
mule. The boil weevil passed him
over. There is a section around
Adairsville and above Kingston were
the crops are indeed very small, but
the general result has been as much
affected by the midsummer drought
as by the boil WeeVil pest.
A short time after the Civil war
we had a ravage by grasshoppers.
They ate every green leaf, and it
looked like they would destroy the
entire top crop, but we did make
an average cotton crop, and next
year we had no trouble with grass
hoppers.
may be mistaken, but think the
boil weevil will pass along, and III
our farmers will make a business of
blowing up all the cotton stalks be-
fore Christmas and burn them, and
then plant corn and SOW oats and
wheat where the Weevils had BEEN
most in evidence in 1921, I believeI
we will finally be rid of them I'M
this commonsense way.
A few years ago we all made a
business of buying choice planting
cotton seed from other sections, and
I believe we have scattered the boll
weevils in that way. These boil Wee
wills have been like the locusts =
Pharaoh's time; however, they spared
nobody in Georgia who raised cot
ton. Some had a few, while others
were literally robbed of a cotton
crop. I prophesy a better chance
next year if we will plant something
besides cotton where the WeeVils |
were most in evidence.