The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-12-23

continuous income and there is a
market every day Of the year.
es and by-products Of the farm can-
not be economically consumed by
any other farm animal and there Is
no farm animal that returns the fer
tilizer in as practical and efficient a
Permanent agriculture IS impos-
sible without hogs for several rea-
sons. Much OF the grains and grass
manner as does the hog over the
fields and pastures. No animal the
farmer raises has the ability 20 cut
down the fertilizer bills as has the
hog ON the farms Of the country II
given the right opportunity.
Large farm operations are not the
only ones where the hog fits In and
does his part well. From a section
Of Iowa farm land 20 "A few small
ores in the lower section of Florida
is a far cry but the hog fits into both
enterprises plays his part and proves
his worth. A pig club girl in Flor
ida, on one or two acres Of her faith
er's little ranch last year raised some
club pigs and won some notable
prizes in the state contest, and made
some money besides She is at II
again. this year but the pigs are be
ing raised on a different lot than
last year, the latter ground being
planted TO tomatoes, and the last
time the writer heard from her she
I had harvested more pounds Of to-
matoes off Of that little piece Of
ground without any fertilizer Tex
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pigg) than had ever been grown on
so small a patch in the history Of that
/ community. Her profit on the pigs
/ last year is augmented by increased
/ crops this year This is one Of many
+ thousand examples that could be quo
ted along this line. II Florida plan
ters and farmers viii only pay heed,
"a little child shall lead them" yet.
Permanent agriculture cannot be
| carried on by system Of continual
, robbery Of the soil, and commercial
fertilizers are not a cure-all by any
means Fertility kept up with live
/ stock, and especially the hog and
I crop rotation has proven the safe and
sure method In only few favored
spots in the whole world can a rob
bing system be kept up for any length
Of time. In the Delta country the
writer saw a piece Of cotton a few
| months ago growing IN "A field that
had produced the same sort Of crop
since 1855 and had never had an
ounce Of fertilizer put on II This
IS not good farming. however, even
I'm such rich soil. and could not have
been done anywhere else In the Uni
ted States, perhaps.
We have mentioned two extremes
In "a paragraph above but u is the
ordinary farm of which there are 80
many hundred thousand in our land
where hogs properly handled weave
into good farming the best Of at i've
stock They do not need so many
acres Of pasture, they do not take
so long 10 mature, neither do they
need so much care as cattle and 9TH
er livestock
The writer believes that the man
ner in which many Of the purehred
herds within his knowledge are hand
led, and the amount Of commercial
feed the breeders buy keeps many a
man out Of the business. Hogs can
be handled with much less care and
attention than is put on them IN a
great many Of our herds. More at
tention 20 a succession Of pastures,
more crops that the hog can harvest
as he feeds, lessons the work, in
creases health and makes more profit
How many good crops Of pigs hav-
you and | seen ruined with heavy
stopping when exercise getting Q
large part Of their own feed, would
have been beneficial for both pigs
and their owners. The Northern hog
raiser Is not nearly so well situated
in this regard as the men in the
South. but even he carried more sl0r
than he should. The raiser has never
been fully converted to the self feed
or for breeding animals but he sure
would use these permanently and
continually in market hog growing
With self feeders and water pipeC