The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-05-31

tOr Ulal mas recently secured front
departments. The type OF hog just
mentioned on the contrary, is sold at
a much lower price per pound than the
firm or "hard" meat hog. Little as
1t might be believed there is an ac-
tual difference Of between five ana six
cents per pound, .he ruling price re-
ccived in the South, and nine cents and
sometimes more paid for the corn-fed
hog Of north and northwest.
Senator Dial was astounded a few
days ago when he visited one of the
government experiment stations in
Maryland, not far from Washington,
and discovered that there was a con-
siderable difference in prices paid the
hog-raiser for the peanut-fed, oily hog,
and the one fed on corn diet in the
great northwest.
Taking his observations gained at
tn" experiment station as starting
point Senator Dial carried these further
and what lie shcHs in a statement is
sued hero today will undoubtedly op-
en- the eyes of the progressive farmers
Of the South to the wreat annual loss
es they are suffering through the rails
ing and marketing Of poor quality of
hog. 1t is Senator Diaps belief, from
what he has discovered, that when the
intelligent people Of the South find
what they are losing by feeding an in
ferior diet and how much more money
they could get for their product when
grown Of the "firm' or "hard type,
they will lose little time in Immediate
ly following the more progressive
methods of the thrifty hog raisers Of
the corn-helt section who are able to
have for sale the real prime article in
hog meat.
Senator Dial said that assuming the
difference in the southern and western
hog to be but four or five cetns a
pound, and he believes it much more,
the yearly money loss to the hog rails
ers in the South amounts to hundreds
of thousands Of dollars.
The essential points upon which SEN
ator Dial is cndeavoring to get light
are these:
/. The various causes resulting in
the production OF soft and oily pork
in the South with it's consequent money
loss to the people of the South; ~
the time element involved in the pro-
=, ~; i,,o >P fIa otl1
dition in hogs; (3) the steps necessary
In production and steps necessary IN
the elimination Of the oil condition in
hogs.
with the advent Of the cottcn boil
weevil, hog production has suddenly
become an important industry in many
parts OF the South, but there are still
serious difficulties to be overcome be.
fore it can be carried on with any
thing like real and permanent success.
Not only did many farmers after
the boil weevil got into their cotton
fields, begin their new hog marketing
activities with a type Of hog much in
ferior to the northern and wetsernI
type, but they also began Without a
full knowledge of the improved meth
otlr OF feeding and finishing hogs for
market.
Concrctely, it is shown by Senator
Dial that while feeding on Spanish
peanuts, cow peas, yolvet beans, sweet
potatoes and the various kinds of
arasses produces a large, fat, oily hog,
it is not OF the "flrm" or "hard" meat
kind and must necessarily bring q
lower price when placed on the mar
Net ing competition with the .corn-fed
western product. The people In the
South should not rely 80 much upon
The feeds enumerated because Of the
fact that there is also a good protein
feed in fishmeal, tankage, and MIDI
dlings or old process oil meal.
s II cannot emphasize too strongly"
Senator Dial said. "the bad practice
that many of our farmers empiuy. in
turning their young pigs into the pine
woods FOR several months in each year,
where little or no other food is pro-
yided than that which the hogs may
find for themselves! in the woods. These
pigs are thus Improperly nouris
during the growing period and when
at an; age OF about six months they are
turned into tke peanut pastures they
are very much stunted and under
weight. These pig3, at six months