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most adaptable to Southern conditions.
\ Duroc will be found out for gig
while other breeds lie at the trough |
waiting for their next meal.
The DurOc-Jersey SOW can be secured |
from reliable breeders right at your |
door. A bred gilt weighing between 300
and 400 pounds at ten or twelve months |
of age. and representing the greatest
proven blood lines Of the breed, can be
bought to-day at from $50 to $40. ready
TO. begin production for you within
short time This SOW. we have found
by keeping accurate records. can he
properly and well fed and cared for,
with IA judicious use of pasture, for a
cost of from $40 to $50 per year. count
ing the cost of feeding her through two
sucking periods and also the cost OF
feeding two litterS of pigs, six to each
litter. to ten weeks of age. ut which
time the pigs under the treatment OF
the plan outlined will weigh an average
of 30 pounds each. This is IL very con-
Seryatiye figure. as many OF our pigs
average 65 pounds ut that age. This
cost is figured at present market value
of foods and, of course, would not have
to be paid out where a large part of
the food is produced at home, as it
should and must lie if you are to lie
real hog raiser. This plan includes the
feeding of corn. ground oats. wheat
shorts and tankage, or corn. ground
oats. rice polish and tankage, ut the
rate of three pounds per SOW per day,
besides oat pasture during the preS-
nant period. and increasing this amount
to 10 or II pounds per day, fed half in
the morning and half at night during
the sucking period Each SOW and pigs,
for good results, must be kept to them
selves. free from interference with
other sows and pigs, as well as from
ct er farm animals. The pigs should be
fed separately in Il creep near where
unable to push them away, and given
all they will clean up readily twice a
day from four weeks Of age until
twelve weeks of age, two weeks after
weaning time.
The September pigs then. of which
any good SOW will raise at least six, can
be carried along slowly with a mini
mum of expense by allowing them the
run of Il good oat patch and feeding a
little dry corn each day. and once Il
day Il small amount of slop containing
any good grain mixture with osnkage
or other high protein feed added, one
part to ten Of feed. They can be car
ried in this manner until July 1st.
when your spring pigs. .farrowed IN
March. will be weaned and doing well
and the entire lot can be turned togeth-
! er inte- !. field of early corn and Whip
poorwill peas Here they can he kept
and turned into successive fields of
corn and peas. corn and peanuts. or
| corn with an adjoining patch of early
| sweet potatoes and will be ready for
| market during the high period in Sep
tember, when they will net you 8 cents
or more. Pigs carried along in this
manner and allowed to gather their
| own crops. it is carefully estimated at
present prices Of land, labor and ma
chinery. can be grown to marketable
age ut a cost Of 4 cents a pound. Divid.
ing the yearly upkeep of the SOW into
twelve parts two litters of six pigs
each), YOU have cost Of 81. lie per pig
up to 80 pounds weight. which is a very
conservative estimate i'm every way
Then counting that your fall pigs will
weigh 80 pounds and your spring pigs
80 pounds, you have total of 240(
pounds Of pork netting 8 cents pei
pound, or S215. produced at total cost
of SIG, leaving YOU a profit Of 800
which means you have paid for the SOW
and have S25 left: 1873 1-3 per cent OF
your initial investment of $75 in one
years time. and besides you have thu
SOW left. worth more than she wa.
when you got her. Very much higher
returns can be secured where extra at
tention is given the SOW. making it pos
sible to raise eight or ten pigs instead
of six per litter and still better return.
where Il farmer raises better pigs thar
his neighhors and has chance to sell /
few choice gifts to them at twice theil
pork value. Then. at the end Of tn,
year. the hog-raising farmer hasn'
worked so hard as his cottoh-grOwin:
ncighbor. he has marketed his crops a
a profit instead of having to accept al
actual loss and his soil is in better con
dition each succeeding year. He cal
have a few hogs in addition to a small
er acreage of cash crops better titled
and by changing his hogs from one par
Of the farm to the other. growing tn
crops mentioned. he will gradually bu
surely raise the average of fertilit,
over the entire farm. This plan is no
t. oretical in the least. for we hly
marketed many carloads of pork pro
duced in the manner outlined with. a
times. much greater profits per SOY
than are given here.
Another system. which usually nets
somewhat higher return than the on
just outlined. is to keep enough sows t
produce carload at one time and MAJ
ket Your fall pigs on the April marke,
This means that to he ready for thi
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