The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-05-25

The prevailing blood in the dairy cattle,
at present, is Jersey, with do1stem ana
Guernsey about even seconds. Most OF the
cows are grades.
One of the good dairy farms on which
about 35 cows are at present being MIXED
has reported a monthly labor cost of $1OO,
feed cost of $225 and all other costs $150. In
winter months the sales run as high at SlZoO
per month, while in summer they have been
as low as $500, when most cows are dry or
in small flow of milk. This too, was be-
fore the days of the creamery.
This farm has Bermuda grass, carpet
grass and other native grasses In the pas
lures They also plant pastures OF cow peas,
sorghums, velvet beans, ETC., which put the
harvesting up to the cows. Velvet bean meal
and corn and cob meal are made OF the
farms products. Shorts, bran and cotton
! seed meal are the only feeds bought.
Several car loads of dairy cows were
shipped into Marion county during the late
months of 1921 and early months OF l9z2
and the demand for more is increasing.
HOGS
| Conditions make Marion county an ideal
hog country. General farming Is so widely
| followed that cheap hog feeds and pastures
! are matters of common knowledge and prac-
tice. No shelters whatever are needed II
the pastures contain trees. The system OF
i letting the hogs harvest the crops Is UNI
versally practiced. There are no frosts or
freezes severe enough to lnJure corn, pea
nuts, potatoes, etc., before the hogs eat them
| off, and very rarely are types OF SOIL found
that are injured by hogs roofing or trampi-
| ing them while wet.
| A few years ago pure bred hogs on Mar
ion county farms were rare. To-Day Ine
conditions are reversed and 1t ls hard to ma
a farmer raising hogs as money crop VINO
does not keep at least pure pred maze.
Poland Chinas, Duroc Jerseys, Hampshlres
and Berkshires predominant in the order
named. The Boys Pig Club members helped
to make this change to pure bred stock.
/ Marion county is the greatest Poland
China hog county in the South. Hogs OF
this breed captured grand championships
this fall at the Southeastern Fair, Atlanta,
the Tri-State Fair, Savannah, Ga, Georgia
State Fair, Macon, Ga, and the Florida
State Fair Jacksonville. In 1919 a Poland
China sow bred and raised in this county by
u c. Herlong, of Micanopy, won a grand
championship at the International Live
Stock Show in Chicago. Grand champion
ships were won by Poland Chinas from this
county at the Florida State Fair in 1913 and
! 1919. a Junior championship at this fair In
i 1920, and a grand championship at the
South Florida Fair in 1921.
u Following is a list of the Poland China
winners:
Grand championship SOW, Southeastern
Fair, Atlanta; Tri-State Fair, Savannah.
Ca; Georgia State Fair, Macon, and Florida
! State Fair, Jacksonville, 1921; grand cham
. lpion boar, at Savannah. and Macon, 1921;
: Junior champion at Atlanta and Jackson
. vile 1920; and grand champion sow and
boar at South Florida Fair, Tampa, 1921,
w. NJ Gist, Mcintosh; grand champion boar
Florida State Fair, 1919 and 1921, w. G.
Blood, Ocala; grand champion boar Florida
State Fair, 1919 and 1921, w. c. Blood
Ocala; grand champion boar, Florida State
| Fair, 1919, T. C. Herlong, Micanopy.
Gist also cleaned up at Tampa and Or
lando. Willis and Ramsey OF Evlnston are
the largest breeders of Duroc Jerseys II
, the county. Anthony Farms, however, have
! large number of Duroc sows and some
splendid boars. They also are large breed
, ers of Poland Chinas.
), 1t il easily possible to raise two htters %
|. pigs a year from each SOW. Like othel
? things in sub-tropical countries they grow
: fast and large. The question of pasturage
which has been mentioned is worked out II
, many ways by different growers. Regular
: rotation systems of planting and hogg1ne
off are used here as elsewhere; and added Il
| this there are frequently surplus OF OF
: grade truck products from the fields o.
. truck that supplement the pastures. Acorns
) hickory nuts and pine mast abound IN wood
? ed sections.
/ There are packing houses in Jacksonville
z land Tampa, Fla, and In Moultrie, Ga, tina
furnish a market For the farmer VIII
4 wishes home cured meat there are col
and projected plan for erecting anothe
1 lat Mcintosh.
A Pig Club boy who has been In this clu
{ work for three years showed several pen
of Duroc Jerseys at the last county tain
D winning over aixtv dollaru IN prezniun&.