The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1923-08-17

the milk supply should stop at fou'
tons. The farmers could go on i'm
proving their herds, as to quantity
and as to quality. Every family IL
the valley would be prosperous.
Then There's the Hog
The public service corporations OF
this state are lending their influ.
ence to the movement Off converting
hay and grain into cheese, butter,
beef, pork, poultry and eggs. The
reason for this stand is clear enough
The prosperity of these companies
results from the prosperity of the
people whom they serve. If they
can help to make the farmers mare
prosperous, they will become more
prosperous themselves. That is the
reason why big corporations like the
Idaho Power company support the
propaganda for more pigs, poultry
anddairy COW, The Idaho Power
company has an official periodical,
THE Electrikat,' edited by my
friend, e. G. Kiersted, OF Boise. Mr..
Kiersted is a broad minded and YER
satile man who has a clear concep-
ton of the various problems con-
fronting our state. / take the liber-
ty to quote from one of the articles
appearing in the current number of
his attractive and interesting little
magazine:
In modern agricultural methods
there is practically no farm that is
complete without some hogs, and, of
all the branches of livestock on the
farm, the raising of wellbred swine,
II conducted in a reasonably intelli-
gent way, will produce the maximum
results for the labor required. The
hog Is n of the most important an
imals about the farm, either from
the standpoint of food for the home
or for profit. The farmers in this
sectin of the country are rapidly
awakening to the merits of this ami
NAL, which is seen by the rapid in
crease in output of pork. According
the Department of Agriculture,
the hog requires less labor, less
equipment, less capital, and makes
gains rer hundred pounds of
concentrates than any other farm
animal, ~reproduces itself faster and
m greater numbers, and returns the
money invested more quickly than
any other far mammal, except 'poul-
try
1.-THE hog converts much of our
corn crop, 80 to 40 per cen annual
y, into a concentrated food, and N
his work of concentration he is 70
He is an efficient user of
eed. 1t takes about six pounds OF
lay to produce a pound of lamb
live weight), ten pounds of hay
md ten pounds of corn to make a
of beef, and Sc pounds Of
orn for a pound of pork. Hogs are
frequently used to hog down or
larvest crops, and in this way they
ave the labor of harvesting"
And now, just a few short quota
ions from the article:
" If all the corn grown in Iowa
a a year were loaded on one freight
the train would be so long
aht theengineer would be blowing
whistle in Boston while the zeal
rakeman was climbing on the ca
cose in San Francisco. Every day
Iowa hog makes his owner a
lillion dollars. Every year the
orn crop brings Iowa 1898, 100000
'hy, the Iowa hen produces more
ealth annually by five million dol ,
RS than all the citrus fruit of Cali \
Commenting upon the production h
corr in Idaho: b
"In 1920, $4,000 acres had been 9
1T in and the average yield was 2,
rty bushels per acre. 1t must be a
stinctly noted hat these averages h
clude both irrigated and dry .
rms. " 81
'The largest profit in hogs is re- fl