Milford chronicle., 1935-04-19
ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE
In FEEDING HOGS
BY DR.. John N. Eyyard
Formerly Professor Animal Hus-
bandfy Iowa State College

AS | write this hogs are selling in
Chicago for better than $500 per
hundred weight; even discarded sOws
are selling for only about rs cents
under the top OF the market These
prices represent high signs that the
hog business has been and is pick
ing up at a remarkable rate with
the prospect in view that swine pro-
ductiOn next year and even The year
following promises TO be very re-
munerative.
Just appraise the following facts
and judge for yourself: in recent
years we have been seeing apprOxi-
mately 5O,000,000 spring pigs dis
cover America annually and yet in
the spring of 1884 only about 9O00,-
900 sOws farrOwed, which, counting
an upper average of five pigs per
sow would mean 5000, 600 less pigs
than in the preceding years. And
low and behold the Government esti-
mates the 1885 spring pregnant sOws
TO farrOw at 5.000,000 which would
az the most liberal estimate bring
not over 30,000,O00 and more than
likely less than that, 25,00O, 900, or
half the number brought forth an
nually for the most recent five year
period. Yes hogs are looking up,
up, up and they promise to be very
profitable in the biennium to come.
And let us look at the fall pig
crop for a change. The latest five
year period up to 1884 showed an
average production of 2S,000, 600
head each fall, but last year only
l5,O00,000 head came bouncing onto
the pOrcine acres of America. and
this year the fall pig crop is even
less, being materially reduced.
The outlook for corn prices in the
immediate years ahead does not look
nearly so good as now. in fact all
signs, barring another eXtraOrdi-
narily severe drought. indicate that
we will see very wide spread be-
tween corn and hog prices in 1885
and 1886. The foregoing outlook is
made all the more trustworthy be-
cause of the fact that there has been
such wonderful cooperation between
the multitude Of far-seeing hog men
and the Government as regards con-
troll of production.
The brightest hog raising brains
in the country are OYerjoyed because
OF the remarkable prospects for ex-
traordinary hog profits in the i'm (
mediate years right before us.
But one must remember that hogs. I
to make profits on a grand scale, 1
must be literally fed on adequate |
rations which are economic. In this /
connection the crop growing range /
permitted by the Government favors /
among other crops the production
Of Americas fastest and most pOp- /
ular. rapidly growing field crop or
namely soy beans. Soy beans have
been taking the country by storm
because they have paid eXtraordi-
narily well per acre in the most re-
cent years. But yet il is hazardous
70 feed threshed soy beans, unmilled.
70 hogs because of the treacherous
iOn pork problem. On the other
land soy bean nd MA fssE lflgh -
nllled from the farm grown soy
lean seed is an extraordinary ef-
lclent high protein supplement /
When fed with simple and adequate
mixture, as corn balaucer
thousands upon thousands of
in recent years have boosted
helr soy bean growing ventures by
elling their soy beans to the mills j
nd feeding mineralized soy bean
II meal TO balance their farm ,
rains. Mineralized soy bean oil
zeal produces a hard. firm Dork J
lghly acceptable TO the packers and
le consuming public. all of which
to the profitable benefit of $
'y bean acres everywhere in the !
. S. A. }