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Show farmer can raise a few hogs profitably profitab-ly by the aid of clover or alfalfa, skim milk, potatoes, waste fruit, etc., and by careful selection of breeds which most fully utilize their food we may hope in time to not only supply all our home markets with hams and bacon but also to send 'out a surplus of a very fine quality of these products. The subject of the best and cheapest method of raising hogs in Oregon and Washington Wash-ington deserves a great deal more attention than it has yet received. Oregon Agriculturist. In the above is food for thought that might be conned by our readers with much benefit. Large amounts of bacon and hams are imported to this city, each year, and, of course, the money departs, never to return. The Oregonian is lame.ning tie fact that we arc again importing bacon in considerable quantities to the Pacific Coast. It is unfortunate that we are obliged to do so but it is not strange that such is the case. A year or so ago Oregon and Washington Wash-ington were sending hogs East by the trainload because it paid better to ship them to Omaha or St. Paul than to send them to Portland, Seattle or Tacoma. This was not a paying operation because even with cheap wheat we can not raise hogs, pay freight on them half way across the Continent and then compete com-pete with the cheap corn-fed hogs of the Missouri valley. With wheat at the present price live hogs would have t) sell for seven or eight cents per pound to make it profitable to turn whe.it into pork. Almost every |