Davis County Clipper | 1917-11-16 | Page 7 | Large Pig Profits Made in Minnesota

LARGE PIG PROFITS MADE IN MINNESOTA letting animals gather their own feed found economical and satisfactory with the returns amounting to five cents a minute tor for the time spent A J mcguire ot of the university of minnesota found that raising pigs every year was the most profitable work the men did on his farm last year the pigs were raised figures completed at the end of the year s show how with one hours time a day at the prices for pigs now the returns this year on this hours time was nearly 3 an hour the reduction of work to a min mimi Is the method th that at the mcguere farm uses to increase the return on the labor the pigs collect their own feed in the spring and summer from rape and alfalfa fields and in tile the fall aill they gather the feed to prepare them tor for market by hogging down a field of 15 acres ot of corn eight acres of rape find and alfalfa kelp keep the pigs and the brood sows bows in the summer furnishing in a fall fair season all the feed they will eat in september the pigs ahre are turned into a 15 acre field of corn beside which I 1 Is a fouracre four acre rape neld field the sows bows that are to be kept over during the winter lliter i tire are left to clean up tbt waste after the pigs piga are marketed mr mcguire finds that letting the pi pigs s do their own work Is just as satisfactory is and economical and much more profitable ue he even arranges the winter quarters so that as little attention as possible may be required by the BOWS straw sheds make good 1 l shelters elters tor for them and tile corn cribs and feed boxes are placed as near the sheds as possible