Show LIVESTOCK LIVE STOC STOCK PORK PRODUCTION PROBLEMS IS SOLVED Hogs flogs are found In every county in fn the lie United States In some cases the number Is la limited to t a very few tew which are usually grown In the back backyards backyards backyards yards where they are maintained and fattened from waste products such as scraps from the table dish water etc In other Instances we find hogs produced In large numbers the sale of which affords the chief Income points out Pro Prof L V Starkey chief of the animal husbandry division at Clemson college It Is a significant fact that the larger or ur more mature a hog gets the more expensive are the gains This Is caused by the ability of the younger animal to consume a lar larger er amount of food In proportion to his body and partly because the youn younger er animal contains a higher per cent of water In the gains which It makes The economy with which pork can be produced explains Starkey depends largely upon th the forages which are available It If In dry lot as much as five pounds of concentrates may be necessary to pro pro- produce produce duce uce one pound of ot pork If It on good Joy beans It Is possible to produce a pound of pork from a pound of corn these figures show beyond a doubt that forages must be used If It pork pro pro- production production production Is profitable Hogs Bogs suffer sutTer more frequently from troI Inadequate rations than do any other class of live stock This Is because they grow more rapidly The stunted pIg Is more common than the stunted calf or colt Hogs frequently suffer from a lack of ot minerals and also alsofrom alsofrom alsofrom from a lack of ot protein This Is large large- largely largely largely ly caused by the fact tact that they are frequently raised primarily on con con- concentrates concentrates from the cereal grains Whenever they have pasture such BI as rape or soy beans beaus they usually balance their ration for tor forage crops e a-e usual usually ly Iy rich In both protein and minerals It If forage crops happen to be Ire lack lack- lackIng lacking ing at any time during the year a aI aI I mineral mixture may be made by us- us usIng us using ing lug equal parts of ground limestone salt and bone meal This should be bek k kept pt before the porkers at all times |