Show HOG AS MORTGAGE LIFTER one great enemy to the industry la cholera eternal vigilance will control disease by GEORGE II 11 GLOVER colorado experiment station there should be and usually is more money made in raising hoga on the farm than other animals aside from cholera hogs are less subject to disease reproduce faster and make better gains per pound of feed con burned the annual increase of horses cattle and sheep ranges from 60 to per cent the increase of bogs should be from BOO to 1 per cent the sow has the advantage in bringing forth two utters a year and arrows several at each litter doctor warrington in chemistry on the farm states that for each pounds of teed consumed the differ ent farm animals make gains as follows cattle nine pounds sheep 11 pounds and pigs 23 pounds pigs then make nearly two and a half times the gain over cattle for the amount of feed consumed the man who hauls hogs to market instead of corn is the one who should make money because of the fact diat hog raising when properly man aged has been so profitable the hog has been styled the mortgage lifter the one enemy to the busness bu is hog cholera no doubt much can be done in controlling cholera by the farmers operating cooperating co in adopting measures which will prevent the of cholera it is up to the farmers themselves on last analysis to con abne cholera on the one farm where it starts by strictly following the advice of sanitary authorities and all work ing together to this end I 1 know of a farmer who kept his hogs healthy or four years while the neighbors all around him were losing their hogs from cholera he did it by an eternal vigilance in keeping infection out and this man made a regular chore of cleaning the hog pens every saturday afternoon |