Show RAISING KOKK FOR FOB PACKING BY the courtesy of george J need haw bam esq of the union pacific we have been furnished with a clipping from western resources a publication is isred aued at lin lincoln alu nebraska which is a communication written to that journal by general genera E P F test relative to hog raising in colorado and the territories we reproduce at a portion of it it has occurred to we me to ask you to use your valuable paper in ing the hog raiding industry in colorado and the territories I 1 ani aware of the difficulties heretofore actina against it in the past but tram from all I 1 ean cau learn that problem has baa been solved to all intents and purpose in consultation with beveral suc cei saul farmer aru aera 4 of colorado I 1 atu aai advised they are feeding green allatta to hogs successfully in summer and dry in winter with common and other vegetable ad d urain grain for hardening purposes alfalfa allows allowa boss baor to make natural groth groi ih but bat opinions vary as ac to whether it will fatten them like corn V hether it does or not the corn fields of eastern colorado and western nebraska and aad kansas are af sufficiently close to supply auy any defect in alfalfa food be that as it may iu in utah alfalfa and grain are successfully fed to hogs in winter and quite a nuber of carloads of alfalfa led fed cattle from that territory and wyoming have oed in the omaha ji parket it Is excellent feed for cattle sheep and horses with but little labor I 1 am deeply impressed with the importance of the growth growL hof ot the hog raising iadus industry try ju Colu colorado radu wyoming utah and the remaining territories and should you succeed in ia enlisting listing eu we toe far maers generally in ia that section you have succeeded so ao admirably with those of nebraska in other lines it will add to the material wealth and development ot of the whole traus traub missouri region a for places to market the farmei a of colorado and the territories are brost favorably situated as th they ey cin can avail themselves of the markets market s of denver omaha and aad kansas city and tait tier east at chicago chicagus and st louis As yuu you know great packing houses are located at kansas city and omaha and the latter is constantly increasing its plant so rapidly have these citi cities earn increased their they now stand second to the order named as meet meat producing centers oi of the world and at the rate they are in increasing it is possible that thai it ID the coatee coarse of 4 1 few months or years not a live hog will cross the missouri river east beca because tise ot of being absorbed or rather ra tei cut cat up into pork at either or kansas city statistics are riven given showing the vast number of aj hogs in nebraska ano and kansas in contrast with the ama small 11 number in colorado wyoming and utah and the rate of increase in all the states avd and territories named for the year 1887 as compared with 1880 one conclusion is isthan that the hog industry could be made exceedingly prock ai abe e in colorado wyoming and uth laying aside considerations relative to the desirability 0 of pork as an article of diet and viewing it as a product for exportation there is no doubt that hog raising sing coull could be engaged in by the farmers of this terri territory tory with great financial benefit alfalfa or oc lucern as it is more commonly called will serve as food for hogs hoga both in summer and winter for the latter season it would probably be better if made into ensilage in which condition it preserves to a great extent the fresh and succulent character it possesses when freshly cut hogs will grow and fatten rapidly on green lucern though it is claimed that grain should be fed to them tor some weeks before they are killed in order to harden the flesh pork packing and the raising rai tiina of hogs for exportation are industries not eu entirely unknown in this terri tory though the chev 4 are in an infantile state for some years tae wellsville ce op has packed and exported pork some seasons shipping several carloads and george li husler lousler usler esq of this bofty packed last year acar about abou t 70 hogs boss there is no reason why the pork packing industry might not become an important one in this city and other portions of the territory and a means of mater materially iMly increasing the ahe revenue of farmers lucern can here be made to nearly or entirely take the place of corn cornyn tri the great hog raising states and hence may be made a vastly more valuable product even than it now Is |