Show I WELL-BRED WELL HOGS GIVE BETTER RESULTS THAN ANY OTHER BRANCH OF LIVE STOCK f. f n r f v hn adS v A 1 C 11 r JAS 1 fi t SPLENDID SPECIMEN OF BROOD SOW No 1 branch of oC stock live f farming gives better results than Ihan the raising raiding of well-bred well swine when conducted with witha a reasonable amount of Intelligence The hog ho Is one ont of the most Important animals to raise mise on the farm either for meat or for profit and no farm Is complete unless some hogs are kept to aid In the modern method of farm farm- m- m ipg The farmers of the South and md West Vest awakening to the merits of the hog tog are rapidly Increasing their output output output out out- put of pork and their bank banI accounts account The hog requires less labor less equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment less capital and males makes greater grenter gains per pel hundred pounds of concentrates concentrates concentrates concen concen- than any other farm animal and reproduces himself faster and amI In greater numbers and returns the money Invested Invented more quickly than any other oilier farm animal except poultry In the trucking in and mixed farming sections of the United States hogs are used to consume various unmarketable substances The value of milk is 13 j J I known on every farm although it may not be full fully appreciated and any anyone one who has fed pigs knows the keen appetite appetite appetite ap ap- ap- ap petite PY have for milk mille and Its prod prod- J In the neighborhood of many large dairies pork production has become become become be be- come a very prominent and lucrative supplement to the dairy Industry The II hog Is also a larS large factor iii cheapening cheapen cheapen- ing fug the production of beef Hogs Dogs are I placed In the cattle feed lots to utilize the corn and other feeds which the I cattle have failed to digest and which otherwise se would be wasted Dogs Hogs following following fol fol- lowing steers in many cases have increased Increased increased in In- creased the profit per steer by from G C to 9 0 Farmers and hotel and restaurant restaurant ant owners are using kitchen refuse I to produce s salable lable pork In fact as a consumer of b products by-products the hog has no rival However this propensity In many instances is IR being taken unfair advantage tage of through ignorance and lack of care care Milk products animal offal etc which contain disease germs especially especial especial- ly those of tuberculosis are given to hogs This practice not only results In spreading disease but causes loss inthe Inthe in inthe the hogs themselves through condemnation condemnation naU nation ri at slaughter Hog Growing Sections The first place in hog raising in the United States is id easily with the corn- corn rowing ro sections where corn is the I grain thought of when the fattening fatten futten- ing lug of hogs is considered It is hower however how how- ever er fallacious to argue that hog raising raising raising rais rais- ing will I not Ot give profitable returns outside out side Ide of the corn belt The rho corn belt has great advantages for economical port pork production but it also has Its dis dis- advantages es The cheapness and abundance abundance dance of or corn In this section have often leer farmers to use It as t the te le exclusive exclusive exclusive ex ex- grain feed Breeding stock so fed docs does not thrive well and is not so prolific as when given a varied ration a gad and when used for fattening an nn exclusive exclusive exclusive ex ex- corn diet Is not generally prof prof- The work of the agrI agricultural colleges and amI experiment stations during durIn during dur dur- In ing recent years ears has done much touch to show breeders and feeders the undesirability ability of this practice and the In In- crem creasing ing price of corn has forced farmers farmers farm farm- I ers to economize In its use as much as possible I The few states comprising the corn cornI l I belt are th the source of supply for ai n a ni nj j i j great amount of swIne s products espe- espe I 1 daily hams and bacon buron that are c ui u- u j i I ned In other portions of the coun- coun j j I try Yet the advantages of these corn corn- I belt states are little If at all ull superior to those of many others outside of that district The South has Ims an abundance of vegetation Cowpeas Cowpens so soy beans velvet et beans and peanuts are leguminous nou C cops ops ops peculiar to that sec section which nave uve great value In pig raising raining I j I The East Fast is peculiarly adapted to toj toI j I j hog raising in view of the fact that markets for fOl fresh pork porI and cured products may be found in local communities communities com com- as well as In the larger cities and the various coast resorts As regards regards re re- gards Bards feeds corn is being grown successfully suc sue In the East and In some sections sec sec- the avera average e yield per acre i is greater than that of the middle West Clover blue grass gruss and many other forage forage forage for for- age crops especially adapted for swine swIn production grow rapidly In nearly eYer every section of the East In the truckIng trucking truckIng truck- truck Ing sections there Is wasted annually a vast quantity of unmarketable products products products prod prod- that might be he used with profit In feeding hogs TIle The dairy districts offer an advantage to the hog raiser by furnishing such b products by-products as skim milk mille and bu buttermilk ill which are especially especIally espe espe- dally relished and profitably utilized by hy growing pigs In the extreme West Vest the alfalfa of the Irrigated valleys and the clover of the coast districts offer otTer a splendid foundation for successful pork pori production production production tion In Ito most of these regions there theres there's is s 's an abundance of oC small grain particularly particularly partir- partir barley that may often be f fed economically while In some localities corn coin is a successful crop Location of Farm for Hogs The selection of a region is not of paramount importance Jn In hog raising In the United States for swine swin are successfully successfully successfully suc suc- and profitably grown In pr practically practically c- c all nIl localities and on almost any type of soil still if the breeder is free freeto freeto to choose a location the following points should hould be he considered An Ideal location Is on a well well- drained f farm rm possessing possessing a rich soil soH that will produce grasses and other fora forage e as ns well as the grains needed for fattening hogs This Thi does not mean howe er that only those farmers holdIng holdIng hold- hold holding Ing rich level le lands should raise hogs hogg for as a matter of fact hogs are most eH easily ily handled on farms that are somewhat hat rolling It i an n advantage vantage to locate In a hob hog raising raising community There are many mane small problems problems in in management which cannot be touched upon in a general discussion of hog raisin raising but they may be he learned through actual experience In ones one's own community In such cases cases the older breeders have for a u long time lime been heen In contact with local conditions and a new man may profit by their experiences without spending several years cars acquiring on one oat of his own |