Show WIDE TERRITORY TO RAISE SWINE Hogs Can Be Grown Profitably in Different Sections of United States ADVANTAGES OF CORN BELT South Has Great Abundance of Crops Which Have Large Value In RaisIng Raising Rais- Rais alsIng als Ing Pigs Pigs East East Also Is Peculiarly Peculiarly Harly Adapted to Industry Prepared by b the United States States Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of ot Agriculture The first place In hog raising In the United States Slates Is easily with the corn corn- growing sections where corn Is the first grain thought of when the fattening fattening fat fat- of hogs Is considered It Is however fallacious to argue that hog raising will not give ghe profitable returns outside of ot the corn belt The corn belt has great advantages for econom econom- economical ical pork production but It also has Its disadvantages The cheapness and abundance of corn com In this section have often led farmers to use it as the exclusive exclusive ex ex- e grain feed Breeding stock so fed does not thrive well and Is not so prolific as when given a varied ratIon ration ration ra ra- ra- ra tion and when used for fattening an exclusive corn diet Is not generally generall- profitable Source of Supply The few states comprising the corn belt are the source of supply for a great amount of swine products especially especially espe espe- I hams and bacon that are con con- In tn other portions of the coun i try Yet the advantages of these corn corn- belt states are little If it at all superior to those of ot many others outside o of that district The South has an j i ance of of vegetation Cowpeas Cowpens soy beans velvet beans and peanuts are leguminous crops peculiar to that thai section which have great value In pig raising Corn grows readily In nil all parts of ot the South and In the subtropical subtropical sub sub- tropical sections the experience of ot feeders with cassava seems to Indicate Indi cute cate that It has considerable value for pork production IH In addition there is la generally an abundant water supply the climate Is mild mUd and there Is t n f long period during which green fee feed is is- Isn available n all able thus the expense of shelter shelter shelter shel shel- ter and winter whiter fee feeding Is greatly les less served Hog Raising in East The East Is peculiarly adapted to hog raising In In view of the fact that markets for fresh pork and cured products may be found In local com communities com com- as well as In the larger cities and the thc various arIous coast resorts As regards feeds corn Is being grown successfully In the East and In some sections the average yield per acre Is greater reater than that of oC the middle West Clover blue grass and man many other forage crops especially adapted for swine production grow grog rapidly In nearly nearly nearly near near- ly ever every section of the East In the trucking sections there Is wasted annually annually an an- of unmarketable unmarketable a n nast vast ast quantity able products that might knight be used with profit profit profit-in In feeding hogs In the extreme West the alfalfa of the irrigated valle valleys s 's and the clover of the coast districts offer a splendid for successful pork foundation pro pro- In most of these regions there Is an abundance of ot small grain particularly barley that ma may of often ten be beed fed ed economically while In some localities localItIes localities local local- corn Is a successful crop |