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Show 8T6CK RAISING Grain is not likely to be very high in price this fall. The best price ao far obtained is 80c per bushel, although al-though those who have Turkey-red seed wheat are asking $1 fcr it, and they will probably get It, as the demand de-mand will equal the supply. On account ac-count of this low price, every farmer who can Is buying hogs to fatten and many others would like to get them. They can be turned loose in the stubble stub-ble fields and pick up a good living for several months, and then a couple of months' feeding with ground grain and alfalfa will put them on the market mar-ket In good shape. Grain converted into pork is worth 11.25 a bushel at the present price of live hogs, which la 8c or 9c per pound. Young hogs do not seem to be easy to get at present. The shortage of the corn crop in Kanaaa ought to put hogs on the market there, but unless they were small the freight rates would probably make them too high for the farmers here. Several parties are on the lookout to get In a few car load from adjoining counties. Hut It Is pretty hard for a farmer with only a few dollars to get enough bogs to be of much account. In talking talk-ing over the matter with Frank Beck-with, Beck-with, cashier of the Delta bank, be aatd hla bank would be willing to loan a good farmer with plenty of feed ft ir ccat of U.AUOuat jtecaarr to put blot la the hog business. That Is for every $60 the farmer could put up, the bank would put up $40. This looks like a pretty fair proposition, as It could hardly be expected that the bank would put up all the money and take all the risk, and the farmer make all the profit, except the interest |