Show Best Means of Cutting Cost of Producing Pork Faith on the part of at certain county count agents In pork production has been fully Justl justified ed The Increased number of sows to be bred for early sprInG farrow Is gratifying In the face of an shortage In pig crop rop Between January 1 and August 1 of 1924 87 feeding ceding demonstrations were started In 14 counties Reports on 91 01 periods of 48 of these lions which have baie been completed or orare orare are still runnIng Indicate that the farmers are alive to the possibilities along this sate safe sane and sensible line of at agricultural endeavor The head upon which records ere ere kept for tor an a- a average of 63 days made lw 12 pounds average dally gaIn gaInon ot of on an average feed consumption pounds of teed feed per pounds gaIn DurIng thIs 63 da days s 's they pounds at an average teed feed cost of less than seven seen cents per pound As a result of these demonstrations I most of the thc demonstrators and many of their neighbors have increased the number of hogs raIsed In the vicinity I where such demonstrations have been W. W. W Shay swine exten I Idon don specialist North CarolIna State I college |