Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-03-30 | Page 4 | Where Pigs Do Better than Babies

j - WHERE PIGS DO BETTER THAN BABIES. H Hj Down in the Grand Valley of Colorado and not a great dis- H tance from 'Grand Junction, the people are raising pigs and those H who are, engaged in the industry have found it profitable. Some Hl statistics presented by the farmers have led the Grand Junction H News to assert that a baby pig in Grand Valley has eight times as H much chance of living to maturity, or until it meets an untimely H death, as a human baby in New York City. One baby out of H twentj' die in infancy in New York, while only one pig out of 175 H born in the intermountain country dies. . H Some time ago the Standard directed attention to the profits H in the hog business. Since then there has been more interest in the H industry shown by our farmers, and tne number of swine in this H region is on the increase. But there still is much room for growth H of the industry. The local packing plant offers a cash market for H all hogs produced in Utah and southern Idaho, and yet our manu- H facturers of hams and bacons arc forced to send to Nebraska, Hj Kansas and other corn states for a big percentage of the hogs Hl killed in the packing house. Hl The sow is a multiparous animal and' twice a year an average Ht of six babies arrive in her pen. Within a short time after birth, HJ the pigs arc capable of being self-sustaining in an alfalfa fiel'd and H in less than a year they develop into good-sized stockers, com- Hl manding more money than sheep. H In this region, where alfalfa has its best growth and where hog H cholera is almost unknown under ordinary sanitation, there is no H more profitable undertaking for the farmer than that of hog Hi raising.