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Show SHOW INTERESTS j RfllSERSBF HOGS Importance of Ogden Event Emphasized by Secretary in Charge I Importance of the gdcn livestock show and similar exhibitions to tie farmers and particularly lo the mm In the hog business was emphasized today to-day by Jesse Richard", livestock raise r and secretary of the show in ; statement state-ment regarding the business phases of i the Industry. Discussing 'he present , conditions of the livestock business he said; "It Is a well known fad thai on nc-count nc-count of the high priced feeds the ia.-t ! few years the number of hogs raised i In Ihis territory has dwindled until to-'day to-'day we are producing only thirty percent per-cent of the hogs necessary to Suppl the demand of the local i.nl,m 'plants. This is ;i deplorable fundi- ,tion, because it has been proven beyond be-yond a doubt, that hogs can be grown nnd finished in this territorx Just ..- cheaply as In the hog belt, and that lour climatic conditions here are su-ipeiior su-ipeiior In connection with ho raising than elsewhere. "it has also been demonstrated t..at ihogs raised and finished under our 'conditions are not us susccptablc to (disease and Intestinal troubles as hons raised in the middle West. Now I hat the price of grain hag fal-I fal-I len to the present level. obi hog : breeders and feeders are again turning turn-ing their attention to the r.n-ini; and feeding of hogs as they Know it is : more profitable to market their grain I through feeding It lo hogs, than to put : In upon the market with prices as they are at the present I ' The stock show and fair has long been known aj the biggest aid to the livestock Industry. Swine men realize that the showing of better hogs is an Incentive to the average farmer and feeder to go into the business and raise more and better hogs. W iihln the past few ears more hogs hae been shown at all of our western fairs land stock shows than ever before even I in the face of aderse markets and '. high price of for d "One factor that has been strongly noticed by those In attendance at the I fairs and stock shows of late years lis that the big type of hogK has taken I Its place in the front ranks and Is fail sending the short bodied, short legged j old type hog Into the discard. Several ; factors have caused this Change. One being the fact that the big t.pe hog grows much faster on the name amount of feed than the old type hog. High price of feed of late years hasi 'been a b(g factor In making this change of type. Another factor Is that the big type hog carries more of I the high priced bacon and ham and not so much lard, as the obi type Within the past few years lard substitutes substi-tutes have been put upon the market in competition with lard and at i price less than lard could be produced at This being a fact the breeder has turned his attention to the hogs (instituted (in-stituted of high priced meats and not lard "The breed of hog Is a second consideration con-sideration when It conies to deciding on what hog to raise. It has plainly been proven that there arc good Individual- in all breeds and that the Individual In-dividual is responsible for profit or t loss Instead of the breed ' |