Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-02 | Page 26 | Hog Production is Urged in Utah

HOG PRODUCTION IS URGED IN UTAH Livestock Men Call Attention to Fact That Now Is Time to Prepare For 1921 Trade. Although the hog production in Utah and Idaho materially increased I during teh past year as a result of aggressive and continued campaign of livestock men and farming experts, ex-perts, the hog business In the Intermountain Inter-mountain country is In Its infancy. So great Is the demand for hoga In these states and so heavy has been the ountput of the packing houses that a market has been provided throughout the past year for every animal shipped to Ogden, the price being higher when traffic dlff. r-entbils, r-entbils, are considered than the pi It i i.nd In Omaha; Kansas city or Chi-j cago. In fact, many hog' have recently re-cently been shipped to ugden from Nebraska. The time to prepare for the hog 1 business for 1921 is right now. ac-l ac-l cording to livestock men. packers and farmers. The selection of l.rood sows I la essential at this time and hundreds of additional good brood BOWS ought to be brought into the intermountain country from the east ami central states. Definite arrangements as to the hoR Industry should be mud' t3 each farmer Then the plan should be j thomunhy and systematically carried thruugh. Through the raising, feeding and j fattening of hogs, each and every farmer can make a very great salvage I from his property Ilalslnjj of hoas Is a means of utilizing what might i otherwise be waste. The profits that are realized from this feature alone are more thnn worthy of consideration, considera-tion, for they are enough to provide M considerable recenue to any farmer, and on many farms this waste, turned Into money through the sale of hogs, has been enough t" buy cloth-Ing cloth-Ing for the entire famll and then I leave something besides for Christ-, mas day. Mgden livestock men have at various vari-ous times particularly urged the ralS' Ing of hogs because of this salvaging. salvag-ing. The suggestion was made a year! ago that If a farmer could not see j hl.s way clear to plant more crops fori the fear of harvesting troubles thai he plant grain and let Hie hogs do the harvesting f..r Kim Some farmers did that and reaped i: a good harvest In this way.