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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
the universal failures of all amateur
farming and the negative results of 98
per cent of all "experiments." Wheat
is grown in great bulk where every farm
hand in the district knows precisely how
it is done. Potatoes are grown with
profit not necessarily where they grow
best, but where the details are standard
ized and become common practice and
knowledge. So it is with cotton in
Marlboro County, S. C, Kocky Ford
melons in Colorado, peaches in Fort Val
ley and Southern Pines, apples in Alber
marle, and horses in Warrenton.
To raise hogs in a section of Illinois
where nothing else but hogs are raised,
is as simple and inevitable as making
shoes in Lynn or rails in Pittsburg or
lace in Brussels. '
It is not necessarily because these
places are ordained by nature for these
industries. It is simple because a
method of conducting them that is pro
fitable and has first been demonstrated,
. and then, simplified and standardized
and made common property in those
places. Experiments, great skill, in
ventiveness the qualities of , the genius
and pioneer are no longer needed. The
information how to make money in each
of those localities in those particular
games is part of the atmosphere it per
vades the banks, the labor, the clerks,
and the collective mind of the neighbor
hood. All that is needed is plain busi
ness acumen and industry.
And industry is all most people can
bring to any problem.
Xow, coming back to pigs.
The country needs pigs. The world
will need pigs for a generation.
In other words, it is common knowl
edge that there is big money in pigs.
But we have seen that they can be
come an industry only where the exact
method of raising them has become es
tablished and is common information.
To invite any man to attempt it upon a
theoretical or book plan, is to invite fail
ure. In other words, a community of
pig farmers must always have and al
ways will merely make a Chinese copy
of some other paying pig farm close by.
Observe, I said paying. Pamphlets,
demonstrations, exhortations on how to
raise pigs is of no avail. The pith and
heart of the .whole matter lies in the bal
ance sheet. Champion pigs, beautiful
pigs, sublime pigs, are of no avail. By
the inevitable underground channel the
neighbors know the final profit and loss.
If it bo a profit, no further inducement
is needed. He will pry about and make
his own Chinese copy.
These are the facts.
It follows that if any man interested
in the welfare of the republic, or a given
community, desires to successfully in
troduce the growing of hogs (or any
other thing for that matter) he might
as well discard the bulletin method, the
exhortation method, even the "demon
stration of how" method. He must
put up his cold cash and proceed to do it
until he has the profit per year to show.
Then it is all done. The method that
brought the profit is the method that will
. be copied . . .
Who ever did such a thing?
I'll tell you who.
Charlie Williams over here on the road
between Aberdeen and Southern Pines.
The problem he had ' was universal.
Could he -grow pigs at all? That was
determined first. He could. Because
the sandy soil made grazing possible all
winter, and the year around. While in
the clay, a winter pasture is a mud pie .
Very good.
All the experts in the country were
called in to determine what nobody on
earth knows how many acres a man
and his family and a team of mules can
handle in a given place. How it should
be divided, and in what planted to pro
vide eternal pasture, and rotation in each
individual pasture? 1 How many ;sows
can provide pigs to exactly consume the
harvest ?
Friends, this is no exact science. It
is an experimental proposition. And the
answer is not to be read in hogs. For
anyone can buy skimmed milk and raise
prize hogs. It is to be read in dollars
and cents . And not a soul will follow
the lead until the etfact formula is
worked out in practice under their
noses and not on paper.
Let us say at once that when the De
partment of Agriculture and Don Gray
(who is the best in the business) and
the hog masters had laid out the plan,
and Leonard Tufts had put. up the
money, and it was all planted and
worked according to the best possible
theory that it was financial failure.
Well, why write about it?
Because this is the most important
point of all. No possible existing ad
vice or formula can institute a business
in a new neighborhood. And the old
idea that all anyone needed to raise
hogs was expert advice on how to raise
hogs is exploded as the Divine Eight
of Kings.
The hogs are not the thing. Williams
got hog, God knows. The money profit
is the thing. And that cannot be taught
nor provided in a year.
The revolutionary aspect of this Wil
liams proposition is that they went to
work and changed every detail that
seemed to interfere with the paying end.
Sweet potatoes and peanuts cost too
much. Chufers were established. Ev
ery effort was made to insure the hogs
gathering their own food. The formula
was changed to fit the facts. A loss en
sued the following year. Cotton was
introduced on six of the sixty acres
found to be the proper size for the
outfit. It Avas a money crop to cash in
the increased fertility of the land.
And so with a new division of fields,
a new rotation of crops, eight sows and
a boar, the game was tried a third time.
And this time the answer was found.
A certified public accountant stayed with
the game, and on November 1st, 1918,
lie sounded the advance and heralded suc
cess with a statement showing an exact
net profit to Williams 'and his two mules
and sixty acres of
Cash $1335.92
Keep of 2 cows 230
Keep of chickens 30
Complete garden 100
All meat supplied family
for one year 140
Profit to Chas. Williams $1935.92
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