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LIVE STOCK AND DAIR.Y.
How to Succeed With Pure-Bred Hogs.
There's a Way to Make Them Yield Better Returns Than the Razor-
Back Rail Splitter Kind.
Why grow well-bred hogs? That
is a question those who have not
tried them ask, and it is right they
should ask it. One would be making
for the poor-house if he did not make
it a rule to ask what he was to gain
by parting with his money. A man
recently wrote to me, complaining
that he bought a pair of registered
pigs, had bred them, and now found
it impossible to sell two pigs for
what he had given for one: His
trouble was that he seemed to im
agine that registered pigs are raised
only to sell to some other breeder
and that would-be breeders will start
out on a still hunt and keep going
till they find registered pigs. The
man he had bought from advertised
the fact that he had registered pigs
for sale, and sold the pair mention-
ed tO tue COiuyiitiiiius, uujroj. aixu. isow
many more to other men.
The Good 'Advertiser Finds Good
- Buyers . " -
Men have raised registered hogs a
large part of their lives and made
good money, selling them for breed
ing purposes, without ever selling
one in their own neighborhood. May
be they had neighbors who seoffed
at the raiser "of registered stock for
being so foolish as to waste his
monev that , way, and then tried to
trade hogs with him. On their part.
the breeders wisely spent a little
monev for advertising; and sold all
the registered hogs they could grow,
and sold them at prices that paid
them well for their progressive ideas
and for the care given them. They
knew their neighbors well enough to
know that they did -not appreciate
i the advantages well bred hogs ' give
a man. They also knew that there
are always willing buyers of really
i v i i ; 'n il x. ' XL - A.
gooa live siock ana mat me way iu
find them is to advertise in some
practical paper that reaches - that
class. ' ...
Advertising is not the difficult
thing it is sometimes supposed to
be. Any agricultural paper that is
liberal minded enough to do business
in a business-like way understands
that it must get its advertisers busi
ness or they will not continue to ad
vertise; and the paper will have
some person to aid those who are in
experienced with advertising. The
would-be 'seller, of course, must have
enough education to write an intelli
gent letter in response to those who
answer his advertisemeits; but that
is about all that is required." If
much stock is to be sold, consider
able informntirm nhnut it mti hfl semt
out in printed form. This reduces
the amount of writing that would
otherwise be necessary.
UTiy a Single Hog Sometimes Sells
for as Much as a Farm.
It would be a serious mistake to
imagine that the only thing regis
tered hogs are good for is to sell to
other men for breeding purposes.
The fact that a hog is registered in
a responsible registry association
shows that it has good ancestry and
that it is reasonable to suppose that
the hog to be purchased will have
tne qualities of its ancestors. Each
generation possessing good qualities
that
makes it surer that the last one will
have good qualities. Sometimes we
nna a hog that is very good indi-
-uuany, mat is a half-breed; hut
ms offspring - may take after his
scrub ancestors or after his ancestors
of good qualities, and it is only by
stage where gains in weight can be
made economically. : The manage
ment each day forms one link in the
chain that takes the hog to the block
successfully. If any link is weak the
chain must be weak, and the hog is
not taken Z to the block with much
success, if scrub hogs are used and
getting good ancestors on both sides ucts not maat it is unreasonable
back for many generations that we tn R1innn(!a tW vnnA Mn t
can be certain that our chances are raised cheaply. Tne pure-bred
favorable of getting pigs that will de- stock has
born with it the decided
yelop into something good. We can tendency to make much choice pork
look at a hog and see what pork- from a amount of feed, and
making qualities it possesses, but we this is what the purchaser of high
cannot look at it and see what ances- v,ntra MXra -r. i,a. )Ma
tors-it has; and till we do know what Die nrleM for hrftftders T
ancestors it has, we cannot do more 1
than guess what power it has of . V
transmitting its good qualities to its 14 takes much time and money to
offspring. We may guess right and develoP excellence in a herd and then
we may not. ; Ax it as part of that herd's type so
The eood Qualities a reeisterftd mat 11 vnl1 e reproduced witn mucn
hog has individually and the long certainty in the offspring, and no
line of ancestors possessing the good man should begrudge the good prices
Qualities it has (which is but anoth- gn tne oreeaer wno nas me pao-
er way of stating what chances it has ence and skiU to develop quality--
of transmittine eood Qualities often reauy create it ana nx it so otners
make a single hog sell for as much oenenc Dy it. Alter mat excei
as a good farm. The men who pay lence has been so fixed that the herd
these big prices are the ones who bPeed true' then alm0st anybody
have eiven much time to breeding can muiupiy mat excellence merely
superior hogs and who are in a posi- , . "T- . i
tion to appreciate what a hog's - xmsJAatier wurls V? Kmu
chances of transmitting its good the average f armer can do with most
success, ne can easily graae up nis
V
mi all ties are.. Tho fact that thev
hark their liidmfiTit anrt ftriAT1A herd so that for mere pork produc
with their own money ought to be tlon the membersof the herd will do
eood evidence for thfl inATneriftnced. I pracucany as wen as tne pure-oreas.
that others will not go far wrong in If a -man is ted b bis Personal
warrantAd hv thAir individual ftirP11Ttl I under which he works to breed pure
RtnTlPAa I U1"u' uuSa I-IO Will UUU 11. piUUMUlCi
out it must De connected wun aaver-
How a Good Boar Makes Money for tising in Order to make sales to men
His User. who will pay good prices for good
. . . hogs. Still, the average-farmer will
Suppose a man wants to get better . V . '
f. . . . j do better to use pure-blood boars to
blood in his swine herd, and that he
pays $10 or $50 for a boar. If the
use of such a boar should put the
extra value of only $1 into each of
the pigs he would get, how! long
grade up his herd. He should resist
the temptation to use a nice looking
grade after a year or two, instead of
a pure-blood boar. It can be demon
strated as certainly " as the rules of
o o t rJT,i &r addition are right, that an inferior
profit? Suppose that each litter has T . -J . k.--
only five pigs, that makes a gain of
pure-blood is better for breeding pur
poses than a fine looking grade hOg.
$5 for each litter Bach pig will be eil? ancestors make the difference
worm more as porK man scruo pigs
would be, and each gilt will be worth
in their value as breeders. That
more for breeding purposes than nnt -A k.,,,. nnre.
&uiuu Biles wuum u. ored for breeding purposes. Use a
oi $ per . pig wueu r ia ueveiuyea is
certainly a very low estimate, and
therefore all conclusions based on
such an assumption must be very
conservative.
Some Possible Mistakes.
good one. .
Another thing the average farmer
should remember is1 that he shoud
not mix breeds, but keep grading up
by getting new blood of the pure
breed he starts to breed up with in
Possibly somebody may. recall that the first place. This will be better
somebody else did not succeed in ior mm; ana m me eua u wm u
making monev hv raisine well-bred better for Dreeaers oi pure-Diooa
hogs, but it does not follow that it stocK, since it maxes me purcnaser
was the fault of the good breeding, prosper in a way almost any farmer
Maybe the hogs were fed from the can afford. All who buy pure-bred
rHh ton mnch whilA thAv should have bogs must prosper pretty generally,
been harvesting other pork-making even those who buy pure blood to
nrnns that would have saved corn, raise grades, Derore me ureeaer ui
MavhA thA trouble was that no corn registered nogs cau uuye tu yieu
was fed. A very large part of a Seven Rules in Hog Raising.
hog's development should come from . , -
elsewhere than the corn crib, while To sum up, I would say:
the hAt markAt oondition. or the (1) Let those who have the neces
finish for market, should come from sary qualities ana tne ngnt exterior
thA nrh MarhA the reason the man circumstances breed registereastocK
fn witii won-Trorf Iiom k that (2) THose larmers wno ior any
the pigs were not farrowed at a time reason cannot do that, let them
that would enable them to develop on grade up their herds by the jise of
nhflan r.rtT.v.Tnnir ftrons hut the pure-blood sires every year ior an
hroAintr wmiid Tiot he to blame- business; and stick to the pure breed
Maybe failure came from pampering they first start with, never, crossing
TTTolT-hr hntra ton mno.h shut- With anotner pure oreeu. .
we them tin in small Dens where (3) Tne preea aioue
they could not get exercise or a va- success; proper feeding and care
riety of feed and ) giving them too must go .with good blood for really
much corn till their general healm superior result.
a a email uttArs nf wAak (4) Keep expenses down In al
pigs resulted; but that would not be
oU of tho prm1 blond. too mucn muuejr uj
If fnf Iiiia AQTYIO " frftTn Tint breeding stocK.
I.. ,jumoBt nf tio l,nro (51 UO not auempi mu.
along rapidly to market size and sell-
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ing tnem oeiore mey . yaeu uwiuw-u-.,,
Out
EASIEST TO CLEAII
. "wn auu hub uuiavrgua pieces ui utuers.
: AU dairy seDar-
ators except the
Tabular have bowls
fiUed with com
plicated con trap
lions that make an -endless
and tire
some amount o f
labor in the kitchen
twice a day.
The 3-pieee Tub
ular bowl Out No. 1
can be washed in
three minutes.
The other kinds
are about equal to
washing: dfshes
for three dozen
people twice a day.
WnnMTil.l.k
" J J U IU1U&
Or imnonfrio. annh a aw Mti.. wlf.
every dayt Of course, you wouldn't.
Kcmember this one exclusive
rentage of Tubular Separator tod
o that we have been making them
28 years,lmprovinsf them in every
respect possible keepin s them
so far ahead of others that all ,
e ask is a compar
on by inspection
r actual test We
- guarantee
; they will skim
cleaner a r e
easier to clean
run
eas-J
ler
or no
sale.
Write for Catalog- No. ?33 today. It will Interest von.
The SHARPLES SEPARATOR Co?
West Chester. Penna. .
Toronto. Can., San Francisco. Calif., Chicago, IU.
periehce bas shown the wisdom of it.
(6) Expect to have ups and downs
in the hog business, just as in rais
ing cotton or corn; but expect on the
whole to net better profits fron it.
(7) use the corn crio ior little
more than to finish the hogs off with,
and be sure to finish them off if they
are to go on a discriminating mar
ket. Local butchers do not always
discriminate in the quality of pork.
Are Milking Machines Practical?
Messrs. Editors: Do you think any
milking machine has proved practi
cal? If so, what make and where
can it be bought?
ZACH GRIFFING.
Transylvania, La.
Editorial Answer: As to the
milking machine, the conserva
tive ones are in a state of
doubt. Some experiment u stations
and some private dairymen say they
are all right, or that they are more
good than bad ; while others do not
think so highly of them. The writer,
has not had any experience with
them, and . can only report the ex
perience of others. Doubtless much
depends on the man using a milking
machine as to whether the machine
will prove a success. More intelli
gence and carefulness are heeded to
operate a milking machine success
fully .than for hand milking. , It
seems, that, at the worst, the milk
ing machine is nearer a success to
day than the self-binder was when
it was first put on the market; but
how rapidly the machine will be im
proved remains tor the future to
show. ' r-,
In proportion -.that' you, Mr. Dairy
man, like money, in that proportion
should you aim to have a pasture
consisting of a mixture of pasture
plants, to give luxuriant grazing for
a Jarge part of the year. Use plants
that will stand dry weather," plants
that stand cold weather and others
that will stand hot weather. If
tuGi G cxj. any yuuny uraiueu pans id
the pasture, use such plants there
as will, do well where the land Is
moist or seepy. Till this is done, do
not imagine that the pasture Is. mak
ing the money it should be.