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V "ft - - HOGS, SHEEP AND HORSES SPECIAL "N V.; 4 X ' 'i i i I ii i i ii i r r. -tvi - i w .i u rxr j j - - '' t - W vat EASTERN EDITION A Farm and Home Weekly for -K' The Carolinas, Virginia, Qebrgia, and Florida. - FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N.C Vol. XXXII. No. 46. SATURDAmNOVEMBER 17, 1917 rT0 THE Southern farmer, hog-raising has never be X fore presented so attractive a financial . - - -proposition. For over three years the world has been consuming pork products faster than it Mas pro- ducedthem, and today we are facing a shortage world wide in its scope and un $1 a Year ; 5c a Copy Now's the Time to Start the Hog-raising Business rye, peanuts, soy beans, cowpeas, velvet beans and chufas, we have an array of crops that makes us independent of high-priced corn Ex cept as a part of the finishing ra tion. More than this, our climate makes it easily possible to nave one or more of tlies . ... -U. ' ' ' s - - i . ' s , X. . . ' X N. - . .. Wf-f: ' ' . ' ' . V -V s - : - -, - - - x x X ? . .. - . -Jt V X XX- tP?v " u precedented in its acute.- ness. Nor is ths short age merely tempor ary. The number of breeding animals has been greatly depleted and it will be several years, even if peace comes soon,, be fore these can be fully replaced. More over, grains of all kinds are short in quantity, and high in price, and these will, so long as the shortage ex ists, be used for human food rather than for feeding hogs. In a .word, then, hog prices are high and likely to remain so for sev eral years; and, out of this situation; there is afforded the Southern farmer the opportunity of a lifetime. Why? Because the South is largely inde pendent p f high -priced grains in raising hogs. Here is the big fact that means millions to us if we will only take advantage of it. While farmers in the North and West are selling -their brood sows rather than feed them high -priced corn, Southern farmers should be buying brood sows, because we have to feed relatively 'very little corn to oui hogs. In Bermuda grass, bur, white and crimson clover, lespedeza, Abruzzi crops ready for our hogs to harvest every month, every day, in the year. With a good perma nent pasture of Ber muda grass, bur and white cloven plus patches of rye, crimson clov- . er, soy and velvet beans, peanuts and cowpeas to turn in on throughout the year, the Southern farmer is simply in po-' sition to beat the North or West, Europe, or nearly anywhere else at the hpg- raising game. Where one sow has been success fully; kept, let the farmer keejr two; where two have been the rule, four may well be kept; and where four or five the south has need of more draft animals like these have been used, eight or ten may well be contidered. By providing these sows with plenty of crops that they can harvest themselves and by having them bring two litters a year, they may be made one of the surest sources of. net profits we know of. The world is short of meats and fats and is willing to pay dearly for them. ' Let us help in the job of supplying this shortage, and reap a handsome profit . while doing it. DONT FAIL TO READ- Shall We Conserve Female Breeding Stock by Legislative Enactment? . . . . Hedges Defensive and Ornamental . Have a Permanent Pasture for the Hog . . Hard Luck With Hogs ........ A Good Ram Is Three-fourths the Flock . . Applying Livestock Manures to the Land . How to Get the Farm" Work Stock Needed . Regulating the Price of Hogs . . . . . . A Thanksgiving Reunion . Prize Letters Wanted Winter Clothes for the Farmer Pace 3 4 8 9 10 12 14 16 17 24 25 : il. K If i ) i i J f , ; - w ,a 1 1 K 1 I I I 4 1 1 I 5 ii Hi i 'i i ! IL i it : ii ; i: J it ii .1! it. .Si U "1 1:
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