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, . - t , -v . i4tViF -5"iJ" a.yi!ta.g.tife-i4iigi.!..i-.t i .... t, P . . I ! m ' . HOG AND GRAZING CROPS SPECIAL ? " v.' r-' ' - hM f i - J- EASTERN EDITION A Farm and Home Weekly fore The Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C Vol. XXXV. No. 38. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1920 $1 a Year; 5c a Copy ZVy-.. 0... ':-.., ' , " V . 'y'yVOvV. i SSS,SSTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSffSSSSSSSSSSSStr . . 7.7A Forage Crops Give Southern Farmers Edge in Hog Raising will, become .a great hog-growing section, not by reason of its big crops of corn, important as they are, but because it can grow a variety of; forage crops throughout the year that, supplemented with sitill amounts of grain, will produce pork at a lower cost than it can be pro faced anywhere else in the -United States. Forage crops give the Southern farmer the edge the undersold tn the hog-raising game. TAij 7 be:: irf keenly rtealized when normal conditions force the Southern farmer toiiwfhu f hogs in competition with those grown in the orn BeK. The foragecrop pig takes care of himself in making his growth and U'U1 sell at a profit as a-feeder,' or, finished on a field of com and beans, c!m mcet the competition in the markets of the most efficiently fed hog from commercial feeding plants. He may not top the market as often but le has lcd p much less pensive Jife and will net his owner a better profit. VV tW TyV, yUio Urn vct,it, uni twii, w " . r - hogs to grace in winter and spring; oats, Bermuda grass, sorghum, cowpeas, Uspedeza and other crops in summer; corn and soy beans, sweet potatoes, peanuts, cowpeas, sorghum, Bermuda grass, bur clover and rape in the fall; with alfalfa almost alt the year, and with a gracing season lasting through the full twelve months, the farmer who plans and plants a succession of these crops and grazes his hogs systematically, who keeps disease out of his herd by vaccination and sanitation and who markets his hogs co-operatively or in carlots, will find pork production one of the farm enterprises on which he can depend for a quick, profitable income. Make tlMMf the advantages nature has given you. Start your hog crops no-;4u -will find all necessary information in, this issue of The ProgressivVFarmer to enable you to make a success of raising forage crop hogs. ." : . -v;.;,;, ..; tJX i &ead. Article on Cotton, Tobacco and Peanut Prices Pages 22 and 23 t
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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