Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Feeding Hogs in the South
It is sometimes claimed that hogs can not be raised and finished at a profit in the South since corn has advanced in price. The farmer is often told that he can buy his pork cheaper than he can make it. While pork has not advanced in price as rapidly as has corn, still it must be remembered that the cheapest side meat costs the consumer from 14'to 15 cents a pound, and that the shoulders and hams cost from 18 to 22 cents a pound. It Is no doubt true that the southern farmer who imitates his northern brother in his pork-making opera tions could buy the meat cheaper than he could make it. But if he takes his own conditions as he finds them and uses these conditions intelligently, he can produce pork cheaper than it is possible to pro duce it in other sections. But he can not compete with those por tions of the country where corn is comparatively cheap if he also feeds corn alone. The southern farmer must economize in the use of this feed on account of its high price. The South, in fact, feeds too much corn, as a sole feed, to-hogs; there are cheap feeds which should be used along with corn.
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