States. However, milk and cream can be produced on a much more economical 

 basis than in the colder climates where the winter feeding season is long, covering 

 a period of nearly six months, where feeds are made on high-priced land, and where 

 expensive barns and barn equipment are the limiting factors in the more profitable 

 production of these products. 



MISSISSIPPI HOGS BRING RECORD-BREAKING PRICES 



The "razorback" hog in Mississippi is ancient history, and should one be 

 seen now, it would be considered a curiosity, and would attract as much attention 

 as the pure-bred when first introduced into the State. In this work the children, 

 the Boys' and Girls' Pig Clubs, have played the most important part by raising 

 improved breeds of hogs and thus interesting their parents in breeding up their 

 flocks. To show what great strides have been made along this line, we quote from 

 the Manufacturers' Record, under the above caption: 



"Mississippi's claims to first place in the South as a hog-growing State took 

 a leap upward when a new world's record for average price per hog was made at 

 Fernwood recently at a sale attended by hog breeders from all over the United 

 States. 



The Enochs Farms began breeding fine Duroc-Jerseys only ten months ago. 

 On January 16, 1919, thirty hogs were sold there for a total of $25,560, an average 

 of $672.57, the highest average price on record prior to this sale being $510. 



Nineteen sows brought an average of $907.40. One of these sows sold for 

 $2,100, to make her home on another Mississippi stock farm. One went to Neb- 

 raska for $2,075, and three others brought as much as $2,000 each. 



A few days before the Enochs sale was held, 45 head of Durocs at the White 

 Farms brought $16,000, and the Pine Crest Farm closed a sale recently that 

 brought almost as high an average as these two, with many individuals bringing 

 $2,000 or better. 



At the Pine Crest sale one ten-months-old boar brought $2,300, a record price 

 for a pig of this age. His little mate brought $500. The mother of this high- 

 priced Duroc was bought by her present owner less than a year ago, and he has 

 netted $1,810 from the sale of her pigs, in addition to retaining possession of the 

 sow and seven pigs of her latest litter. Counting these, his investment in the one 

 sow has netted him about $3,600 in less than a year. 



These unusual prices clearly show that the South is raising champion hogs, 

 and that instead of the Southern breeder having to seek the Middle Western 

 owner, the situation is reversed. Some of the finest Duroc blood on earth is in 

 Mississippi herds, and breeders from the great hog-raising Middle West are using 

 Mississippi herd leaders, when a decade ago, a pure-bred Duroc hog was a curi- 

 osity in Mississippi. 



It is not alone from the sale of this fancy breeding stock that the State is 

 deriving a reputation for producing hogs. One county increased its hog shipments 

 from $24,000 in 1915 to $218,000 in 1918, and this is indicative of shipments from 

 the State to the great markets, especially during the war period. 



The business is firmly established in all sections of the State. It is interesting 

 to note that the Enochs and White sales took place in South Mississippi, in the 

 great cut-over pine section. 



"Pigs Is Pigs" 



"Pigs is pigs" no matter where they art- raised. But the important factor to be 

 considered is the cost of production. And in this respect it does make considerable 

 difference as to where the pig is raised. Mississippi has a long growing season and 

 a climate and soil that enable her farmers to grow a variety of crops suitable and 

 almost indispensable in the economic production of pork. The various clovers 

 and grasses make a splendid pasture, including Lespedeza and alfalfa; peanuts, 

 cow peas, soy beans, velvet beans, sweet potatoes, rape, winter rye and corn, all 

 of which grow abundantly and make it possible for Mississippi farmers to produce 

 pork and other meats cheaper than in sections where short growing seasons 

 prevail. 



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