Mississippi Is Raising Champion Hogs 



farms on the cut-over lands of Mississippi on which there are prize-winning bulls, 

 one breeder having paid $20,000 for a pure-bred Hereford bull. 



Hogs 



Hogs are a necessary live-stock accompaniment to cattle. They are as free 

 from the ordinary diseases as those anywhere. Having mild seasons, little loss of 

 pigs and abundant forage and feed crops for hogs, you need but look to the actual 

 increased production of swine in Mississippi to be convinced of the possibility of 

 hog raising as a business venture, which is evidenced by two sales of pedigreed 

 hogs held in February, 1919, where the average price for sows was over $300 at 

 one sale and over $600 at the other. 



Sheep 



Sheepmen have commenced to run flocks on cut-over lands. The consei.-sus 

 of opinion is that it is better to purchase native flocks, or flocks in territory of 

 similar altitude, import pedigreed rams and build to high standards by cross 

 breeding. In this way, to begin with, you measurably solve the knotty problems 

 of adaptability to climate, feed and grass. Experienced flock masters do not run 



Specimen of Sheep to Be Found on the Cut-Over Lands of Mississippi 



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