STATEMENTS OF HOG-RAISERS— JULIANA DE KOL. 



skin cracks and they are likely to get mangy. I have had my pigs for nearly three 

 years and they are as clean to-day as they were when I got them from the East. I hose 

 them and wash them and they like it, but I do not have a cesspool for them to wal- 

 low in. I will admit that they are a thinner-skinned hog than the black, but I think 

 it pays to keep hogs clean as well as it does other stock. Ordinarily they are sadly 

 neglected in this respect. 



I would recommend that a white or black hog should have no mud hole to go into, 

 and that stock-raisers would have a law unto themselves to that effect, for we all know 

 that microbes and germs of all kinds breed in stagnated water. There originates the 

 hog cholera, which spreads to clean hogs as well as those which are neglected. It is 

 my recommendation that where hogs are grazing on alfalfa, as they do in California, 

 or on other pasture, they have besides a drinking trough, another box or trough, say 

 two feet wide and eight feet long and six inches high, for them to wash in and keep cool 

 in. A pipe should lead the overflow out of the field where the hogs pasture. I have 

 been in the butchering business for over twenty years in California, having always kept 

 hogs at the slaughter house, and I do not remember that I ever lost a single hog. 



I do not think that alfalfa can take the place of grain for fattening. It is good 

 for stock hogs, but in my opinion it is too soft for good pork. As yet, however, I have 

 not had much experience with alfalfa. I prefer cooking or steaming the feed for pen 

 hogs. I do not crush the barley or wheat, but cook it with leavings of carrots or beets, 

 and when it is well cooked they get all the nutriment there is in it. I prefer wheat 

 to any other grain for fattening, as the hogs like it better than barley and they put on 

 fat quicker. In many places in this State corn is high and it does not pay to use it. 



ALEXANDER GORDON. 



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The following letter is from Charles C. Perkins, who believes that "this State is 

 as well adapted to hog-raising as any of the Eastern States": 



SACRAMENTO, California. 

 Gentlemen: 



In reply to your inquiry of recent date, will state first my belief, that, with sim- 

 ilar ca>e and equal knowledge, on the part of raisers, California is well adapted to 

 hog-raising as any of the Eastern States. Alfalfa makes most excellent hog feed. I have 

 no data from which to state how many can be raised on an acre throughout the year, 

 but alfalfa makes a very thrifty growth, and no doubt an acre of good alfalfa would 

 keep at least six head during the summer months, with some extra grain food during 

 the winter. 



When properly equipped for raising, thsre is money in them at 5 to 6 cents a pound 

 for pork. I do not believe that if proper attention is given to the business any dis- 

 eases would seriously interfere with the industry. 



I believe that the Berkshires are the best hogs to raise, with Poland Chinas a very 

 good second. I raise nothing but thoroughbred Berkshires for breeding purposes. 

 With the right kind of attention the increase ought to net $50 per sow a year at least, 

 and $100 at the most. I refer in this latter statement to purely fine stock. 



CHARLES C. PERKINS. 

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PRIVATE CAR OF THE QUEEN OF CALIFORNIA. 



"Honor to whom honor is due. Juliana de Kol, 'Queen of California,' traveled 

 from Denver to the World's Fair Cream and Butter Makers' Convention in her own 

 'sumptuously appointed private car' on the Rock Island Limited. Nothing is too good 

 for a cow whose 'record' is five times her weight in milk in one hundred days. 

 Owners of private cars, please notice." — December Issue of "Everybody's Magazine." 



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(Ed. Note. — Madam de Kol made the continuous Journey from California to St- Louis 

 and return in her private car, which was attached to the overland passenger limited 

 as a delegate from the California Promotion Committee.) 



