HOGS FOR MARKET— WHERE THEY WANT MEN. 



profitable in connection with dairies, as there is much waste from the dairy which makes 

 a ready fattener for hogs. A herd of swine is the usual accompaniment to a large dairy, 

 and there is no reason why hog-raising in this State should not be conducted on a basis 

 large enough to supply completely not only the demand for dressed hogs, but for hog 

 products, such as bacon, hams and lard. The swine supply raised in connection with 

 dairying will steadily increase as the dairies themselves become larger. 



Besides alfalfa, California has abundance of other fodder for swine. After the grain 

 is cut, the stubble proves a splendid fattener. Hogs come from the great grain fields 

 of California literally "hog fat." California bacon is "striped like the American flag," 

 to use the words of a local dealer. It contains more meat and less fat than the East- 

 ern bacon. Then, too, there are great stretches where corn is abundantly raised in 

 California, and those who particularly desire to raise corn-fed hogs can do so to their 

 heart's content. Take the moist lowlands from the valleys north of the Bay of San 

 Francisco southward to San Diego. Here is raised the finest corn in the world. These 

 valleys are near enough to the coast to catch something of atmospheric humidity from 

 the ocean and still they possess summer heat enough to suit this warmth-loving plant. 

 Corn reaches great dimensions in California, and while dry heat sometimes puts corn 

 in distress which irrigation cannot wholly reclaim, there is much land in California 

 where corn and corn-fed hogs can be raised. 



Iowa is a great hog raising State but when its people talked with Mr. Geo. W. 

 Pierce, who visited the East for the California Promotion Committee, acknowledged 

 California gives greater profits on swine per head. Mr. Pierce found at Clarinda, la., 

 farmers feeding their hogs $15 worth of corn to keep them alive during the bitterly 

 cold winters and selling the hogs for $20, counting their time and labor for nothing. 

 Yet California is buying Eastern swine and poultry at a cost immensely greater than 

 we could produce the same here. The reason for this is that the people of Iowa and of 

 the Clarinda section have learned the profits of hog raising. They apply themselves 

 to this class of work and ship their products to California, notwithstanding the heavy 

 freights. 



What California wants is more hogs and more factories to treat hog products so 

 that we will not have to import seven-eighths of our hams, bacon, lard and hog 

 products. 



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•WHERE THEY WANT MEN" 



"Out in California there is an organization known as the California Promotion Com- 

 mittee. 



"The California Promotion Committee wants men, men who will cultivate small 

 farms and raise the products of the soil. 



"The California Promotion Committee out in California is composed of public 

 spirited men. It is the central organization of 140 Chambers of Commerce in that 

 State. Its funds are raised by subscription. It has nothing to sell. 



"There are thousands of acres of fertile land in California that are unsettled. The 

 California Promotion Committee wishes to bring the landless man to the manless 

 land. It has received word from the owners of more than sixty huge ranches that 

 they will subdivide for the benefit of incoming settlers. It would take a man half a 

 day to ride across some of the big California ranches. 



"The terms are reasonable. The land is cheap. In many cases work will be taken 

 as part payment. 



"Commissioner of Immigration Sargeant says a great many of the immigrants who 

 arrive at Ellis Island with some money, fall the victims of sharpers, and eventually 

 drift back penniless to the cities. These immigrants help fill the sweat shops. 



"They would be more useful citizens if in the country. 



"In California alfalfa grows green the year round. Already 350.000 acres are III 

 alfalfa, and a million acres could be placed under cultivation. Farmers' Bulletin No. 

 31, of the United States Department of Agriculture, pronounces alfalfa the best nat- 

 ural forage. Cattle, hogs and stock of all kinds thrive on It."— From the "New York 

 American" and "Chicago American" October 27, 1904. 



