10 SOUTHERN PORK PRODUCTION 



From this is seen the great increase in yield in future 

 crops by growing and grazing certain crops. Thus, when 

 we compute the value of an acre in grazing crops for 

 swine, we must not only figure on the amount of pork it 

 will produce, but also on the increase in the future pro- 

 ducing capacity of the land in cotton, corn and other 

 crops. From the above figures we can see, in the case of 

 growing and grazing a crop of peanuts followed by 

 cotton, that more cotton was produced in the two follow- 

 ing years than would have been produced had cotton been 

 in the land all three years. In addition, this cotton was 

 produced at two-thirds the cost required with land in 

 cotton three years straight. Thus in three years' time, 

 by growing a crop of peanuts and pasturing them off, 

 the farmer not only can make money on each crop of 

 cotton and on the pork produced on the peanuts, but in 

 the two years following, the increase in yield is more 

 than enough to make an extra crop of cotton without 

 additional cost. This increase in yield holds over lor 

 several years. Thus we can see that the growing of 

 crops and grazing them off not only offers a direct means 

 of profit, but provides for a much greater indirect profit 

 through increased soil fertility. It virtually means that 

 every man can have a fertilizer factory on his farm that 

 will not only supply him with nearly all of the fertilizers 

 he needs free of cost, but will itself be a source of revenue. 

 Hogs on diversified farms. At some time in the future 

 most of the farms of the South will be diversified farms, 

 farms from which some grain, some cotton, truck crops, 

 fruit, dairy products, and some meat animals will be sold. 

 A diversified farm is not complete without some hogs. 

 They can make pork out of what would be otherwise 

 wasted. They can save the grain left in the field after 



