16 SOUTHERN PORK PRODUCTION 



Average value of swine per head. The difference in 

 value of the hogs in the different states is well brought 

 out by the following figures, showing the value of hogs 

 per head for several states on January 1, 1916, according 

 to figures issued by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture : 



Texas $7.70 Kentucky $ 6.50 



Oklahoma 7.20 West Virginia 900 



Louisiana 7.30 Virginia 7.00 



Mississippi 6.20 South Carolina 8.50 



Alabama 7.60 North Carolina 7.80 



Tennessee 6.80 Maryland 8.50 



Georgia 7.70 New Jersey 12.80 



Florida 6.00 Delaware 9.00 



These figures show how the value of swine in a general 

 way declines as we move southward. This is largely due 

 to inferior breeding and feeding, both of which can be 

 remedied. One of the first efforts to be made in the 

 development of a swine industry for the South should be 

 to use pure-bred boars and to improve the feeding by 

 greater production of feeds suitable for hogs, and by the 

 application of modern methods of feeding. There is no 

 good reason why just as valuable hogs cannot be raised 

 in Florida as in New Jersey. 



