A model swinery. 



SWINE AND SHEEP 



Swine. The production of pork is one of the profitable occupations of 

 New Jersey farmers. Potato and truck growers in South Jersey have dem- 

 onstrated that the hog is the most economical medium for converting seem- 

 ingly waste products into marketable commodities, and many of them are 

 now marketing their small potatoes and fruit culls through the porker. 

 The industry is also carried on to a considerable extent in the central and 

 northern sections, the farmers of Monmouth, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, 

 Morris, Hunterdon, Warren and Sussex Counties raising swine as a side 

 line of dairying and general farming. 



The increased acreage devoted to alfalfa is a boon to swine husbandry, 

 while the control of hog cholera by means of potent serum has done much 

 to make it profitable. 



Sheep. Some sections of the State offer peculiar advantages for the rais- 

 ing of sheep, the high, rolling lands especially making suitable pastures. 

 As a means of increasing fertility, destroying weeds and utilizing coarse 

 and rough fodders, the raising of sheep in New Jersey is desirable. There 

 is always a big demand for wool, and for lamb and mutton. 



Areas well adapted for the raising of any kind of live stock are available 

 at reasonable figures in all parts of the State. 



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