No. 4.] PIG RAISING, 415 



Marketing. 

 The question of iiiarketing is iin important one. Every 

 neighborhood, villao^e and even lar<>:e cities contain famihes 

 who salt down their yearly supply of pig pork as surely as 

 the year comes around. This class of custom pays the best 

 of any, and can be secured by a little advertising ; and if a 

 good, neat article is always forthcoming, this trade can be 

 kept for a lifetime. All who engage in this business will not 

 care to sell in a small way here and there, and so many of 

 the bunches must be sold by the carload ; and, as a rule, 

 choice lots are sought by rival firms, and almost without 

 exception most satisfactory prices are obtained. Personally, 

 I like the plan of culling out the best as they come on, and 

 disi)osing of them in small lots to hx^al markets or private 

 customers at ruling prices. Split the animal neatly from 

 end to end, wash perfectly clean with a profusion of cold 

 water, and your customers will praise the neat appearance 

 of your goods. The greatest amount of money would be 

 secured by curing the various parts of the animal in the 

 most up-to-date manner, and selling directly to those who 

 will consume the meat. 



Improvement to the Farm. 



The improvement to the farm because of the introduction 

 of this new industry can hardly be realized. Heavy crops of 

 horse hay can be grown, and the product turned into money. 

 Heavy crops of corn, oats and barley can and should be grown 

 for the support of the various animals kept. Up-to-date 

 machinery must be an important factor in carrying out these 

 plans, l)ecause of the scarcity of good farm help. In order 

 to make a beginning, an equipment in the way of stock and 

 accommodations umst be o-otten together, Ijecause brood 

 sows and perhaps some fattening pigs must be wintered over. 

 This wintering over of a good stock pays in more ways than 

 one. The improvement of the farm will be rapid from the 

 large accumulations of manure that must result from this 

 course of farming. As already mentioned, large amounts of 

 first-class horse hay can be grown and turned into money. 

 A gentleman in a near-by town recently told me that he had 



