Feeding Hogs foe Market SI 



will bring in, and' quite a large number of hogs might be fed 

 for market on every farm even if it be a small one, and if 

 one will be sure to have his hogs inoculated with both the 

 virus and serum, known as the simultaneous treatment, be- 

 fore they are even exposed toi cholera, he need have no fears 

 of losing them, provided the work is properly done. They 

 may become slightly sick from the treatment at about 14 

 to 15 days after being treated, but it will soon pass off and 

 the death loss should be but little if any. The writer 

 knows one party that had 3000 inoculated and lost but ten 

 from the treatment. In our own herd in 1913 we inoculated 

 219 and lost but four which were quite young and probably 

 got a little larger dose of virus than they could carry. 



This growing and feeding of hogs for market should be- 

 come more common on the average farm. Too many 

 farmers have the idea that the danger of cholera is too 

 great to make any attempt at the- growing of hogs for 

 market, which is all wrong. There is nothing better than 

 to be able to ship to market at one time, a carload of choice 

 finished hogs, which will always bring in a large amoimt 

 of money with seemingly little expense. 



Value of a Uniform Carload of Pork Hogs. 



If one thinks that all kinds of hogs will sell for the same 

 price on the market, just let him ship a carload of even 

 weight and uniformly colored pigs to any market and watch 

 them sell in comparison to a load of mixed breeding, colors 

 and weights. He will then be fully convinced that it pays 

 and pays well to use a good pure-bred boar for producing 

 pork hogs. The writer once shipped a carload of short 

 year-old hogs to the Chicago market that averaged 409 

 lbs. on the scales there. The shrinkage was but 80 lbs., 

 on the whole load, and they brought 25c per 100 lbs. above 

 the top of. the market that day. 



Why? Simply because they were as alike as a lot of 

 beans, and were so well finished that there was little shrinli 

 in them. 



It is a well known fact that quality counts in any market 

 and with any kind of stock or other produce of the farm. 



