372 Western Live-stock Management 



or the other raised exclusively. The exception to this 

 rule is found in localities where milk condensers have 

 been developed so that there are few by-products of the 

 dairy business which can be utilized in pig feeding. 



Swine fattening differs from cattle fattening in that it 

 is conducted largely on the farm where the hogs were 

 raised, while in the case of cattle, the fattening process 

 is often carried on at a long distance from the farms 

 and ranges on which the cattle were grown. In the 

 West the practice of fattening hogs after beef cattle is 

 unknown, since hay-fed cattle contribute nothing to pigs 

 through their droppings, and grain feeding is not prac- 

 ticed here as in the Corn-Belt. Hence, hogs and beef 

 cattle do not supplement each other as do hogs and dairy 

 cattle. Many farms in the Willamette Valley carry 

 both hogs and sheep, but there is little relation between 

 the two lines of industry and neither of them contrib- 

 utes anything material to the other. Hogs are also 

 rapidly making a place for themselves on the large grain 

 farms of the West, for they fit in well with the common 

 systems of farming and they utilize the down grain and 

 the waste of the threshing yards. 



MAEKET CONDITIONS 



The time to sell pigs is when the price is good and not 

 many are on the market. Portland market reports for 

 the few years the market has been established, reveal 

 the fact that there are certain high spots and low spots 

 recurring each year at approximately the same time. 

 When the supply goes down, the price goes up, and 

 vice versa. This rule is not without exception but it 

 holds in a greater number of cases. The packer demands 

 the largest number of hogs during the months of Novem- 



