ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE SWINE INDUSTRY 



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harvest; they will eat the left-over cottonseed and waste 

 of culls from all sorts of trucking operations, fallen 

 fruits containing the larvie of injurious insects will be 

 utilized, the skim milk and buttermilk can be made into 

 pork, and the droppings of other live stock will be 

 gleaned for undigested food materials. As converters 

 of otherwise waste products into something with a mar- 

 ket value hogs are supreme. 



Southern tendency of pork production. — The south- 

 ward tendency of pork production is not better illustrated 

 than by reference to the report of the Thirteenth Census. 

 In this we find that during the decade of 1900 to 1910 the 

 West Central states, comprising the greater portion of 

 the Corn Belt, lost 12,9 per cent in number of hogs, while 

 the south Atlantic divisions gained 7.2 per cent in the 



Moultrie Packing Plant, Moultrie, Ga. 



same period. The southern tendency of pork production 

 is shown in several ways. A study of the several cen- 

 suses shows that there has been a continual rise in value 

 per head of swine for the several southern states, which 

 rise has been greater than in the other sections. Also, 



