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people. The same is true of pork : — the EngHsh market demands 

 a certain type of hog and demands it put up in a certain way. 

 Other countries are outselling us in pork the same as in butter 

 from I to 3 cents a pound because they are furnishing it to them 

 in the manner in which they want it. That is the profit that has 

 been getting away from us because we do not put up our wares 

 in the packages in which they want to receive it. If it makes 

 them feel any better, we should cater to their particular wants. 



Of the breeding of hogs, I am learning more and more every 

 day and every year. I conceived the idea at one time that 

 crossing a certain Hampshire hog, strictly a bacon type hog, 

 with the lard hog would produce very good pigs. I ne^^er use 

 anything put purebred stock. I noticed that a lot of my pigs 

 with that kind of a cross were a mighty inferior pig, some of 

 them would have no hams, some of them would have no backs, 

 they would not be either lard nor bacon hogs ; so when I thought 

 that I was doing a great stroke, T was simply kidding myself. 

 (Laughter). There was nothing to it. 



One thing I am very desirous of finding out, and have not 

 vet 1)een able to do, is the cost of producing a pound of bacon 

 hog, or pork of the lard type. My oj^inion is the lard type, — 

 that is the way it looks to me as far as I have gone and I will 

 have those figures another year, — is the most profitable one for 

 us to raise. Of course, we are not getting the premiums for 

 the bacon hog that we should get. Various men use hogs in va- 

 rious ways; for instance, cattle feeder wants a hog that can do 

 some rustling and any of the bacon type are pretty good rustlers, 

 and that is not so with the lard type. My opinion is that the 

 lard type is the hog for us to raise unless we could get prices 

 that would pay us for the difference in the cost of producing too 

 pounds of bacon and lOO pounds of lard types. 



Q : What is your experience in this regard ? You buy 

 some hogs fed buttermilk and you raise some. Now do you find 

 any difference between pigs that come from buttermilk fed stock 

 and those not accustomed to that kind of feed when you put 

 them on feed under this buttermilk system? 



A : I made just such an experiment last fall. I noticed 



