1906. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
8o7 
My objections to other breeds are that the 
Duroc* have very little ham, and are gen¬ 
erally hard to fatten until they are a year 
old. The Berkshires have very much the 
same faults, and are vicious; they will 
eat a man up and never have very good 
feet or legs. t. p. sheehy. 
Hume, Missouri. 
I breed Poland Chinas because I think 
I can make more money raising this 
breed than any other, as there is more 
demand for them. The Poland China 
matures quicker and can be put on the 
market younger and with less feed than 
any other breed. I have only been breed¬ 
ing Poland Chinas for three years, but I 
have sold them as high as $335, and the 
general average of mv last sale was $72. 
I don’t believe I could have done as well 
with any other breed of hogs. 
Madison, Kans. w. j. honeyman. 
The Berkshires for Me. 
My reason for preferring the Berk¬ 
shire hog is because he is a better all¬ 
purpose animal for the farmer and breed¬ 
er to raise than any other breed. This 
may be rather a bold assertion, blit after 
more than 40 years of experience with 
the different breeds I do not hesitate to 
make the above statement, and for the 
following reasons: ' They are hardier, 
more active, and better able to take care 
of themselves, are better grazers, of a 
more quiet disposition and are more con¬ 
tented with their surroundings than any 
other hog. If you will have a regular 
time for feeding a Berkshire he will al¬ 
ways be on hand at the right time, and 
when he is through with his meal he 
goes away and you hear no more from 
him till next meal time. They furnish 
a better, firmer quality of meat, with 
more lean mixed with the fat than any 
other breed, hence the packers will al¬ 
ways pay a premium for them. I have 
numerous testimonials from the large 
packing houses of this country that they 
are the most desirable hog for the pack¬ 
ing house. They find fewer cripples 
among them, they are much easier han¬ 
dled, and they report that a good smooth 
carload of Berkshires will always top the 
market from 10 to 20 cents per hundred. 
One Kansas City buyer tolcT me that tf 
they could get all the good smooth Berk¬ 
shires they wanted to slaughter he would 
raise the market price 25 cents. The 
sows produce large uniform litters, they 
are careful mothers and the best of stick¬ 
lers. They have a short nose, broad face, 
erect ear. and a style and finish that is 
not found In any other breed. 
Pawnee City, Neb. r. j. congiton. 
I think Chester Whites and Duroc Jer¬ 
seys are coarse, flabby, rough and make 
poor quality of meat. Tamworths and 
other so-called bacon breeds will not fat¬ 
ten and are not adapted to a corn coun¬ 
try. Poland Chinas have degenerated, I 
think, not vigorous, litters too small, too 
much fat and too lhtle muscle. My hogs 
make most pork from least feed. Why? 
Because they are vigorous and active, and 
they hustle for a living, getting greens to 
keep them healthy and to balance their 
ration. Being active and muscular, their 
pork contains more streaks of lean meat. 
It is the very highest quality. Being ac¬ 
tive. the hogs are less liable to disease, 
and little pigs more free from accident. 
Sows prolific, careful mothers and good 
sticklers. Hogs can be fattened at any 
age. Also they make the very best of 
bacon and are rapidlv growing in favor 
for that reason and for their other supe¬ 
rior qualities. Thus I breed Berkshires. 
Westerville, Ohio. Arthur c. adams. 
The Red Hog Best. 
I lie Duroc hog has the ability to make 
a pound of pork on as small an amount 
of grain as any hog. By nature he is a 
better rustler, a hog that is better able 
to take care of himself than any other, a 
quality that has been essential on any 
farm. When I got my first Red sow I 
had the Poland Chi nas, and it was no¬ 
ticeable how the Red ones were up and 
about in cold weather when the black 
were piled up in the nest. This yery 
thing made it possible for the Red sow 
to produce a better and stronger litter 
°f pigs than the black, and they are bet¬ 
ter producers of larger fitters. They do 
not need the care that the white hog does 
to keep them from getting mangy, in this 
western country. geo. davis. 
Milford, Neb. 
Why I Breed the Chester Whites. 
T started with the Poland Chinas. My 
most serious objection to this breed was 
the small litters and their not being the 
kind of a rustler I thought a hog should 
be. I next tried the Duroc Jersey. This 
breed raised enough pigs at a fitter, but 
were too hard to fatten at an early age, 
and out of each fitter J would always 
have one or two runts that it seemed al¬ 
most impossible to make anything out 
of. I will say here that I did not find 
this true of the Poland Chinas. In rais¬ 
ing a good many pigs of this breed (Dll- 
rocs') it seemed that I could not get them 
to grow up even, though they were all 
of about the same age. This made it hard 
to sell them, as it did not look well to 
see a bunch of hogs of so many sizes 
when they were about an age. This breed 
did not suit me as well as the Poland 
Chinas. But I thought T would try one 
more breed before deciding which to 
raise, so I took the Improved Chester 
White, or 0. I. C., and here I think I 
have found the farmer’s friend. I have 
been in the purebred hog business for 
a number of years, both selling hogs 
on the market and for breeding purposes. 
I have noticed at the State fairs and at 
the stock shows that while the Chester 
Whites were not as numerous, their qual¬ 
ity was hard to equal. It has been my 
experience that I can obtain more of good 
quality in the same number of Chester 
Whites than in any other breed. The 
litters are large and even. The sows 
make the best of mothers, and the pigs, 
being stronger, are more able to stand 
the hardships during the first few hours 
of their fife, which we will all have to 
admit is the most critical period of their 
life, especially so when the weather is 
bad. They are a hog that will fatten eas¬ 
ily and attain a large size at an early 
age. At the same time they are good 
rustlers. In crossing the Chester White 
with either of the other breeds the pigs 
show entirely or almost entirely white, 
which is a good proof of their strong 
breeding qualities. d. p. phelps. 
Springfield, Neb. 
Chester White Lead. 
The great objection to Poland China 
hogs is the small number of pigs in fil¬ 
ters. This can be overcome by an ex¬ 
perienced breeder, but not by the average 
farmer in the corn belt. This is over¬ 
come in our white hogs, for they arc 
great producers. The Duroc-Jersey Red 
hogs do not bold their color, and they 
have not been bred long enough to be uni¬ 
form either in build or color, and they 
farrow too many runty pigs. I think in 
our white hogs we have the best all- 
’round hog for the farmer in the western 
country. __ i. m. fisher. 
Hastings, Neb. 
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