AMERICA'S PIG RAISING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 90, 10 January 1919, Page 8

AMERICA'S PIG RAISING

The various phases of thfl pig-raising business in America reflect improved conditions. . Not only has there been a great deal less of'hojj cholera iii tlio country during the lust year than in any of those immediately preceding, but also' breeders are apparently determined that it shall not- repeat its' costly visitations of tho past, for they bought and usod much more hog cholera prevention serum'in 1917.-8 than ever before. Ono hundred and nine employeesvof tho U.S. Department-of Agriculture are co-operat-ing with the farmor.i of the'country in this disease. What tho U.S. Department of Agriculture's appeal for 4 15. per cent, more pigs in 1918 is really accomplishing is.indicated by re<' ports that come from all over the, country.; TV example, in a single countyoin Mississippi, State which until a few years ago raised but little of its own meat, and that of only ordinary quality, a lied Cross Pig Club, with three thousand members, has produced six •hundred'''thousand pounds of pork far Army u°3 last year, and lias turned "ton thousand dollars over to the American Red Cross from the sale of stock. Thirtv ears of pigs ivill go to market this fall as the result of the activities of this one group of enthusiastic pig-raisers. Aloreover,.tlie nigs are of good typo, are being fed according to the best methods, and •with'tho* best material available. "We have pics Hint weigh four hundred pounds','" reports a county'npHit, under whose directions the work is being corned''on. "whereas some of their lifter mate? that are being raised according to oW-Hm'B methods <lo not wei«rh one hundred- Some of the hop« have gained 1181b. in a single mouth."