Ebook Profitable Pork Production

The first and most important point in pork pro duction is to have the right type of hog. This hog must meet the demands of the consumer. He must also produce large and economical gains so as to ih sure a profit for the producer. In other words, he must be a utility animal. The question of individu ality is of much more importance than breed. We have good hogs and also undesirable hogs in each and every one of our recognized breeds. Each indi vidual hog raiser must settle the question of breed for himself. The ideal farmer's hog is the animal which never lies to the assessor. He is farrowed after the assessor arrives this year and is marketed at a weight of three hundred pounds or better before he comes back next year. Such hogs are not all confined to any one breed nor are they all red or black or white in color. This is the kind of a hog which can convert feed into dollars and cents at a profit to his feeder.