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Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Iredell County Farm News: Winter Hogs, New Creamery Route, Jan. 11, 1922

Ship In Hogs to Consume Surplus of Corn Held Here

A car load of hogs—150 animals—has just been received here by A.B. Johnston and Charles Dulin, who will use them to consume some surplus corn which is owned by the feeders. They believe, says County Agent Graeber, that the corn can be marketed better through the feeding of it to hogs than merely by selling the grain. The hogs were shipped form Quitman, Ga.

Several farmers of the county have profited recently by feeding hogs for the winter market, and among them are L.B. Patterson of near Stony Point and W.B. McClelland of Shiloh. Mr. Patterson is feeding 100 hogs now and plans to have them ready for the market by March 1.

From page 4 of the Statesville Sentinel, Wednesday, January 11, 1922.

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45 Patrons on New Creamery Route

Forty-five patrons are shipping cream from North Iredell to the Mooresville co-operative creamery, which has been established several years. W.F. Cowan, one of the progressive citizens of North Iredell, takes up the cream and brings it to Statesville for shipment to Mooresville. Mr. Cowan states that so many people have cream to ship that he has been compelled to progress from a Ford touring car to a truck.

He is of the opinion that a creamery could be made profitable n Statesville and is frank to say, with County Agent Graeber, that North Iredell could produce at least $500,000 worth of milk and butter each year if the farmers would devote their surplus time and extra feed to the production of milk for the creamery.

From page 4 of the Statesville Sentinel, Wednesday, January 11, 1922.

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