By W.W. Shay, Swine Division, State Farm Extension Service
Students now in school will live to see solid train loads of hogs in North Carolina going to market.
This business will belong to North Carolina, not necessarily because of the boll weevil invasion, but by right of conquest.
As compared with the corn-belt farmer, the North Carolina farmer can produce pork cheaper. He has a better market. He can hit the high market before the corn-belt farmer gluts it.
Immediately some one will question the first advantage stated above; he will say, what about that cheap corn? I can only answer: he raises it in North Carolina. If a low price for farm products is an advantage the cotton belt should be rolling in wealth.
We are all aware that a high order of intelligence is not necessary to grow cotton; it is a sort with that which attempts to starve cheap gains on a hog, and sells oily hogs out of the peanut fields on the lowest market of the year. Profits from such hogs are, as Ring W. Lardner would put it, about as conspicuous as a dirty finger nail in a third grader.
Profitable pork production is a man’s game, and it is worth his best effort. There is nothing in it for the man who is too indifferent to study the rules, or too indolent to mix and feed proper rations.
When the possibilities of pork production are properly understood throughout the cotton belt, the unpainted shack will give place to the modern comfortable home, and happy smiles will replace care-worn expressions.
From the front page of The News Reporter, Littleton, Halifax County, April 29, 1922
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