Identifier: southernporkprod00ewin (find matches)
Title: Southern pork production
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Ewing, Perry Van
Subjects: Pork industry and trade Swine
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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pigs in that they come at a season of the year whenthey will have an abundance of feeds to grow on duringthe summer and an abundance to fatten on in the fall.Fall pigs come at a time when the feeds for growingcome high and when the grazing feeds for fattening atan early age are almost not to be had. The result is thatfall pigs must be kept longer than spring pigs beforemarketing, and the cost is thereby increased that much.A properly equipped breeder will arrange for nearly asmany pigs to be dropped in the fall as in the spring andwill arrange to get them off to market as early aspossible in the summer or early fall, when prices aregenerally gqod. The advantages of spring pigs over fall 162 SOUTHERN PORK PRODUCTION pigs are thus largely offset by a slightly cheaper feed inthe fall and early winter, and by being able to get themto market before the spring pigs at a time when hogs aregenerally a little higher. One should lay specialemphasis on the supply of feeds for the late winter and
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Grazing lots make fall litters as profitable as spring farrowingson the farm of Joe R. Martin in Georgia. spring months, and by a proper system of feed supplythe fall pigs can be made just as profitable as spring pigs. Early castration best.—Many hog raisers let the pigsget too old before castrating. The castrating should bedone at about five weeks of age, for the reason that thehog is then easier to hold, loses but little blood, and seemsbut little disturbed by the operation. This early castra-tion also prevents miscellaneous breeding and breedingtoo young. The details of the operation are given in thenext chapter. SWINE MANAGEMENT 163 Young vs. old sows.—There is but little differencebetween the pigs of young and old sows. Owing to thefact that gilts with the first litter do not usually do aswell as older sows, it seems advisable where possible touse sows, other things being equal. It is nearly alwaystrue that bred gilts can be obtained at lower figures thanolder tried sows, and

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