Identifier: livestockfarming00flor (find matches)
Title: Livestock farming in Florida along the lines of the Florida east coast railway..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Florida east coast railway company
Subjects: Livestock
Publisher: Saint Augustine, Fla., Land and industrial dept. of the Florida east coast railway (Flagler system)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ble hog for the South and while there may be some advan-tage in crossing this breed with the native hog in sections where theanimals must range over considerable territory for their feed becauseof lack of sufficient good forage grown for them, the pure-bred hogmust eventually triumph. That the Duroc-Jersey is a good hog is quite generally admittedand there is no question as to his being adapted to warm climates.Perhaps the following description of his good qualities by Geo. W. Page forty-seven i mini in iiiiiiiiiiiiiii inn i Him iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllllllllllllliiiiiiii iiiiinn inn LIVE STOCK FARMING IN FLORIDA ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM Bolds, of Louisana, in Modern Farming, will serve to give our read-ers a clear idea of why many experienced breeders think he is thebest hog for Florida: I have tried the pure-bred hog business with the Berkshire, PolandChinas, Yorkshires and Duroc-Jerseys, and had to admit from ex-
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Cowpea Hay in Leon County perience that the Duroc-Jersey was the hog for me to stay with atall times, as he is the hog for the poor man as well as the rich. Heis the hog that will take the place of cane and cotton for the South;he is the hog you can keep any place with a 26-inch high fence; heis a hog that is very gentle and can be handled by children; he isthe hog that will farrow and raise more good pigs than any otherbreed known; he is the hog that is considered the best rustler andstays in good condition on the smallest amount of feed; he is the hogthat can stand the heat of the Southern climate and not have a poolto swim in to survive; he is the handy hog that will stand morepunishment than any other. You can fatten him at any age, andyou can grow him in six to seven months, with your native grasseshere, so he will command a frame to take on fat at the rate of twoand one-half to three pounds per day, and at nine months old shouldweigh two hundred and seventy-five to three hundred

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