Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1920 — FARM ANIMALS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FARM ANIMALS

VERMIN ON HOGS EXPENSIVE One Cent Per Pound Ie Added to Cost of Producing Pork by Presence of Insects. (irepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Lice add a cent a pound to the cost of producing pork. This has been found In teets just completed at the experiment farm of the United States department of agriculture at Beltsville, Md. Twenty-four lousy hogs were secured and divided into two lots as nearly equal as to quality of animals as possible. The two lots were managed and fed the same way with the exception that one lot was treated to prevent lice. The animals were weighed at regular intervals and at the end of the fattening period it was found that the hogs infested with

lice cost a cent a pound more to Catten than those which were free of the troublesome pest. The officials who had charge of this experiment give an Inferesting *side light in connection with securing the lousy animals. They communicated with some of the department’s field men, asking them to losate lousy hogs. It was some time before a reply was received to this surprising order. After the lousy hogs were purchased the owner learned why, and he Immediately built a dipping vat and began to treat the animals to prevent lice.

Champion Berkshire Barrow Free of Lice.