Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1891 — hogs vs. cattle. [ARTICLE]

hogs vs. cattle.

A correspondent of the Western Rnral, giving bis views on the compart atlve cost of raising hogs and sheep says that it will take twenty-five bushels of corn to raise and fatten a hog to SOO pounds, worth to-day $9.60, while the twenty-five bushels of corn would raise and fatten five sheep, worth $25. Now the sheep will pay for all its feed and care with its wooL What has the hog to offer for its care and keeping? Nothing but the “grunt,” and our pork packers, with all their ingenuity and skill, have not learned to utilize that I know from my experience in handling sheep for the past four years that money invested judiciously in sheep will pay for their feed and make one hundred per cent on the investment. My sheep have not failed to make over odo hundred per cent and one year by actual test made 125 per cent But this cannot be done in a haphazard way. It will not do to let hogs, cattle and horses run with flock. They want good and separate care, plenty of shelter, feed and water. Don’t be deceived into believing that sheep don’t want water- They do want water and want it every dav. .— - The Viscountess Kingsland, who recently died in London at an advanced asm, led a very sad life. She was the widow of ths last Viscount Kingsland, who died more than fifty years a go. Through the dishonesty of a trustee the viscount was reduced to extreme poverty, and was forced ito earn her living by her needle.