Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . rmers are satisfied withraising hogs as long as the price remains at an abnormal height, but a:soon as the market shows a downwardtrend they immediately see how quickljthey can flood the market with theiihogs and get cut of the business. A steady production is what is required in almost all lines. In thiway, when a market has been securedproviding we keep up the quality 0our offering, very little difficulty iexperienced in holding it. On thother hand if the British market findthat we can supply their needs onl;spasmodically, tliey will, out of
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . rmers are satisfied withraising hogs as long as the price remains at an abnormal height, but a:soon as the market shows a downwardtrend they immediately see how quickljthey can flood the market with theiihogs and get cut of the business. A steady production is what is required in almost all lines. In thiway, when a market has been securedproviding we keep up the quality 0our offering, very little difficulty iexperienced in holding it. On thother hand if the British market findthat we can supply their needs onl;spasmodically, tliey will, out of , turn to Llie country that can provide a steady supply. * * * Intelligent advertising is becominjrecognized more and more as a necessity by the progressive breeder of purebred livestock. Many of our breederwould experience little difficultymaking sales if they used a littlspace in the farm papers. * * * A practice that seems to be gettinrather popular among our livestocmen is that of keeping a very commobull for service on grade Rosa of Kilallen, Clydesdale Female Grand Champion at the Calgary Exhibition. Owned by N. A. Weir, Ohaton, Alta. will change, has landed many a manon the road. The use of pure-bred sires, theweighing and testing of milk, the grow-ing of roots, corn and alfalfa, thebuilding of a silo, the keeping ofbooks, are all factors in successfulfarming. Most men will admit thesethings are what should be done butmany keep putting them off. Scrub methods are accompanied, us-ually, by scrub stock, scrub farms,fences and everjthing in general. Let us get away as soon as possible from those things that tend to keep us in the unsuccessful class.* * * Authorities on the livestock situa-tion agree that Canada has a great op-portunity to develop and hold thebacon trade on the British market. Pre-war competitors are, at present,concerned chiefly with rebuilding theirhog population, that, during the war,was depleted to a great extent. The quality of American bacon
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