. Southern pork production. oflabor as of quality. The average cotton negro has nointerest in live stock and has little natural ability in thecare, feeding and management of animals. This is dueto congenital conditions and environment. A fewnegroes that have been brought up with live stock aboutthem in early life may by proper training become excel-lent caretakers and manifest some interest and love forthe w^ork. While the labor question requires carefulconsideration, yet it is a difficulty that will decreasereadily with effort toward education. The average cottonnegro has not been trained to
. Southern pork production. oflabor as of quality. The average cotton negro has nointerest in live stock and has little natural ability in thecare, feeding and management of animals. This is dueto congenital conditions and environment. A fewnegroes that have been brought up with live stock aboutthem in early life may by proper training become excel-lent caretakers and manifest some interest and love forthe w^ork. While the labor question requires carefulconsideration, yet it is a difficulty that will decreasereadily with effort toward education. The average cottonnegro has not been trained to properly take care of swine. 8 SOUTHERN PORK PRODUCTION Classes of hogs grown in the South.—There is noreason why the pork produced in the South cannot beequal in every respect to that produced in the North andWest. To be sure, the hogs that are marketed in theSouth at present vary some from those marketed fromthe Corn Belt. The hogs that are produced in the Southdo not as a rule have the breeding, uniformity of size and. Typical unprofitable Coastal Plain pine-woods rooters. CourtesyS. M. Byars of South Carolina. condition of the northern and v^estern hogs. Also, agreat many swine from the Coastal Plain region of thesouthern states are fattened on peanuts or ground peas,with the result that the pork has an oily constituency,and is termed soft pork, which is greatly discriminatedagainst by most packers. When swine are fattened onpeanuts, it is usually the custom to top them off withcorn or other feeds to harden the fat. ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE SWINE INDUSTRY 9 When we consider breeding, the South is far behindother sections of America, and the proverbial razorbackis altogether too frequent. Improvement is rapidly tak-ing place and this drawback will soon be removed. Thenumber of hogs that are produced on each farm is, as arule, more or less limited, which means than uniformitywill be somewhat difficult to attain. The improvementmade in recent years in arriving at the most pro
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